February 2011
January 2011
“No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific...”
– David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays (via: mianoti & ohnonotme)
Oh wow…
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“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
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The National - 29 Years
Not slow show.
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“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.”
– Milan Kundera (via calvitron)
Bringing Oxytocin Into The Room: Notes On The... →
by Kenneth Cloke
January 2009
“We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.” Anais Nin
While people in conflict commonly refer to facts, behaviors, feelings, personalities, or events, for the most part we ignore the deeper reality that these are processed and regulated by the nervous system, and are therefore initiated, resolved, transformed, and transcended ...
“If our knowledge were represented by the radius of a circle, as we increase our...”
– Bear Heart (via msadventures)
Thinking like an octopus | Harvard Gazette →
Octopuses have large nervous systems, centered around relatively large brains. But more than half of their 500 million neurons are found in the arms themselves, Godfrey-Smith said. This raises the question of whether the arms have something like minds of their own. Though the question is controversial, there is some observational evidence indicating that it could be so, he said. When an octopus...
“I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for.”
– James Stewart, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (via thoughtsdetained)
Cat 'ordered to do jury service in US' →
“Mirar fijamente al sol hasta quedar ciegos de a poco, hasta que su luz nos llene...”
– Mr. No (via infinitasabiduria)
“Mirar fijamente al sol hasta quedar ciegos de a poco, hasta que su luz nos llene...”
– Mr. No (via infinitasabiduria)
“No president should fear public scrutiny of his program, for from that scrutiny...”
– John F. Kennedy (via azspot)
“No president should fear public scrutiny of his program, for from that scrutiny...”
– John F. Kennedy (via azspot)
“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize...”
– Bertrand Russell (via libraryland)
“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize...”
– Bertrand Russell (via libraryland)
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity.
We have...”
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“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity.
We have...”
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