Jan
25
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
Leonard Cohen (via musingsofalibertine)
quotes for intellectuals
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“I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.”
Thomas Edison
Jan
24
“The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.”
Rumi
Jan
19
“You have slept for millions and millions of years.
Why not wake up this morning?” Kabir (1440–1518), mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. By way of the incomparable Whiskey River.
Why not wake up this morning?” Kabir (1440–1518), mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. By way of the incomparable Whiskey River.
Jan
18
”…the biggest producers of content on the Internet are not Google and Yahoo—they’re us. We’re the people getting policed.”
This is a must watch.
Jan
14
“If, in everyday life, you are asked about continued existence after death by one of those people who would like to know everything but refuse to learn anything, the most appropriate and approximately correct reply is : ‘After your death you will be what you were before your birth.’ For this answer implies that it is preposterous to demand that a species of existence which had a beginning should not have an end; in addition, however, it contains a hint that there may be two kinds of existence and, correspondingly, two kinds of nothingness.”
Schopenhauer
(via funeral)
Jan
12
“If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.”
Jules Renard
Jan
11
“Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.”
Charles Bukowski
(via missingthejackandtheace)
Jan
8
“My understanding of truth can change from day to day and my commitment must be to truth rather than to consistency.”
Ram Dass
(via ikenbot)
“It’s funny, isn’t it?
What?
The big, beautiful, noisy world. Everything that can happen.
Yeah. It’s funny.” A Home at the End of the World
What?
The big, beautiful, noisy world. Everything that can happen.
Yeah. It’s funny.” A Home at the End of the World
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