November 2011
Lapidarium notes: Symmetry: A ‘Key to Nature’s... →
aminotes:
Symmetry: A ‘Key to Nature’s Secrets’ The five regular polyhedra. Plato argued in Timaeus that these were the shapes of the bodies making up the elements: earth consists of little cubes, while fire, air, and water are made of polyhedra with four, eight, and twenty identical…
YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF: Victor Hugo's alphabet →
youmightfindyourself:
Have you noticed how picturesque the letter Y is & how innumerable its meanings are? The tree is a Y, the junction of two roads forms a Y two converging rivers, a donkey’s head & that of an ox, the glass with its stem, the lily on its stalk & the beggar lifting his arms are a Y. This…
“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not...”
– Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
July 2011
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly...”
– Sylvia Plath (via nonchalant-beatnik)
Lapidarium notes: ☞ Why we must remember to delete... →
aminotes:
☞ Why we must remember to delete – and forget – in the digital age
“Human knowledge is based on memory. But does the digital age force us to remember too much? Victor Mayer-Schönberger argues that we must delete and let go. (…) “Quite literally, Google knows more about us than we can…
June 2011
“Everything comes from experience; yet not from actual experience, reiterated by...”
– Carl Jung, part 4: Do archetypes exist? | Mark Vernon | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk (via myserendipities)
Let’s look at the bright side: coming in second means that I won’t have to give a speech.
March 2011
Lapidarium notes: ‘We’ vs ‘Others’: Russell Jacoby... →
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‘We’ vs ‘Others’: Russell Jacoby on why we should fear our neighbors more than strangers
Titian, “Cain and Abel”, Venice
“Orientalism was ultimately a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between the familiar (Europe, the West, ‘us’) and the…
Generation Y: Catch Them If You Can →
Rather than being slaves to television or radio sets or newspapers and the content they pump out, the members of generation Y are slaves to devices allowing them to choose the media content they receive. How do you reach youth? That is the question exercising the minds of many. It was easy when they were part of the mass market. But now they are absorbed by the more opaque digital world. ...
“You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light...”
– Dag Hammarskjold
“The point of public relations slogans like “Support Our Troops” is that they...”
– Noam Chomsky (via illuminatedbeing)
I have so much respect for him.
(via exhilarating)
“To all our listeners, this is what I have to say - God bless you all. And as for...”
– The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
Pirate Radio
(via movie-lines)
jesuisperdu:
Brand New - Jesus Christ It’s a...
Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle... →
itnumberpi:
Ever since a man in Tunisia burnt himself to death in December 2010 in protest at his treatment by police, pro-democracy rebellions have erupted across the Middle East. The Guardian’s interactive timeline traces key events.
That moment when someone says something so insane...
interestinglyenough:
“While enthusiasts and detractors will continue to empty entire dictionaries...”
– House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski (2000)
letsindulgelikehemingway asked: This is one of my favorite blogs. It's refreshing to see intelligent (and not so cheesy) quotes in such quantity. You've got a great thing going here, keep up the good work!
Cheers,
Thomas
Cheers,
Thomas
nathanielstuart asked: Well well well. Where on earth have you been?
“[W]hat if dream is language, is language the way language is language:...”
– The Annandale Dream Gazette
via The Noumenon Revelation: This morning I woke up at 4 a.m. I woke up writing a letter in my head.
(via theantidote)
“I couldn’t get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a...”
– Charles Bukowski (via brokenmachine)
January 2011
“Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most...”
– - Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 1871
Advice To A Son by Ernest Hemingway
Never trust a white man, Never kill a Jew, Never sign a contract, Never rent a pew. Don’t enlist in armies; Nor marry many wives; Never write for magazines; Never scratch your hives. Always put paper on the seat, Don’t believe in wars, Keep yourself both clean and neat, Never marry whores. Never pay a blackmailer, Never go to law, Never trust a publisher, Or you’ll...
December 2010
“I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the...”
– Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (via libraryland)
“Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.”
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are...”
– Fernando Pessoa
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via dagnytaggart)
November 2010
“I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or...”
– Basil W. Maturin
“Time is a jealous lover. If you mistreat it, you can start over, but you never...”
– The Art of Non-Conformity » Killing Time (via bridgettelizabeth)
“I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.”
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
[Guilty by association]
“Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a...”
– Lord Chesterfield
“The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on...”
– Willmott
October 2010
“We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving...”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre,
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;...”
– W. B. Yeats, the second coming
“A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing...”
– CIA Manual
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and...”
– Thomas Paine
“It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to...”
– Thomas H. Huxley
“As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty...”
– Jonathan Swift
The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy →
by David McRaney
The Misconception: You take randomness into account when determining cause and effect.
The Truth: You tend to ignore random chance when the results seem meaningful or when you want a random event to have a meaningful cause.
Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were both presidents of the United States, elected 100 years apart. Both were shot and killed by assassins who were...