Showing posts with label knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knowledge. Show all posts

Sunday, September 19, 2010

don't talk.


This is not something that can be said.  That whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent. - Ludwig Wittgenstein



















Sunday, August 1, 2010

Happiness is between

I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great. – Willa Cather


Wednesday, July 14, 2010

99.9% Pure Nonself, Ivory Pure Nonself.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself, And there isn't one. - Wei Wu Wei

Monday, June 7, 2010

At break of day...


At daybreak, gazing at the moon,
So alone in the sky,
I finally knew myself all the way.
Nothing now left out. - Izumi Shikibu (10th century)




Saturday, May 22, 2010

Emotions just are... don't run from them


Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look. - Pema Chodron


Wednesday, April 21, 2010

definition of God


The problem of evil has bedeviled many religions since their birth. If God is all good and all powerful, either he allows evil to flourish (which means he is not all good), or else he struggles against evil (which means he is not all powerful). – Jonathan Haidt




Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Q and No A?


Have patience with everything unresolved and try to love the questions. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Wanted: a few more smart people


Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. - H. L. Mencken


 

Box office

Although Pearl Harbor cost approximately US$132 million to film and promote, it grossed a relatively modest US$200 million at the domestic box office, but it soon earned a respectable US$450 million worldwide.[2] The film was ranked the seventh highest-earning picture of 2001.



Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The World is Flat!! The World is Flat!!


An unspeakable horror seized me. There was darkness; then a dizzy, sickening sensation of sight that was not like seeing; I saw space that was not space: I was myself, and not myself. When I could find voice, I shrieked aloud in agony, “Either this is madness or it is Hell.” “It is neither,” calmly replied the voice of the sphere, “it is Knowledge; it is Three Dimensions: open your eye once again and try to look steadily.” I looked, and behold, a new world! – Edwin Abbott, Flatland



For the record... the last 2 minutes of the song are, in my opinion, two of the most beautiful moments in all of music.