February 2012
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First by reflection, which is noblest;...
– Confucius (via thelittlephilosopher)
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I try to tell myself at night
when the dusty old pictures are out of sight
that I think I will be alright
Don’t come closer morning light…
one of the most complicated nights of my life?...
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in the afternoon, you're out on the stone and...
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization...
– Bertrand Russell in “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell” (via philphys)
I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest - expecting a...
– Bret Easton Ellis; American Psycho (via there—-andbackagain)
“But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go...
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends...
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via parliecharker)
The writing on a sticker that’s on my laptop has completely faded. so sad. it was a great sticker.
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Solitary Gun, by Rogue Wave →
no one says they’re agnostic without having thought about it. perhaps I should consider…
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“And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.”
from Lord of the Rings. This is why Tolkien must be one of the greatest writers. ever.
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to...
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via literaturesluts)
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Life is simple in the moonlight
The Strokes
Into The Universe: Valentine's Day Pick-up Lines... →
thesociologist:
Anselm: You’re the greatest conceivable being, baby. I’m glad you exist.
Aquinas: Hey remember when I said, “As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in…
LOL at Hume, Plato, Aristotle, JS Mill, Locke…
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I found them like flowers in a...
from Tron
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only static is a comfort
By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the...
– Henry David Thoreau (via psychadeli-sandwitch)
What have I done that I should be alive?
from Living, by Harold Monro
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before...
– Thucydides (via thelittlephilosopher)
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay...