September 2011
340 posts
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in...
– Gustave Flaubert (via paintasyoulike)
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Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of...
– Isaac Asimov, American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books (1920-1992), interviewed by Bill Moyers in 1988, cited in Maria Popova, Isaac Asimov on Science and Creativity in Education, Brain Pickings...
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We’re in a free fall into future. We don’t know where we’re going. Things are...
– Joseph Campbell (via theantidote)
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his...
– Charles Péguy (via wwnorton)
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always...
– Albert Einstein (Ideas and Opinions)
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they...
– Anais Nin
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She beckoned to him, shining and silver, and he knew he must go: unafraid, not...
– Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms (thank you, 1ofmanynames)
Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and often times we...
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via sweetpeapath, conflictingheart)
You will die and find out everything — or cease asking.
– Tolstoy
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the...
– John Steinbeck