December 2010
2 posts
July 2010
2 posts
June 2010
16 posts
“You think when you wake up in the mornin’ yesterday don’t count. But yesterday...”
– No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being...”
– Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes) (via somesecretstories) (via rememo)
May 2010
49 posts
“Life, I really believe, is about falling in love. With ideas, with stories, with...”
– - herquotes.blogspot.com (via brayofmyheart) (via lajoiedevivre)
“Simplicity, as a virtue, knows only what is real. It will not tolerate useless...”
– Wayne Teasdae (via becomingminimalist) (via simpleandbold)
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and...”
– William Henry Channing
NYTimes Launches Philosophy Blog
“The Stone”:
Even before Thales fell into the well, and the ancient Greeks laid the foundation for Western philosophy, humans were engaged in the search for wisdom — a deeper understanding of their world, the universe and their own minds. Despite the rapid changes to our society and daily life, that pursuit continues. But what does philosophy look like today? Who are philosophers,...
Writing well was almost the same as thinking well, and thinking well was the next thing to acting well. All moral discipline, all moral perfection derived from the soul of literature, from the soul of human dignity, which was the moving spirit of both humanity and politics. Yes, they were all one, one and the same force, one and the same idea, and all of them could be comprehended in one single...
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