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"To expect bad men never to do bad things is insensate; it is hoping for the impossible. To tolerate their offences against others, and expect none against yourself, is both irrational and arbitrary."…

" in moments of anger, let the thought always be present that loss of temper is no sign of manliness, but that there is more virility, as well as more natural humanity, in one he shows himself gentle …

“The problem is that the desire to change yourself is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself.” — Pema Chödrön

Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Inhuman: Reflections on Time

"In what we call thinking the mind isn’t ‘directed’ but suspended. You don’t give it rules. You teach it to receive. You don’t clear the ground to build unobstructed: you make a little clearing where …

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"He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived." Chinese Proverb

You have to act as if it were possible you could radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. Angela Davis

I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face. — Franz Kafka

"Integrity has no need of rules." (Albert Camus)

"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think." (…

"Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has." (Alphonse Karr)

"It's common for nobody to be happy with their lot, however good, or to be unhappy with their intellect, however bad." (Baltasar Gracián, 'The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence')

"Sophisticated people can hardly understand how vague experience is at bottom, and how truly that vagueness supports whatever clearness is afterwards attained." (George Santayana)

"If we lived alone in a featureless desert we should learn to place the individual grains of sand in a moral or aesthetic hierarchy." (Michael Frayn)

"We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained." (Go…

"A life, admirable at first sight, may have cost so much in imposed liabilities, chores, and self-abasement, that, brilliant though it appears, it cannot be considered as other than a failure. Another…

"A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve." (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

"Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable." (Nietzsche)

"The best way out is always through." (Robert Frost)

"Tell yourself, when you feel exasperated and out of all patience, that this mortal life endures but a moment; it will not be long before we shall one and all have been laid to rest." (Marcus Aurelius…

"Do not be aggrieved, then, if things are not always to your liking. As long as they are in accord with nature, be glad of them, and do not make difficulties; if they are not, then find out what your …

Murakami

Murakami When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at four a.m. and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for ten kilometers or swim for fifteen hundred meters (or do both), then I …

"Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?" (Isaac Asimov)

"Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock." (Alvin Toffler)

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the thing, however, is to change it." (Karl Marx)

"Undertake what's easy as it it were hard, and what's hard as it it were easy. In the first case, so that confidence doesn't make you careless; in the second, so that lack of confidence doesn't make y…

"Although the world is full of fools, nobody thinks, or even suspects, that they are one." (Baltasar Gracián, 'The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence')

"Things in our life simply don't go according to set decisions. One glides into a new epoch, and the so-called 'decision' is as a rule only the final summing-up of items looking fine entered into the …

"It is not certain that everything is uncertain." (Blaise Pascal, 'Pensées')

"The good life can be achieved to perfection by any soul capable of showing indifference to the things that are themselves indifferent." (Marcus Aurelius, 'Meditations' Book XI)

"It may be that the things you fret and fume to pursue or avoid do not come to you, but rather you go to them. Let your judgements of them, then, remain in suppression; they for their part will make n…

Valeria Luiselli, Sidewalks

Hooked on the biblical myth of Paradise, we'd like to believe that the names of things are precise and imperative, that there's a word in the core of each thing and that pronouncing it is the equivale…

Joseph Pieper. “Leisure: The Basis of Culture.”

Leisure as The Basis for Learning A reading of Josef Peiper “For assuming all too rashly, for the moment, that our new house is going to be built in the Western tradition—a thing so arguable that it m…

Kate Crawford

Every photograph from an Apple iPhone is fundamentally an AI image. Every photograph taken by an iPhone camera is actually many frames with different exposure levels melded together as a composite. An…