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"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…

Bret Victor

You can choose to sleepwalk through life and accept the path that's been laid out for you. You can choose to accept the world as it is. But you don't have to. If there's something in the world you fee…

Here for the Wrong Reasons | Charles Broskoski

"Algorithms pervert one’s attention." — Charles Broskoski (https://www.charlesbroskoski.com/), "Here for the Wrong Reasons (https://www.are.na/editorial/here-for-the-wrong-reasons)"

I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable | Miski Omar | The Guardian

The burnout of our age, Han writes, doesn’t come from external repression but from internal overproduction. We are not crushed by the lash; we are fried by the light, the constant buzz of notification…

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Taste Is the New Intelligence - by stepfanie tyler

“Everything we come into contact with has the potential to influence our taste. So the art of living well includes the art of feeding your input stream.” — Rick Rubin

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“the aesthetic is an allegory for the production” —Fredric Jameson

— David Lynch

“I’m just, you know, kind of happy in the doing of things. Even just having a great cup of coffee is happiness. Getting an idea, or realizing an idea. Working on a painting…working on a piece of sculp…