September 2011
37 posts
“Corporations are getting better and better at seducing us into thinking the way...”
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (via nevver)
August 2011
31 posts
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Reuters: "Astronomers discover planet made of... →
evanfleischer:
The jaw drops.
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“Certainly, up to now whatever I have accepted as fully true I have learned...”
– Descartes (via monsta)
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thedeadline:
You can assemble factual truth brick by brick. But there’s also emotional truth. How people feel may not be rooted in fact, but it can be true to them, and it guides their actions. The first one’s hard, but it’s a lot easier than the second.
—C.J. Chivers, speaking to Esquire.
5 tags
Seven Blunders of the World
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle
- Mahatma Gandhi
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“On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people...”
– John Green, Paper Towns pg. 198 (via hanthelion)
