The Life, the Universe, and Everything
What was my homework, again?
I decided, at least for a while, to follow Goethe’s advice.
Quote of the month.
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Making a list:
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Infatuation?
I love this word even though it seems to be somewhat an exaggeration for describing how I feel. How can I be infatuated with the person I am infatuated with? Well, I am talking about “my delicate friend” and I am trying to figure out what has happened, why it has happened and what to [...]
“Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.”
Wayne Dyer (American motivational Speaker and Author of self-help best selling books. b.1940)
“The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms”
Lao Tzu (Philosopher, founder of Taoism, wrote “Tao Te [...]
Inspired by the previous passage from “Chapaev and Pustota” by Victor Pelevin
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The [...]
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. Pensées (1670)
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. Quoted in W H Auden and L Kronenberger, The Viking Book of Aphorisms (New York 1966).
Those who are [...]
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