January 2012
“Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an...”
– Jean Genet (via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)
Jan 31st
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“The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending...”
– Dave Barry
Jan 30th
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“Give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day. Give him a religion and...”
– Anonymous
Jan 30th
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“Man is the microcosm: I am my world.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two...”
– Carl Sagan — Skeptical Inquirer
Jan 25th
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“There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.”
– Camus, Notebooks (1942-1951)
Jan 25th
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“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western...”
– Douglas Adams — The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Jan 25th
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“What is a belief? How does it originate? Every belief is a...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Jan 24th
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“Weakness of the will: that is a metaphor that can prove misleading. For there is...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Jan 24th
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“How did the exhausted come to make the laws about values? How did those come to...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Jan 24th
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“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”
– Lewis Carrrol, Alice in Wonderland (via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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“When I visited Richard Dawkins, we talked about the possibility that natural...”
– Steve Olson and Greg Graffin — Anarchy Evolution
Jan 23rd
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“A “paradox” is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of...”
– Richard Feynman
Jan 23rd
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“The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty,...”
– Richard Feynman
Jan 23rd
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Jan 21st
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“When a new biological structure or mechanism is discovered, evolutionary...”
– Steve Olson & Greg Graffin — Anarchy Evolution
Jan 19th
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“It was just a little more than a century and a half ago when Charles Darwin and...”
– Steve Olson & Greg Graffin — Anarchy Evolution
Jan 19th
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“This brief overview of Bad Religion’s origins can’t help but sound familiar to...”
– Steve Olson & Greg Graffin — Anarchy Evolution
Jan 19th
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“I still believe that everyone needs to have at least a cursory understanding of...”
– Steve Olson & Greg Graffin — Anarchy Evolution
Jan 19th
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“Many religious people, for example, believe that without religion there can be...”
– Steve Olson & Greg Graffin — Anarchy Evolution
Jan 19th
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“Instead of finding time to write, allot time to write. Prolific writers make a...”
– Paul J. Silvia — How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
Jan 18th
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“Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is...”
– Ralph Keyes
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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“ “There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist, Survivor, W. W. Norton, 1999. (Illustration: Termes Thoughts) See also: ☞ ‘To understand is to perceive patterns’ via amiquote)
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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“I, a universe of atoms, am an atom in the universe.”
– Richard Feynman (via terramantra)
Jan 18th
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“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
– John Locke (via philphys)
Jan 17th
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“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a...”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)
Jan 17th
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“We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from...”
– Alan Watts
Jan 17th
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“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So...”
– Alan Watts (via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)
Jan 17th
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“Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via suenosenlaluna)
Jan 16th
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“[Aunger] conceives of technological change as strongly analogous to biological...”
– Philip Brey — Technological Design as an Evolutionary Process
Jan 16th
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“A riot is the language of the unheard.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. in an address given in Birmingham, Alabama on December 31, 1963  (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Jan 16th
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“Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good...”
– Gottlob Frege (via philphys)
Jan 15th
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“By natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the...”
– Henri Poincare — Science and Method
Jan 15th
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“Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of...”
– Ronald Fisher
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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“You ask me if there’s any discovery that has changed how we live? It is quantum...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via nikulis)
Jan 15th
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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it...”
– Friedrich Nietzche (via cultureofresistance)
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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“And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the...”
– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (via failuresoffeeling)
Jan 13th
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“We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.”
– Chris Mooney — The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science
Jan 13th
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“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will...”
– Bertrand Russell (via philphys)
Jan 13th
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