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“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.” - Richard Feynman
(via refractive-mind)
“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.” - Richard Feynman
(via refractive-mind)
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Khalil Gibran
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.Diane Setterfield (via explaterate)(via the-rx)
(via gbanana)
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.Albert Camus(Source: kari-shma, via quote-book)
One of 97 “Letters to the Children of Troy,” to celebrate the opening of the new Troy Public Library on 510 West Big Beaver in 1971.
Isaac Asimov (by troylib)
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment
As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Shunryu Suzuki
Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.Alan Watts (via yosifbrosif)(via refractive-mind)
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. Love all men, love everything. Seek that rapture and ecstasy. Water the earth with the tears of your joy and love those tears. … ‘What is hell?’ I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880, trans. Constance Garnett (via proustitute)
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.E. M. Cioran (via anticipatedstranger)(via proustitute)
I miss the Automat.
(Source: grrrlongrrrl)