March 2012
88 posts
The scientists by large know more liberal arts, than the science known by...
– Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
I agree. But it really makes me sad when I hear scientists saying that literature is useless because it’s all about unreal stories, or that art in general is meaningless because is subjective. It’s not ok this either.
(via scipsy)
February 2012
45 posts
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is...
– Karl Marx
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/quotes/index.htm
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the...
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via deviland)
A Momentary Flow: A Polytopia reader -... →
wildcat2030:
(Having been asked for it, this is a re-post for those that missed it)
A Cyber Soaring Humanity
1. A Cyber Soaring Humanity (or The rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization)
2.The Natural Asymmetry of Infocologies
3.This mountain has no top
4.Hybrid futures, Knowmads and the Notion…
Can a soul, a conscousness, an “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then...
– Douglas Hofstadter, from “I am a strange loop”.
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
– Carl Jung (via which-witch)
And therefore I wander these solitary and desolate places in search of...
– Cervantes - Don Quixote (via elenahol)
Mind precedes all things;
mind is their chief, mind is their maker.
If one...
– Dhammapada 1.2 (via ageofreason)