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"It’s life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:11:41 -0700

“It’s life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (via willbraham)

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:48:06 -0700

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson on consistency (via invisiblestories)

"Being inclines intrinsically to self-concealment."

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:50:42 -0700

“Being inclines intrinsically to self-concealment.”

- Heraclitus, Fragment 123 (via mythologyofblue)

yourneighbour:

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:28:21 -0700

yourneighbour:

"Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:15:54 -0700

“Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.”

- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

(via mythologyofblue)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 11:22:20 -0700

"After enlightenment, the laundry."

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:18:31 -0700

“After enlightenment, the laundry.”

- Zen proverb (via differenceetrepetition)

"Thorny blossoms I shall be your soil here."

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:10:04 -0700

“Thorny blossoms
I shall be your soil here.”

- Santoka (via differenceetrepetition)

"There are two methods for cultivating the uniqueness of the self: the method of addition and the..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:02:08 -0700

“There are two methods for cultivating the uniqueness of the self: the method of addition and the method of subtraction.”

- Milan Kundera, Immortality (via differenceetrepetition)

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"Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:11:48 -0700

“Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost…perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that precious little fragment as well.”

- Philip K. Dick (via upstardown)

"The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:02:17 -0700

““The answer is never the answer.
What’s really interesting is the mystery.
If you seek the mystery instead of the answer,
you’ll always be seeking.
I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer —
they think they have, so they stop thinking.
But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery,
plant a garden in which strange plants grow
and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is
greater than the need for an answer.””

- Ken Kesey

(via loverofbeauty)