Der Tag saß im weißgestrichenen Boot und kam dem Abend entgegengefahren.
— Isaak Babel
Posted July 27, 2010 at 12:59pm
The solution to a problem and the correct way of posing the question are two completely separate things. And only the latter is an artist’s responsibility.
— Anton Checkhov
Posted July 17, 2010 at 3:04pm
Knowledge that takes you not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.
Posted July 17, 2010 at 3:00pm
As a consequence of the slavish “categoryitis” the scientifically illogical, and as we shall see, often meaningless questions “Where do you live?” “What are you?” “What religion?” “What race?” ’”What nationality?” are all thought of today as logical questions. By the twenty- first century it either will have become evident to humanity that these questions are absurd and anti-evolutionary or men will no longer be living on Earth. If you don’t comprehend why that is so, listen to me closely.
— Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Buckminster Fuller. 1969.
Posted May 26, 2010 at 12:01pm
Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home…. Maybe it is a good things for us to keep a few dreams of a house that we shall live in later, always later, so much later, in fact, that we shall not have time to achieve it. For a house that was final, one that stood in symmetrical relation to the house we were born in, would lead to thoughts—serious, sad thoughts—and not to dreams. It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Posted May 25, 2010 at 10:43pm
The rate of cultural and economic progress depends on the rate at which ideas are having sex.
— Evolution and Creativity. Via Reham.
Posted May 25, 2010 at 1:46am
To live authentically means fashioning a creative and responsive selfhood, a self that can productively engage in intimacy and mutuality.
— E. Fromm via A. Elliott
Posted May 19, 2010 at 5:12pm
Hope and Faith
- Habib: "I gave up hope and suddenly felt much better." - Woody Allen
- Reena: When we stop hoping, we disrupt the chain reaction and refuse any disappointment but when we keep the faith within, confrontation and overcoming of any obstacle act as a catalyst which reaffirm themselves. Give up the 'hope', but nourish the faith within.
Posted May 7, 2010 at 2:58pm
