elfstone Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkjk Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. (If only more people viewed the world this way.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sarah.Adams Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 A poet once said, “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth’s rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe’s age, and the evolution of stars. What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts—physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on—remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all! Richard Feynman Dedicated to all uncivilized beer drinkers out there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 19 minutes ago, SuperG.Girl said: Dedicated to all uncivilized beer drinkers out there And it would be exactly the same if it said "a glass of beer" Plus! Beer was a catalyst for civilization... unlike the oh so decadent wine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” Frank Zappa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cult Icon Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 "Music is thus by no means like the other arts, the copy of ideas, but rather it is a copy of the will itself, whose objectivity the ideas are. This is why the effect of music is so much more powerful and penetrating than the other arts. They speak only of shadows, but it speaks of the thing itself" Schopenhauer By this statement Schopenhauer is referring to how other artforms- eg. visual, literary, etc. are "representations" of the will, while music alone is the will itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enrico_sw Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” George Orwell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 "Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein." Dick Rowe of Decca Records to Brian Epstein when he rejected signing The Beatles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cult Icon Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 "The past lies ahead of us" Heidegger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cult Icon Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 to philosophize is to learn to die Montaigne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enrico_sw Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Cult Icon said: to philosophize is to learn to die Montaigne One of the professors that I learned philosophy from considered this to be one of the best definitions of philosophy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cult Icon Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 16 hours ago, Enrico_sw said: One of the professors that I learned philosophy from considered this to be one of the best definitions of philosophy. This is the name of one of his essays. Palliative care, Buddhism and stoicism embodies this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cult Icon Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Human beings cannot take too much reality TS Eliot, Four quartets - Burnt Norton My favorite quote of the year is "All is vanity", from Ecclesiastes 1:2. I find myself repeating it in my head quite often these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cult Icon Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cult Icon Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 go forth boldly into your future death is not the end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cult Icon Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 . . A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments. TS Eliot, Four Quartets . . Redeem The time. Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream TS Eliot, Ash Wednesday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enrico_sw Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 "The most important achievement that a human being can attain is to learn to understand because to understand is to be free." Spinoza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkjk Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 "Life sucks, then you die" - Stephen King from Pet Sematary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cult Icon Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Death Poem of Hanabusa Ikkei 1843 I thought to live two centuries, or three yet here comes death to me, a child just eighty-five years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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