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“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”
—Immanuel Kant (via ageofreason)
August 2011
“People say, ‘I’m going to sleep now,’ as if it were nothing. But it’s really a bizarre activity. ‘For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life. If you didn’t know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you’d seen. They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the ‘mind adventures’ got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren’t unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee. So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you’re in a science fiction movie. And whisper, ‘The creature is regenerating itself.”
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George Carlin (via arreter)
Precious
(via readmysoul)
How To Be Restless In A Beautiful Place →
thoughtcatalog.com
“Detach. Receive news of unanticipated tragedies via text message. Experience apathy as a reflex, rather than a defense meant to counterbalance your tendency for hyperbole; settle into passivity as a norm, instead of a retreat taken from your residence in the extreme. Fail to realize that indifference is its own extreme, a sharp tangent off the safer grid-lines of ecstasy and sorrow.
Engage in a series of shameless clichés. Incorrectly assume exoneration for doing so hyper-consciously. Act on your impulses because impulses are fleeting. Cling to them like kite strings.”
“This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.”
—Kafka (via clonazepamm)
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
—Lisa Kleypas (via runawaytrain)
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
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- May Sarton (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
this is (not) psychology: Propinquity effect →
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The more we meet and interact with people, the more likely we are to become friends with them.
As we meet people we become familiar and find things we like about them.
It is not so much ‘birds of a feather flock together’ as ‘birds who just happen to be near each other grow similar…
How I feel about how crushes and relationships develop.
Your past life diagnosis
I don’t know how you feel about it, but you were male in your last earthly incarnation. You were born somewhere in the territory of modern East Australia around the year 1775. Your profession was that of a philosopher and thinker.
Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
Timid, constrained, quiet person. You had creative talents, which waited until this life to be liberated. Sometimes your environment considered you strange.
The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation:
Your main task is to make the world more beautiful. Physical and spiritual deserts are just waiting for your touch. Keep smiling!
Just for fun!
“As ever more Americans go online instead of sending paper, the volume of mail has been plummeting. The decline is steeper than even pessimists expected a decade ago.”
—The US Postal Service has lost $20 billion in the last four years and expects to lose another $8 billion this fiscal year. The recession made everything worse, but the internet is the main culprit. (via theeconomist)
“The authors ran a series of experiments where students were randomly allotted sums of money, separated by $1, and informed about the “income distribution” that resulted. They were then given another $2, which they could give either to the person directly above or below them in the distribution. In keeping with the notion of “last-place aversion”, the people who were a spot away from the bottom were the most likely to give the money to the person above them: rewarding the “rich” but ensuring that someone remained poorer than themselves.”
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Economics focus: Don’t look down | The Economist
(via tongrhj)
“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.”
—Henry Miller (via catsarepractical)
