May 2009
152 posts
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
If we take...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein (via betterversionofme)
“The wonderful conclusions of so much traditional philosophy are akin to the...”
– Peter Hack, Wittgenstein’s Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy
April 2009
151 posts
blogging is good
ndnick:
Even though I rarely get to see you two since college…. Kyle and Emmanuel. I feel like we become closer through these blogs. I like how it is just a few of us and not everyone. Its almost like we have a secret club like when you are young. It is good that we can share everything on here to each other and not feel worried. I can’t thank you enough for it because here I don’t have anybody I...
When Insults Had Class
ornithes:
leavinghome:
aristobrat:
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” - Winston Churchill
“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.” - Winston Churchill
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” - Clarence Darrow
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” - William...
Cowboy Bebop OST.
Damn you
cute girl with short hair. Walking through hallways where we share smiles does nothing to improve my health.
I will see you Saturday! When we become orange belts together. :P
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Seeking
I want to yell at a sunrise, as all of its orange and yellow rays caress all that is good and evil in this world I want to grapple with warm light. I have this urge to let it know that I, an inhabitant of this minuscule planet, am enraged. For too long I’ve kept this in, and now I want someone to see, even the bright apathetic sun can witness it for all I care.
For all I care is for it to...
Been a fool, been a clown
lost my way from up and...
“That was the difference between him and, say, Elvis or Sinatra, who had simply...”
– Robyn Hitchock (via dailydoseofdylan) (via remijaye) (via digitalbath) (via bloodystorylily) (via jumbledemotion) (via merricat) (via unicornology) (via mayonegg) (via paganpoetry)
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who...”
– Henri Nouwen (via brokenmachine)
LOL.
Interviewer: Is Ringo the best drummer in the world?
John Lennon: Ringo isn't even the best drummer in The Beatles.
“Everything we stole, everything we broke,...
wilderness:
“When King Darius sent him a letter asking him to accept 10,000 talents in return for the prisoners, all the land west of the river Euphrates, one of his daughters in marriage and friendship and alliance, Alexander put the terms to his companions. ‘If I were Alexander,’ Parmenion said, ‘I would accept these terms.’ ‘And so would I,’ said Alexander, ‘if I were Parmenion.’” —...
“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but...”
– Kierkegaard (via digitalbath) (via wilderness)
from beginning of today's metaphysics lecture
Professor: is your hand raised or?
Señor: yeah, I just wanted to make a comment
Señor: so it seems like you're trying to discover what the negative metaphysical verdict are
Señor: and if you take a quote by Søren Kierkegaard that says, "life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced," and you take this to mean that metaphysics is a choice and the philosopher chooses some negative metaphysical verdicts and some positive metaphysical verdicts and if you truly believe this...
Professor: are you reading us your work, señor, or...
Señor: yes. and if you choose to believe this then all metaphysical problems are solved.
Professor: um. If you choose to believe this, all problems are solved. What's the this?
Señor: uh, everything that I just said.
Professor: ok, that'll be all for today.
[APPLAUSE]
Alright,
now its time to study for some macro economics and then go to a festival later on tonight! I’m stoked, this freaking school year is coming to a close.
“we have a whole life to live together you fucker, but it can’t start until you...”
– 9000 (via jgsk)
likelava:
sooner or later everyone will know,...
“We need to enter into love each day, in the way we enter into prayer.
We connect...”
– Freydoon Rassouli
“The cross.
(Last stop
on the road.)
It looks at itself in the ditch.
(Last...”
– Fedrico Garcia Lorca, Poem of the Deep Song
“Sometimes, emerging all warm and languorous from a fragrant bath, she would...”
– Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
