January 4th, 2012 at 11:12PM
The unexamined self that examines the unexamined life is not worth being.
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January 4th, 2012 at 9:03PM

The whole point of reading for enlightenment is not the number of books you read but how well you read them.

Abraham Lincoln read only a few books but he read them very well. And the English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, said, “If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.”

 — Mortimer Adler
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December 14th, 2011 at 5:09AM

Unbalanced Life

“it’s not for lack of love of the language that these films [ Qatsi trilogy ] have no words. It’s because, from my point of view, our language is in a state of vast humiliation. It no longer describes the world in which we live.”

— Godfrey Reggio

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November 25th, 2011 at 10:45PM
Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. — George Orwell 

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November 20th, 2011 at 9:14PM
The final reason that I have identified for the growing recognition of GTD is one that I doubt I can explain in nice, concise terms, for it involves the more subtle arenas of psychology, aesthetics, and spirituality. I don’t claim to have any significant expertise in any of these fields, but there is an aspect of GTD and its expression that seems to resonate with something deeper and more meaningful than simply the specifics of the topics and contents with which it coaches people to work. I will be bold enough to suggest that GTD approaches the world in much the same way that art, psychology, and spirituality have: as a framework to understand and experience new levels and depths of truth and reality. — Making It All work, David Allen
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November 20th, 2011 at 8:29PM
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. — The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin
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November 20th, 2011 at 5:11PM

Reporters: “Why did you do it?” 

Philippe: “You know .. “why? why?”.. that is a very American finger-slapping question. I did something magnificent and mysterious and I got a practical “why?.” The beauty of it is that I didn’t have any “why.””

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November 17th, 2011 at 8:37PM
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. — Copernicus
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November 7th, 2011 at 4:24AM
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November 7th, 2011 at 3:34AM

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