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Sense-seeking creative🫀interested in systems of knowledge, how identity forms, and what it means to claim sovereignty over one’s inner world (with a side of cozy murder).
Circé ☆
@circewiki
Sense-seeking creative🫀interested in systems of knowledge, how identity forms, and what it means to claim sovereignty over one’s inner world (with a side of cozy murder).
The map is not the territory.
– Alfred Korzybski
An Allegory of Astrology, Placido Costanzi (Italian, 1702-1759)
Le Code de Hammurabi (ou code d'Hammourabi ) est un texte juridique babylonien daté d'environ 1750 av. J.-C., à ce jour le plus complet des codes de lois connus de la Mésopotamie antique.
Le serment d’Hippocrate est un serment traditionnellement prêté par les médecins, chirurgiens-dentistes et les sages-femmes en Occident avant de commencer à exercer. Le texte original de ce serment, probablement rédigé au IVe siècle av. J.-C., appartient aux textes de la Collection hippocratique, traditionnellement attribués au médecin grec Hippocr
... See more“We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands, so does our power to think."
- L'Engle, Madeleine. A Circle of Quiet (The Crosswicks Journals Book 1) (p. 149). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.
Theory of linguistics determinism (theory of Sapir Whorf) : mostly abandoned by scientists (thinking precedes languages). But linguistic relativity has been proven. Therefore it is true in the sense : language is a tool you can use to sharpen how you think.
When I write an advertisement, I don’t want you to tell me that you find it ‘creative’. I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product. When Aeschines spoke, they said, “how well he speaks”. But when Demosthenes spoke, they said, ‘Let us march against Philip’.
Introduction of his book. Not the first line but the second !