Quotes

"The truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened, transferred, and adorned, and after long use seem solid, canonical, and binding to a nation. Truths are illusions about which it has been forgotten that they are illusions."

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Alex Kennedy • Tweet

rob hardy

The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of

Bora

JJan Skóra

What defines us.

“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” - Mary Oliver

Dan • Tweet

rob hardy

"There is a point beyond which we cannot return. That is the point that must be reached." —Franz Kafka

Henrik Karlsson • Tweet

rob hardy

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. ― E.M. Forster, Howards End

Morgan Harper Nichols

"Being underestimated is a gift. You don’t have to find motivation."

James clear

Myq Kaplan

“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”

― ram dass

Poetic Outlaws • Tweet

rob hardy

The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.”— Jordan Peterson

Amit Cohen