Martin Black
@martinxo
all the endless things
Martin Black
martinblack.substack.com
Roam is the larder, Sublime is the blender
Jazz is the teacher (funk is the preacher)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_2gFCZ3Kb8
For him [Feynman] satisfaction in discovery was there even if what you discover was already known by others. It was there even if all you are doing is re-deriving someone else’s result your own way. And it was there even if your creativity is in playing with your child. It was self-satisfaction. Feynman’s focus was internal, and his internal focus... See more
Feynman's Rainbow by Leonard Mlodinow
La Verité consiste dans les nuances
(The truth lies in the nuances)
- Ernest Renan
What, in fact, is 'style'?
It meant originally a writing implement...But already in Classical Latin the word stilus was extended to mean, first, a man’s '‘way of writing’, then, more generally, his ‘way of expressing himself’, in speech as well as in writing.
In modern English, ‘style’ has acquired further senses. As in French, it has been narrowed
... See moreCaelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt
translation:
Those that beyond sea go, shall find they change their climate only, not their mind.
Horace - from Epistles, Book 1, Epistle 11
experience, knowledge, reflection, and skill in dealing with men, combine to give an old man an increasingly accurate insight into the ways of the world; his judgment becomes keen and he attains a coherent view of life: his mental vision embraces a wider range. Constantly finding new uses for his stores of knowledge and adding to them at every
... See moreArthur Schopenhauer • The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)
What is hate? The dictionary definition of “extreme dislike” feels unsatisfying. Philosophers have a more refined understanding, and have been musing about this state since Aristotle. In Rhetoric , the Greek philosopher contrasted hate with anger. Anger is directed at particular actions and is fleeting, while hate is enduring and directed at a... See more