Mike S
@mas
Mike S
@mas
Because he himself bumps into a thing, he calls it the nearest obstacle; though the obstacle may happen to be the pillar that holds up the whole roof over his head.
No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.
For the meaning of woods is the combination of energy with complexity. A forest is not in the least rude or barbarous; it is only dense with delicacy.
“In love of home, the love of country has its rise” —Dickens
Education, learning, epistemology and for X
Dickens, The curiosity shop
Beach Scenes
I.
I stoop to hold small
weather-worn stone
sun-soaked till
warm as when first born,
no more alone.
poetry and gold and dross

political quadrants and how they relate to methods of coordination
But I do say, to start with, “What can we do for posterity, except deal fairly with our contemporaries?” Unless a man love his wife whom he has seen, how shall he love his child whom he has not seen?
‘Anyone,’ said the other, ‘except the Fools at the Top could of course have foreseen it from the word go.’
Dostoevsky said, “if man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing, he believes in anything.”
Ideologies, science, machines, entertainments: all are meant to take the place of meaningful and purposeful action in the spirit.
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(Matthew Rafael Johnson)