Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. (Holmes; The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Peter Bevelin • A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
“Many times an old man has no other evidence besides his age to prove he has lived a long time.” —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 3.8b
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
“I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we’ve outgrown our wonder years.
Walter Isaacson • Leonardo da Vinci
The poet John Keats once wrote to a friend of his named Bailey: “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affection and the truth of Imagination—What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth—whether it existed before or not.”
Dan Simmons • Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 1)
even here in the heart of great, hand-made London
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Sherlock Holmes
that depth of mindlessness which calls itself the modern mind.