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“Great art stretches the taste, it doesn’t follow tastes,”
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
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Masaya Suzuki • Fūrinkazan
as swift as wind, as gentle as forest, as fierce as fire, as unshakable as mountain
I simply await the day that they drag me to some air-conditioned dungeon and leave me there beneath the fluorescent lights and soundproofed ceiling to pay the price for scorning all that they hold dear within their little latex hearts.
Walker Percy • A Confederacy of Dunces
Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above
Alan Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Religions are divisive and quarrelsome. They are a form of one-upmanship because they depend upon separating the “saved” from the “damned,” the true believers from the heretics, the in-group from the out-group.
“I came of age at a magical time,” he reflected later. “Our consciousness was raised by Zen, and also by LSD.” Even later in life he would credit psychedelic drugs for making him more enlightened. “Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t re
... See moreWalter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Hmmm I thought drugs were bad. Here's Tom with the Weather....
If you take a narrative view, there are different things to accomplish at different stages of life. Dating and having these passionate flings are perfect when you’re younger, but some of the greatest joys of life come from nurturing and from what’s called “generativity.” People have strong strivings to build something, to do something, to leave som
... See moreAziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg • Modern Romance
“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.”
Christopher McDougall • Born to Run
“Going to the verge of war without actually getting into war is the necessary art,”
Leo Janos • Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
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Wisdom by EM
If you do something like read a lot of books and talk to a lot of people, you can learn almost anything.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. The friends who tell you what you want to hear might make you