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“Half the harm done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
— T. S. Eliot
- palimpsest1
“The future of the world no longer disturbs me; I do not try still to calculate, with anguish, how long or how short a time the Roman peace will endure; I leave that to the Gods. Not that I have acquired more confidence in their justice, which is not our justice, or more faith in human wisdom; the contrary is true. Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts to begin over again and to continue, all seem to me like so many prodigies which nearly compensate for monstrous mass of ills and defeats, of indifference and error. Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time. Peace will again establish itself between two periods and there regain the meaning which we have tried to give them. Not all our books will perish, nor our statues, if broken, lie unrepaired; other domes and pediments will rise from our domes and pediments; some few men will think and work and feel as we have done, and I venture to count upon such continuators, placed irregularly throughout the centuries, and upon this kind of intermittent immortality.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar
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- Words to live by.palimpsest
- He was in Korea and there enemy is of another color: red!palimpsest
- Krassy3
“Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.”
― Bruce Lee
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One of the bigger mistakes you can make in life is assuming that everyone has a sense of humor. -- Michael Lipsey
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"I find the mono-perspective on something is thoughtless. If I can have an image of everything at once, aligned and captured, it also assigns me to a position, the one from which I can capture everything. It is not about that very frontal relation—the transaction between subject and object—rather it is an operation of de-framing the way we see or know. As one navigates a site of uncertainty—of possibilities—meaning can be assembled, or not, depending on where you come from and where you are going."
Pierre Huyghe
- i like his workKrassy
- He's one of three best, I've been following him since the 90s. His body is works reminds me of how Robert Irwin said...palimpsest
- about art not being the object but a continual inquiry into the potential of human beings to perceive another world with an aesthetic bias.palimpsest
- Excuse my autocorrect.
- one of the best
- his body of workpalimpsest - +100Krassy
- Ianbolton4
In retrospect, this is a pretty fucked up quote
- rzu-rzu0
"Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed."
- I. Kant
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"Let No One Steal Your Joy"
- IRNlun62
“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”
Muhammad Ali
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"A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it."
- Krassy3
- plato never explicitly said thissarahfailin
- now that I think about it. this is the opposite of what plato would have said. he believed the realm of ideals existed apart from the mind. you can't change thesarahfailin
- ideal form of a horse by feeling or thinking differently about horses. those essential ideals are permanent and immutable. ARISTOTLE might would-have said this.sarahfailin
- maquito1
“There’s no second chance for first impressions.”
- IRNlun60
"You always own the option of having no opinion.
There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control.
These things are not asking to be judged by you.
Leave them alone."
Marcus Aurelius
- rzu-rzu3
"Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world."
- Miyamoto Musashi
