February 2012
26 posts
January 2012
33 posts
“If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you were bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, but satisfied to live now according to nature, speaking heroic truth in every word which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no man able to prevent this.”
—Meditations Book III, Part 12 (161–180 CE) by Marcus Aurelius
“You can of course judge philosophy according to common sense; the trouble is that while ‘common sense’ and ‘feeling’ understand nothing about philosophy, philosophy, on the other hand, understands them perfectly. You don’t explain philosophers, but they explain you.”
—Blind And Dumb Criticism (1957) by Roland Barthes
“The work of artists and scientists is ultimately the pursuit of truth, but members of both camps understand that truth in its very nature is contextual and changeable, dependent on point of view, and that today’s truths becomes tomorrow’s disproven hypotheses of forgotten objet d’arts.”
—This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (2006) by Daniel J. Levitin
