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Today, I will have lived.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
So I walk on uplands unbounded, and know that there is hope for that which Thou didst mold out of dust to have consort with things eternal.
Joseph Conrad on art and the artist
The pain now, is part of the happiness then
The moment passes, and then you're alone again
The moment could not last
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it
Jean-Paul Sartre on bad faith
“There is only the present moment, and never will be anything else . . . what fun to drag it out! And to make it echo, and to get involved, and to fall in love, and to become attached.”
An economy primarily driven by growth must generate discontent
We both step and do not step into the same, we both are and are not
We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives
Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution
We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself
Books
The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley (1954)
Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley (1956)
Seven Brief Lessons On Physics, by Carlo Rovelli (2014)
Contact, by Carl Sagan (1985)
Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2015)
The Ethics of Authenticity, by Charles Taylor (1991)
The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London (1904)
Free Will, by Sam Harris (2012)
The Poverty of Affluence, by Paul L. Wachtel (1983)
The Elephant In The Brain, by K. Simler and R. Hanson (2017)
The Psychology of Money, by Morgan Housel (2020)
The Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli (2017)