May 2013
58 posts
Human life is guided by many ideas. Truth is one of them. Freedom and mental...
– Paul Feyerabend (via thesummerofmark)
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The worst thing you can do is rest all your hopes on a wish. A granted wish...
– ― Dia Reeves, Slice of Cherry
It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual...
– Paul Feyerabend, “The Disunity of Science”. (via goebel)
What Is Up With "Thou," "Thee," "Thy," and...
theyuniversity:
Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
– Mignon McLaughlin
(via dunsanian)
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One of the most overused words in the political lexicon is ‘equality’. A word...
– Jon Holbrook
Because feminism is essentially an expression of female victimhood working to...
– Gordon Wadsworth.
one-hamburger:
Yeah the sun is hot, but have you ever stopped to think about its personality
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Low character limits will be the death of me. If I could go in a time machine and smack the inventors of twitter in the head with a shove the moment after they decided make their character limit so low then I’d really struggle not to kill ‘em.
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Google glass + facial recognition + facebook linked to your real name + your real name and address on so many government and corporate databases + google maps = Creepy stalker taking a sly pic as you walk past them on the street and them waiting outside your door next tuesday.
Am I just being paranoid? or is anyone else scared?
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them...
– Robert Anton Wilson (via f1ndyourcenter)
There is no blame to pin anywhere; there is a balance to try to achieve.
– Maria Bustillos (via hope-robber)
Tumblr: THIS IS NOT AN ECHO CHAMBER!
Tumblr : THIS IS NOT AN ECHO CHAMBER!
Tumblr: This is not an echo chamber.
Tumblr : This is not an echo chamber.
satans-advocate:
okc profile intro: any variation of “im not your typical girl!”
me: [AGGRESSIVELY GRABS PC MONITOR, SCREAMING] OH REALLY? PLEASE TELL ME MORE [THROWS PC MONITOR OUT WINDOW, SCREAMS FROM WINDOW] YOU HAVE MOST DEFINITELY PIQUED MY INTEREST
If you’re over 6 years of age and you’re still getting your music from the...
– George Carlin 1937 - 2008 (via thinksquad)
Multiculturalism is not an attempt to “enrich” White cultures by adding sundry...
– Michael Polignano
(via hyperboreanhome)
The ignorant man is driven hither and thither by the laws of nature, a helpless...
– Annie Besant (via heartbloodspirit)
janetdevlinoffic:
Always remember that you are not worthless. Organs are extremely expensive on the black market.
satans-advocate:
feministsaresexist:
bastardlybrendan:
sassycybermen:
“I’m a woman and I’m not offended by this, clearly it isn’t sexist!”
wow I didn’t realise you were the singular spokesperson for 3.5 billion people of different ages, races, religions, backgrounds, sexual orientations, social classes, and cultures, I’m so sorry
“I’m a woman and I’m offended by this, clearly it’s...
Person: What state do you live in?
Me: Denial.
Don’t settle. Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the...
– Chris Brogan (via cityyandcolour)
I literally tell myself this every time I find myself in a situation I don’t want to be in.
(via bakefestatspliffanys)
I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.
– Lin, Shantaram (via satans-advocate)
Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our...
– Michael Cloud (via satans-advocate)
The very essence of understanding is that it does not come as the solution to a...
– Henry Bugbee (via crematedadolescent)
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the...
– Jean Piaget (via freudianintuition)
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a...
– Robertson Davies (via heartbloodspirit)
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
– Niccolò Machiavelli (via huzzahwhat)
The SAT is a scam. It has been around for 50 years. It has never measured...
– John Katzman, founder of The Princeton Review (via thinksquad)
I’m not much but I’m all I have.
– Philip K. Dick (via electricfoxparlour)
a time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are...
– JONATHAN LETHEM (via allusionism)