“My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.”
— Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (via Philosophy Bits)
Tag: Quote
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Erica Avey on Subjectivity
“Is speaking/(writing) subjectively an inherently selfish act? Can you still become no one if you find a subjective way to speak for yourself that also speaks for others? Can you speak for all those who came before you (especially those silenced) by speaking now? Do women get challenged more for speaking subjectively than men?”
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Seth Godin on Our Culture
Our culture is the result of a trillion tiny acts, taken by billions of people, every day. Each of them can seem insignificant, but all of them add up, one way or the other, to the change we each live through.”
— Seth Godin (via A Layman’s Blog)
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Virginia Woolf on Meaning
It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (via Macrolit)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Being Wanted
Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series (via Philosophy Bits)
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Baruch Spinoza on Free Will
So experience itself, no less clearly than reason, teaches that men [sic] believe themselves free because they are conscious of their own actions, and ignorant of the cause by which they are determined, that the decisions of the mind are nothing but the appetites themselves which therefore vary as the disposition of the body varies.”
— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
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Giovanni Boccaccio on the Wrongs of Long Ago
Wrongs of long ago are more easily criticized than put right.”
— Giovanni Boccaccio, Andreuccio da Perugia’s Neapolitan adventures
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Sarah Gershman on Emotion as a Currency for Remembering Content
According to numerous studies, emotion is a basic currency for remembering content. A listener must connect emotionally to what they hear in order to remember what the speaker says. Simply, we remember most vividly the events in our lives in which we were most emotionally impacted.”
— Sarah Gershman, Do You Need Charisma to Be a Great Public Speaker? (via swissmiss)
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Seneca on Friendship
I can show you many who have lacked, not a friend, but a friendship.”
— Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius
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In Winter Enjoy
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
— William Blake, Proverbs of Hell (via @austinkleon)
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If the industrial era was about building things, the social era is about connecting things, people and ideas.”
— Nilofer Merchant (via FREE MARKET)
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Why are you so afraid to create? Why do you put so many obstacles in your own way? You drown your strength, you waste it.”
— Anaïs Nin, “The Four-Chambered Heart” (via violentwavesofemotion)
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