[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world.
Alain de BottonTags: humor life art vanity understanding criticism novels films desire plays paintings poems gravity anxiety self-understanding
We find, counterintuitively, that a small population correlates with shorter humans, and a larger population correlates with taller humans. This only makes sense in light of the FSM theory of gravity. With more people on earth today, there are fewer Noodly Appendages to go around, so we each receive less touching—pushing down toward the earth—and thus, with less force downward, we're taller.
Bobby HendersonAll of this while I left lifted by a strange new medium, a strange element--I now tell you that I was newly buoyant in a brighter life. In the midst of a hymn, God had disappeared. It was like waking from a nightmare in which I'd been paralyzed. Like discovering that gravity itself had been only a bad dream.
Denis JohnsonTags: life god gravity nightmare
It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
Wernher von BraunTags: heaven space gravity planet rocket
Take a step back. Draw in a deep breath. Now ask yourself 'so what?' Then, after answering, ask yourself again 'so what?' And then a third time—'so what?' Chances are you'll come to realize that the issue at hand is not as dire, detrimental, or important as you first thought.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: seriousness problems importance stress problem-solving concern gravity richelle detrimental richelle-goodrich so-what
You'll have to give me a minute here. Gravity's a real bitch this morning.
Ian to Kori
Tags: morning gravity bitch ian kori
Satan fell by the force of gravity.
G.K. ChestertonSometimes the worst beatings we endure are never the physical kind.
Dannika DarkTags: truth tragedy struggle triumph gravity physical mageri beatings
The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.
Yuval Ne'emanTags: science einstein ignorance sad physics albert-einstein gravity relativity general-relativity special-relativity
Gravity overcomes grace and form at a certain mass level.
Sara StarkTags: gravity
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