A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: thought possibility profundity
All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.
RuPaulTag: humor money truth past present thought sins
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
Freeman DysonTag: education thought creativity adolescence testing
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.
Steven PinkerTag: thought patterns genes behavior temperments
Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.
Louis ZukofskyTag: intelligence mind infinity thought math mathematics addition
It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
George GissingTag: relationships thought
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!
Robert G. IngersollTag: knowledge religion faith thought ignorance myth action superstition skepticism eden garden-of-eden tree-of-knowledge
On the Bigotry of Culture:
: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.
Tag: life existence philosophy service thought meaning culture worth dehumanization
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel JohnsonTag: inspirational language thought johnson
A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.
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