January 2011
74 posts
Reblog if you want (3) cute message from someone....
I don’t expect any, but I’ll answer any questions in my ask :-)
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One day, I'd like to find a girl who is okay with...
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“The occasion and the experience, then, are nothing. It all depends on the...”
– William James, On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings
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“And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: To find out...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, The Lantern Bearers
To my new followers
Welcome, and thanks for following me!
My blog, as you may have noticed, is used primarily for quote posting and philosophical rambling. Many of the quotes I post originally are coming from works I am reading for class or for my thesis project. I’ve been making the rounds of various philosophical texts, and occasionally explicating parts of them if I feel they are wort discussing.
I also...
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“If I could show you these men and women, all the world over; in every stage of...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Pulvis Et Umbra
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in...”
– Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)
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“But in man, at least, it sways with so complete an empire that merely selfish...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Pulvis Et Umbra
Should Schools Stop Teaching Cursive Writing? →
literarymuse:
I can’t even write in print. When I try, it comes out all scrawly. This article talks mostly about how the decision not to teach cursive comes out of the fact that its not tested through No Child Left Behind legislation. I think a lot of it has to do with the proliferation of typing now that most have computers or at least access to one. Personally, as a person who grew up during...
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“Consideration does not dwell upon the view; that way madness lies; science...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Pulvis et Umbra
It's one of those nights where that one and only...
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Philosophical Ramblings of the Night
I have a feeling these nightly ramblings might become somewhat regular. I am current studying for my second attempt at my Comprehensive exams, and I may write about the essays I read that day. Today, I bring you thoughts on Karl Marx.
I’m not aiming on going off on some kind of some sort of politico-social rant; my particular interests were perked by his Estranged Labor and The Meaning of...
“There are things lurking in my saved draft posts that would make a heartbroken...”
– Dora Bianchi, Questionable Content
Ok Tumblr...
Why are you randomly adding and removing the people I follow? I check once, and I am following 4 less people. I click again to check, and they are back. I nod and say okay, go back about my business, and they are gone again!
Sometimes I don't know I'm making faces as I'm...
leavesfromthevine:
until my dad asks if I’m okay or my friend asks why I’m smiling.
livewithnoregret asked: I thought i should tell you reading through your blog is giving me a sense of inspiration.
How long did it take you to decide between majors?
How long did it take you to decide between majors?
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Back in action
I forgot how tiring Aikido can be, especially when you haven’t practiced in quite a long time. It made me realize how out of shape I had become.
But damn, it made me feel good. I am glad to be back practicing Aikido.
“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?” Mo...”
– Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (via melancholynotes)
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Damned if you do, Damned if you don't.
We have a funny way of making our own lives more difficult for ourselves, when by our own energies and desires, we actively stop ourselves from doing or saying that which we would like, out of no rational reason except that we fear what may come, yet recoil in that very same horror for never saying or doing what we would really like.
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“The solid meaning of life is always the same thing, - the marriage, namely, of...”
– William James, What Makes a Life Significant
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“The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. ...”
– Leo Tolstoy, My Confession
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Full Circle
I entered a bit late into the academic philosophy game. It hadn’t been my first choice, and to be honest, had not been something I had considered at all for my college career.
After I stopped flying, and was in flux for a time between majors, I decided to explore other possibilities for my education, among them psychology and philosophy. English might have been fun, too, but I...
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“Never a magnanimity fell to the ground but there is some heart to greet and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be it how it may, then, this is Emerson’s revelation: — The point of...”
– William James, on Ralph Waldo Emerson, from the Address at the Emerson Centenary in Concord
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“Trust thyself, every heart vibrates to that iron string. There is a time in...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Trust thyself, every heart vibrates to that iron string. There is a time in...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thoughts on Mencius
Following up my thoughts of some of the passages of the Lun-yu, I’d like to comment on some passages from the Mencius which I thought were particularly poignant. If you are unaware, Mencius was a Chinese philosopher of the Confucian tradition, and is generally regarded as the second most important philosopher in that tradition besides Confucius. The key work studied for his work is...
“My eyes always returning to Denna. She sat beside me, arms hugging her knees. ...”
– The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
“My eyes always returning to Denna. She sat beside me, arms hugging her knees. ...”
– The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
“Chronicler frowned “You said yourself that there was nothing you could...”
– The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
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Love
I’m sure that the you I have built up in my head is nothing like the you in real life. But then again, I think that is what love is for. It reconciles the you I have in my head with the real you, and creates something all the more vivid and real than any single notion of you could ever lead me to believe.
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I'll tell you a secret.
Very rarely am I afraid. Uncertain, yes. Confused, maybe.
But afraid? Not usually.
Now, I am afraid.
Tomorrow is going to be a very hard morning.
“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be...”
– Paulo Coelho (via libraryland)
Posting
Regular posting will resume after Friday.
I am so worried right now. I feel like I just don’t have enough time, anymore. Its the second time around, so it should be easier, but I just feel like no matter how much I read and study, I am not prepared.
“I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.”
– Natalie Portman (via thechocolatebrigade)
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Journal
In 1998, I read at least 67 books. Looking through my list, I know there were books in the middle that weren’t added, but those 67 are the ones I have chronicled.
This may be one of the greatest gifts I was ever given. A journal of all the books I read, as kept by my mother.
And the love of reading that she fostered in me.
