"Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers"

-- Arthur Helps

#Disappointment Quotes #Philosopher Quotes #Mets Quotes

“You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read.”

Source : Tatyana Tolstaya (2016). “The Slynx”, p.127, New York Review of Books
“My bazooka is locked, cocked, and ready to unload.”
“Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.”
“Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.”
“Loneliness is a terrible blindness.”
“Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?”
“I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena”

Source : "From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology: Francisco Varela's exploration of the biophysics of being" by D. Rudrauf, Biol Res 36: 27-65, 2003.
“When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.”

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