"There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it."

-- Joseph Addison

#Nature Quotes #Fall Quotes #Animal Quotes

“When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 17, 2014
“[Nietzsche inveighs] against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks.”
“Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity..”
“Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.”
“I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us.”
“What I hankered for was an account of knowledge which would do far more than get our intuitions about cases right; I wanted a kind of account which would somehow be explanatory.”
“Red herrings are fake clues put in place by writers and bad guys to stop you guess what's really going on. One of the most common is the mysterious death with no identifiable body - or, as I call it, the 'Dead Herring'.”
“Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.”

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