It is possible to compromise in certain areas when choosing a partner for life, but never on a cravat. Henry Tilney's Diary
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Quote:- It is possible, in principle, that language suddenly appeared fully formed during human evolution without any gradual or intermediate forms. That notion, a linguistic Big Bang, has been championed by linguists such as Noam Chomsky. But it is extremely improbable, biologically speaking, that such a complex characteristic as our capacity for speech just popped out of nowhere. It is more likely that language evolved in several stages in the same way, for instance, as our large brains did or our toolmaking ability.
The Dawn of Language: The story of how we came to talk
Author:- Sverker Johansson
Category:- science
Quote:- It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.
The Midnight Library
Author:- Matt Haig
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.
The Diary Of Soren Kierkegaard
Author:- Søren Kierkegaard
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is rather weird in essence anyone understanding you has to be able to comprehend a form of your outer consciousness, the expressive formation of actions and speech that display who you are, in itself a task of extreme difficulty. But yet we still expect more and how could anyone understand you deeper or more intimately when even you yourself do not?
Author:- Sayed H Fatimi
Category:- motivational
Quote:- It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
Dracula
Author:- Bram Stoker
Category:- hope
Quote:- It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.
The Snow Leopard
Author:- Peter Matthiessen
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
Walden & Resistance to Civil Government
Author:- Henry David Thoreau
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is sad. I have seen people becoming the people they hate. People becoming the people whom they condemn. People being the problem they fight. People becoming the monsters they fear, because of anger.
Author:- De philosopher DJ Kyos
Category:- best
Quote:- It is said in some of the science literature on cosmological quantum entanglement (which is fancy terminology for biology) that an observation or a measurement is the result of an observer interacting with a system that it is observing while becoming physically entangled with it. In other words. It's all about companionship really. Self-companionship to be more precise. It's simply not good for one to be alone.
Author:- Wald Wassermann
Category:- science
Quote:- It is said it is useless to look for equality in a relationship. Whether you want it or not, one always leads, and the other follows. Maybe we should give matriarchy a chance. But the weight should always be towards one side. As long as we compete for equality, none of us will lead, and none of us will follow.
The World's Most Frustrated Man
Author:- Abhaidev
Category:- Relationships,Love
Quote:- it is said that all people who are happy have God within them
The Alchemist
Author:- Paulo Coelho
Category:- motivational
Quote:- It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the emotion of loss (I do not weep), that is all. For the rest, everything has remained motionless. For what I have lost is not a Figure (the Mother), but a being; and not a being, but a quality (a soul): not the indispensable, but the irreplaceable.
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Author:- Roland Barthes
Category:- time
Quote:- It is said that to know you do not know is the beginning of wisdom. But that does not mean that to not know is the end of wisdom.
Author:- George Hammond
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.
We
Author:- Zamyatin
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
Author:- Jawaharlal Nehru
Category:- science
Quote:- It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,’ we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.
The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
Author:- Cyril Connolly
Category:- science
Quote:- It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is
Author:- W.B. Yeats
Category:- time
Quote:- It is so refreshing...The non transactional nature of true love...Much like the scent from the first bloomed flower at the onset of spring.
Waves Aligning
Author:- Adaora O.
Category:- Love
Quote:- It is so simple, yet so hard for some people to do. If you want someone out of your life then you and only you must tell him or her to leave. This can only be done by you. Otherwise, your silence shouts, I am undecided. When other people get involved it sends mixed signals. If only more people would be so bold, hearts would not linger so long.
Author:- Shannon L. Alder
Category:- Relationships