The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance
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Quote:- The danger now is that anti-intellectualism [...] is spreading all over the areas of so-called "Western civilisation". It can take many forms, from aggressive clericalism and atom-bomb militarism to the mild but dangerous pessimisms of Kierkegaard and Satre. All these forms have something in common. They all express the belief that man's state cannot be improved by conscious intelligent co-operation. They want less knowledge and more faith and are unanimous in attacking countries where men are trying to build up a scientific civilisation through their own efforts, and in belittling the beliefs which are leading them to do so - the philosophic system of dialectical materialism.
Engels and Science
Author:- J.D. Bernal
Category:- science
Quote:- The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia.
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
Author:- Simon Reynolds
Category:- time
Quote:- The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Author:- Fulton J. Sheen
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The Danish urban pioneer Jan Gehl made a wonderful illustration that shows the increasing detachment of humans from real life, the higher the storey of their building.
How to Live in the City
Author:- Hugo Macdonald
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The Dark Girl laughed aloud, revealing a gray mouthful of sharp, serrated teeth. "You ask me to prophesy? I am the Mother of Fantasies, the Mother of Faith, Hope, and the Church."De Maillet stared, clutching his ebony cane to his chest. "You are Ignorance.
Crystal Express
Author:- Bruce Sterling
Category:- science
Quote:- The dark side of the butterflies: Another secret of the shadowsThe heart of the universeIt's a summer afternoon.Summer's afternoon!Summer's afternoon!Summer's afternoon!you can feel the dark sideof the butterflies?You can feelmy most beautiful face?Summer's afternoon!Summer's afternoon!Summer's afternoon!
Author:- Daniel Wamba
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The dark sky helps to see the stars... The dark night of the soul helps us to see the light within.
Author:- Bert McCoy
Category:- Love
Quote:- The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
Aesthetic Theory
Author:- Theodor W. Adorno
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the gray was somewhat deeper. Every few minutes, someone would come and paint over the gray with a different-textured gray - one with a touch of gold or green or red. I was impressed with the variety of grays that existed. Human beings were so strange. All you had to do was sit still for ten minutes, and you could see this amazing variety of grays.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Author:- Haruki Murakami
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The darkness of the night does not mean that there is no sun in this universe; Sadness does not mean that there is no happiness in your life: Just change the perspective, everything will change.
Author:- Jignesh Ahalgama
Category:- motivational,motivational
Quote:- The daunting world of love can turn the freest, theuncomplicated, and the most perfunctory souls into thoroughlylove-struck creatures, at lightning speed. Think of it-- from afreelancer to a full-fledged employee.
LOVE TOUCHES ONCE & NEVER LEAVES ...A Blooming & Moving Love Saga!
Author:- Vidhu Kapur
Category:- Love,Relationships
Quote:- The day breaks not: it is my heart.
The Complete English Poems
Author:- John Donne
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.I knew that a part of him would never be the same.They cracked more than his ribs.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Author:- Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Category:- best
Quote:- The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell.His absence wasn’t a problemBut the corkscrew had gone as well.
Serious Concerns
Author:- Wendy Cope
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.
Idle Thursday
Author:- Kelly Moran
Category:- Life
Quote:- The day I no longer walk through the forest with wonder, is the day I no longer belong to this earth.
Mushroom Wanderland: A Forager's Guide to Finding, Identifying, and Using More Than 25 Wild Fungi
Author:- Jess Starwood
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The Day is DoneThe day is done, and the darknessFalls from the wings of Night,As a feather is wafted downwardFrom an eagle in his flight.I see the lights of the villageGleam through the rain and the mist,And a feeling of sadness comes o'er meThat my soul cannot resist:A feeling of sadness and longing,That is not akin to pain,And resembles sorrow onlyAs the mist resembles the rain.Come, read to me some poem,Some simple and heartfelt lay,That shall soothe this restless feeling,And banish the thoughts of day.Not from the grand old masters,Not from the bards sublime,Whose distant footsteps echoThrough the corridors of Time.For, like strains of martial music,Their mighty thoughts suggestLife's endless toil and endeavor;And to-night I long for rest.Read from some humbler poet,Whose songs gushed from his heart,As showers from the clouds of summer,Or tears from the eyelids start;Who, through long days of labor,And nights devoid of ease,Still heard in his soul the musicOf wonderful melodies.Such songs have power to quietThe restless pulse of care,And come like the benedictionThat follows after prayer.Then read from the treasured volumeThe poem of thy choice,And lend to the rhyme of the poetThe beauty of thy voice.And the night shall be filled with music,And the cares, that infest the day,Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,And as silently steal away.
The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems
Author:- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Category:- poetry