The sea isn't inherently supernatural, or even scary. But it holds many unknowns. Sometimes unknowns are the scariest things of all, aren't they? Honey Girl
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Quote:- The seals are scarce and the whales are almost gone.The spirits of the animals are passing away.Amaroq, Amaroq, you are my adopted father.My feet dance because of you.My eyes see because of you.My mind thinks because of you. And it thinks, on this thundering night, That the hour of the wolf and the Eskimo is over.
Julie of the Wolves
Author:- Jean Craighead George
Category:- time
Quote:- The Search for reason ends at the known; on the immense expanse beyond it only the sense of the ineffable can glide. It alone knows the route to that which is remote from experience and understanding. Neither of them is amphibious: reason cannot go beyond the shore, and the sense of the ineffable is out of place where we measure, where we weigh. We do not leave the shore of the known in search of adventure or suspense or because of the failure of reason to answer our questions. We sail because our mind is like a fantastic seashell, and when applying our ear to its lips we hear a perpetual murmur from the waves beyond the shore. Citizens of two realms, we all must sustain a dual allegiance: we sense the ineffable in one realm, we name and exploit reality in another. Between the two we set up a system of references, but we can never fill the gap. They are as far and as close to each other as time and calendar, as violin and melody, as life and what lies beyond the last breath.
Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion
Author:- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
A History of Western Philosophy
Author:- Bertrand Russell
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The search of truth and understanding is an infinite adventure.
Mission Reality
Author:- Abhijit Naskar
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The season was waning fastOur nights were growing cold at lastI took her to bed with silk and song,'Lay still, my love, I won’t be long;I must prepare my body for passion.''O, your body you give, but all else you ration.''It is because of these dreams of a sylvan scene:A bleeding nymph to leave me serene...I have dreams of a trembling wench.''You have dreams,' she said, 'that cannot be quenched.''Our passion,' said I, 'should never be feared;As our longing for love can never be cured.Our want is our way and our way is our will,We have the love, my love, that no one can kill.''If night is your love, then in dreams you’ll fulfill...This love, our love, that no one can kill.'Yet want is my way, and my way is my will,Thus I killed my love with a sleeping pill.
Author:- Roman Payne
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.
When Found, Make a Verse of
Author:- Helen Bevington
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The second decade after first working atop the 13,797’ Mauna Kea is a very risky time in the life of professional astronomy workers.
Author:- Steven Magee
Category:- time
Quote:- The second decade in high altitude professional astronomy is a very risky time for the biological functioning of a summit observatory worker.
Author:- Steven Magee
Category:- time
Quote:- The second fundamental misconception in inductivism is that scientific theories predict that ‘the future will resemble the past’, and that ‘the unseen resembles the seen’ and so on. (Or that it ‘probably’ will.) But in reality the future is unlike the past, the unseen very different from the seen. Science often predicts – and brings about – phenomena spectacularly different from anything that has been experienced before. For millennia people dreamed about flying, but they experienced only falling. Then they discovered good explanatory theories about flying, and then they flew – in that order. Before 1945, no human being had ever observed a nuclear-fission (atomic-bomb) explosion; there may never have been one in the history of the universe. Yet the first such explosion, and the conditions under which it would occur, had been accurately predicted – but not from the assumption that the future would be like the past. Even sunrise – that favourite example of inductivists – is not always observed every twenty-four hours: when viewed from orbit it may happen every ninety minutes, or not at all. And that was known from theory long before anyone had ever orbited the Earth.
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Author:- David Deutsch
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The Second Koran tells us that the darkness in ourselves is a sinister thing. It waits until we relax, it waits until we reach the most vulnerable moments, and then it snares us. I want to be dutiful. I want to do what I should. But when I go back to the tube, I think of where I am going; to that small house and my empty room. What will I do tonight? Make more paper flowers, more wreaths? I am sick of them. Sick of the Nekropolis.I can take the tube to my mistress' house, or I can go by the street where Mardin's house is. I'm tired. I'm ready to go to my little room and relax. Oh, Holy One, I dread the empty evening. Maybe I should go by the street just to fill up time. I have all this empty time in front of me. Tonight and tomorrow and the week after and the next month and all down through the years as I never marry and become a dried-up woman. Evenings spent folding paper. Days cleaning someone else's house. Free afternoons spent shopping a bit, stopping in tea shops because my feet hurt. That is what lives are, aren't they? Attempts to fill our time with activity designed to prevent us from realizing that there is no meaning?
Author:- Maureen F. McHugh
Category:- time
Quote:- The secret is, I say, whispering right into his ear, that yours was the best kiss I’ve ever had in my life.But I’ve never kissed you, he whispers back. Around us the rain sounds like falling glass. Not since third grade, anyway. I smile, but I’m not sure if he can see it.Better get started, then, I say, because I don’t have much time.
Before I Fall
Author:- Lauren Oliver
Category:- time
Quote:- The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.
Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Walking Toward Enlightenment
Author:- Thich Nhat Hanh
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience shows that intelligence is the only presently acting cause of information, we can infer that intelligence is the best explanation for the information in DNA.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design
Author:- Jonathan Wells
Category:- science
Quote:- The secret of existence is that, ontologically, mathematics is indistinguishable from light, and light is the basis of mind. Your mind is nothing other than a complete and consistent set of natural photons. Photons have no extension in space and time, meaning that they are outside space and time. They are in the frequency Singularity of immortal things rather than the spacetime world of mortal things. Light World is Soul World, and only math is relevant to this world. Science, the subject that deals with matter, has no application to Soul World. Photons have no mass, hence are not part of material existence. Photons have no extension, no dimensions, and do not experience space and time, all of which is exactly what we require of the immortal soul. When you switch on a light, light does not flood into spacetime. Rather, spacetime interacts with Soul World – spacetime flows through Soul World – producing the characteristic glow of light. Photons are the thoughts of the Cosmic Soul.
The Mathematics of Angels
Author:- Jack Tanner
Category:- science
Quote:- The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care.
Author:- Debasish Mridha
Category:- philosophy,knowledge,hope
Quote:- The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is.
Author:- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The secret of producing meaningful and powerful knowledge is simple: be sincere. We must strive to be sincere in the way we approach any question, to be sincere in understanding our limits and blind spots, and to acknowledge our strengths and weaknesses at all times. I have learned that objectivity is impossible, but sincerity is not. It is the latter that brings us the closest possible to objectivity, and only through sincerity we can build bridges of reconciliation between the subjective and the objective.
Author:- Louis Yako
Category:- knowledge