January 2011
77 posts
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“ “Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior...”
– Carlos Castaneda, anthropologist
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“ Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici
— By the power of truth, I, while living,...”
– V for Vendetta, Latin phrase
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“ “The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to...”
– H.L. Mencken, American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture (1880-1956)
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“ “If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china...”
– Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature (1872-1970)
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“ “If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means...”
– Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
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“Steven Pinker on the Positive-Sum Games
“(…) The biologists John...”
– Steven Pinker answering the question What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?, Edge: The World Question Center 2011
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“John Tooby answering the question What scientific concept would improve...”
– John Tooby (Founder of field of Evolutionary Psychology; Co-Director, UC Santa Barbara’s Center for Evolutionary Psychology), What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?, Edge: The World Question Center 2011
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“ “The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked...”
– Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born American anthropologist and author (1925-1998)
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“ “For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious,...”
– Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born American anthropologist and author (1925-1998), Journey to Ixtlan, Simon & Schuster, 1972
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“ “We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into...”
– Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born American anthropologist and author (1925-1998), A Separate Reality
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“ “You must always keep in mind that a path is only a path. Each path is only one...”
– Carlos Castaneda, anthropologist (1925 - 1998), The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (tnx crashinglybeautiful)
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“Homo Sensus-Sapiens: The animal that feels and rationalizes
“We modern...”
– Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán (Colombian philosopher, Ms. in political science and social scientist), answering the question What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?, Edge: The World Question Center 2011. See also: ☞ Viruses, information and functionalism
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“ “For the special thrilling quality of their friendship was in their...”
– Katherine Mansfield, modernist writer of short fiction (1888-1923), The Collected Stories
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“ “The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark...”
– Katherine Mansfield, modernist writer of short fiction (1888-1923)
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“ “Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human...”
– Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress, Da Capo Press, 2005, p. 109.
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“ “An objective meaning - that is, one which is inherent within the...”
– E. D. Klemke, cited in Steve Stewart-Williams , The Meaning of Life Revealed! Evolution and the ultimate purpose of life, Psychology Today, Jan 8, 2011
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“On the Size of a Thought
“How “big” is a thought? Nicholson...”
– On the Size of a Thought , Taking note, Dec 31, 2010
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“On the Size of a Thought
“How “big” is a thought? Nicholson...”
– On the Size of a Thought , Taking note, Dec 31, 2010
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“ “There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it’s up to you to...”
– B. Quilliam
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“ “There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it’s up to you to...”
– B. Quilliam
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“ “The truth is that human society and culture are a vast meta-mind with...”
– Ben Goertzel, The Sociocultural Mind, IEET, Apr 15, 2010
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“ “The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the...”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, 1955, p. 36.
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“ “We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is...”
– Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science popularizer (1934-1996)
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“ “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that...”
– Mark Twain, American author and humorist (1835-1910)
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“ “Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an...”
– Douglas Adams, English writer and dramatist (1952-2001), Speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge, UK, (1998)
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“ “Just supposing,” he said, “just supposing” — he...”
– Douglas Adams, English writer and dramatist (1952-2001)
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“ “Metaphor is our most striking evidence of abstractive seeing, of the...”
– Susanne K. Langer (1957), American philosopher (1895-1985)
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“ “Imagine being born into a dream: a mass illusion transformed over...”
– James Blanchard Cisneros (via likethesun)
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“ “Imagine being born into a dream: a mass illusion transformed over...”
– James Blanchard Cisneros (via likethesun)
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“ “Tomber amoureux. To fall in love. Does it occur suddenly or gradually? If...”
– Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, prose writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1911-2004)
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“ “Some years ago I had a conversation with a layman about flying saucers —...”
– Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, Cornell University Messenger Lectures (1964)
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“Richard Feynman on doubt and uncertainty
“If you expected science to give all...”
– Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, (transcript source)
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“ “The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”...”
– William Blake, English poet, painter, and printmaker (1757-1827)
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“ “The world is full of signals that we don’t perceive. Tiny creatures live...”
– Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda’s Thumb, W. W. Norton & Company, 1980
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“ “Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are...”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos, p. 339.
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“If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and I don’t know the kind...”
– William Edgar Stafford, American poet and pacifist (1914-1993), A Ritual To Read To Each Other
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“ “Gorbachev was dismayed to find that many Soviet youth, given freedom of...”
– Timothy Leary, Michael Horowitz, Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994, p. 72.
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“ “Human consciousness - as expressed in speech and images, in...”
– Michel Foucault cited in Timothy Leary, Michael Horowitz, Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994, p. 65.
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“ “The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because...”
– Timothy Leary, Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994, p. 248.
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“Timothy Leary on cybernetics and a new global culture
M. C. Escher, Peeled...”
– Timothy Leary, American psychologist and writer (1920-1996), Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994 See also: ☞ The Rise of the Conversation Society: information, communication and collaboration ☞ Luciano Floridi on the future development of the information society ☞ Cyberspace tag on...
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“Timothy Leary on cybernetics and a new global culture
M. C. Escher, Peeled...”
– Timothy Leary, Michael Horowitz, Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994
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“ “In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century,...”
– Timothy Leary, Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994, p. 64.
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“ “We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of...”
– Timothy Leary, Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994, p.48.
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“ “The neurological situation is this: The language circuits of the brain...”
– Timothy Leary, Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994, p. 78-79.
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“ “And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that...”
– Timothy Leary, Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994, p. 37.
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“ “Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is...”
– Guy Davenport, American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher (1927-2005)
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“ “The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because...”
– Timothy Leary, Michael Horowitz, Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994, p. 248.
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“ “The neurological situation is this: The language circuits of the brain...”
– Timothy Leary, Michael Horowitz, Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994, p. 78-79.
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“ “Gorbachev was dismayed to find that many Soviet youth, given freedom of...”
– Timothy Leary, Michael Horowitz, Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994, p. 72.
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“ “Human consciousness - as expressed in speech and images, in...”
– Michel Foucault cited in Timothy Leary, Michael Horowitz, Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994, p. 65. 