“The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.”
—Paul Watzlawick (via @rebeccawalker)
collapse and delight
Filed underquotes
thoreau and his trap
... paw into it.
life according to vonnegut
From an oddly inspiring set of faux motivational posters by rtcrooks.
or, as Thoreau put it
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
favorite passages from the book of tea
My last book of 2008, first of 2009, was a longtime favorite of mine and a philosophical classic, The Book of Tea. If you’re not familiar with it, it was published in 1906, written by art historian and curator Kakuzo Okakura. And as you can see from these passages — as with the tea ceremony itself — it's about far more than tea.
“I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.”
—Eartha Kitt
as Wittgenstein said to the cockroach
From Marc Estrin's Insect Dreams | my notes for this book
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts”
—Albert Einstein (according to Tim O'Reilly)
with thanks to mark doty
... she seemed neither to entertain nor to consider anything of our circumstance; she was beyond all that now. She did nothing but love us, and dwell in the world of collapse and delight.
—Mark Doty, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon
