"The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit; once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning; once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?"
Zhuangzi...VIA Burton Watson -370BCE
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"The simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is the truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true."
Jean Baudrillard...VIA Sheila Glaser -1995
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"Science, however, cannot create ends and, even less, instill them in human beings; science, at most, can supply the means by which to attain certain ends."
Albert Einstein - 1949
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"Look, that room is dead to me now. But, we make the living room, the NEW kitchen. Now, I know what you're probably thinking. Shake, where's the stove? (Sets chair on fire) Here it is!"
Master Shake - 2000
Someone able to laugh at my urge to describe the person i'd like to meet as "Another Solipsist".
Cansei De Ser Sexy
3 Iron
Man vs Wild
I sometimes wonder if reading is nothing more than the act of exposing the brain to varied patterns of visual information so that will reward us with a neurochemical response when it is exposed to patterns that result in neural impulses that it has had in the past. Or something.
In Alphabetical Order chiko... bear grylls... err... ignignokt... chuang tzu... william blake... jonathan ive...