Aesthetics and Thinking

Mother & Father.

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❝In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed”? Instead they say, ‘No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.’❞

— Carl Sagan
(Source: fyeahcarlsagan, via circlesofcircles)

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❝Before you can grow up, you must fall in love 3 times. Once, you must fall in love with your best friend, ruining your friendship forever. This will teach you who your true friends are, and the fine line between friendship and more. Once you must fall in love with someone you believe is perfect. You will learn that no one is perfect, and that you should never be treated as anything less than you deserve. And once, you must fall in love with someone that is exactly like you. This will teach you about who you are, and who you want to be. And when you’re through will all that, you learn that the people who care about you the most are the ones that you hurt, and the ones that hurt you are the ones that needed you the most. But most of all, you learn that love is only a concept and is not something that can be defined, it is different to each and every person on this earth, knowing that everyone only wants to be loved.❞

— Unknown
(Source: eletheowl, via divinalion)

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❝There is a force that is bigger than the government, and that is the power of the people coming together and work as one. This is why we’re feared.❞

— Anonymous
(Source: youranonnews)

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❝Fear is just another word for ignorance.❞

— Hunter S. Thompson
(Source: bodhiduck)

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❝they will always win those battle, they have the bigger guns❞

— words of a revolutionary

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❝There are times when, at least for now, One must be content to love the questions themselves.❞

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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❝From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.❞

— Karl Marx

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❝The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend❞

— Aldous Huxley

Great e-mail from my father including this:

Paychecks, Perception, Propaganda & Power

Humans are a flawed species. Our minds are easily manipulated. We don’t like pain. We prefer instant gratification. We are susceptible to mass delusion. We will often choose hope over critical thought. Those with higher IQs will regularly attempt to take advantage of those with lower IQs. Fear and greed are the two motivations used by the minority in power to control and manipulate the majority. The American people have been led astray by a small group of powerful men. We were herded through a door in the wall of perception that promised an American dream of material goods, entitlements and pleasure with no obligations or responsibility to future generations. There is only one choice that can save this country from ruin. Each individual must make a choice to either to continue supporting the manipulative, corrupt status quo or coming back through the Door in the Wall.

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❝All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.❞

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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❝The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.❞

— Albert Einstein
(Source: rethinksocialism, via guerrillanetwork)

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❝Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?❞

— Havelock Ellis
(Source: heartmindawakening)