January 2012
5 posts
“Courage is this thing that you dig out of a pit of shame.”
– Merlin Mann
“The cinema-machine [is] a way of destroying souls by extracting images from...”
– Shaviro on The Kingdom of Shadows by K. W. Jeter
December 2011
2 posts
“we will come upon ourselves again, the city as a circular being.”
– via practiceresearch
"there is no scarcity of resources on Earth, only... →
November 2011
5 posts
“I just want to share good music. Fuck the DJ, the talent is on the turntable,”
– Kenny Dixon Jr. aka Moodymann
“The knower and the known are one”
– Eckhart (via theministryoftruth)
“Always search. Don’t ever give up. And check the b-sides.”
– Gilles Peterson
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live”
– Joan Didion
“In order to make good things you have to care about the culture.”
– Chris Hardwick
October 2011
4 posts
“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
– Slavoj Žižek
“I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more...”
– Richard Feynman
September 2011
1 post
“It’s the business of the future to be dangerous.”
– Alfred North Whitehead
August 2011
3 posts
“The most important piece of furniture in a house is the garbage can. I keep no...”
– Karl Lagerfeld (via claytoncubitt)
“Fear of failure is really fear of change.”
– Merlin Mann
“Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite...”
– Albert Einstein
July 2011
8 posts
“a competence forever bodying itself in a series of concrete performances.”
– Jonathan Miller
“…when a person interprets an ambiguous social situation he is apt to...”
– Christiana Morgan and Henry Murray, Explorations in Personality
“When I talk to young writers, I mostly tell them, don’t do it. Don’t...”
– Paul Auster
“The list of ideals we fail to satisfy is endless but also contradictory.”
– Peter D. Kramer
“Nothing in your life will ever be worse than puberty.”
– Merlin Mann
June 2011
6 posts
“The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,...”
– T. S. Eliot, The Rock
“The cure for loneliness is solitude”
– Elizabeth Bishop
“Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is...”
– Henry Ford
“Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.”
– Sartre (via theministryoftruth)
“The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us...”
– C. S. Lewis, The Weight Of Glory (via theministryoftruth)
“Life is once forever.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson (via theministryoftruth)
May 2011
5 posts
“You cannot separate an artist from what it takes to create his art.”
– Tony Allen
“A problem well put is half-solved.”
– John Dewey
“The branch from which the blossom hangs is niether long nor short”
– Krishnamurti
“The utility of beauty as a legitimate recourse resides in its ability to locate...”
– Dave Hickey, The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty
April 2011
4 posts
“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will”
– Antonio Gramsci
“John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of...”
– Bruce Mau, An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
“Art is the lie that tells the truth”
– Picasso
“What counts is not how clever people are, but how well they’re...”
– Matt Ridley
March 2011
3 posts
“Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us...”
– David Hume (via theministryoftruth)
“Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.”
– Bertrand Russell
“The telling of a story is nothing more or less than the process of the viewer...”
– David Milch
February 2011
4 posts
“Pain is always informative”
– Salman Rushdie
“When you know what you care alot about… you don’t need anything...”
– Merlin Mann