#his

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#religion #science #religion

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history ↗

— Iain Banks

#reading #sci-fi #science

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true. ↗

— Rivka Galchen

#ideas #physics #science #truth #unbelievable

It is your duty,' he said, 'to recover your country not by gold but by the sword. You will be fighting with all you love before your eyes: the temples of the gods, your wives and children, the soil of your native land scarred with the ravages of war, and everything which honor and truth call upon you to defend, or recover, or avenge. ↗

— Livy

#political-philosophy #political-science #speeches #war #love

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#shambhala #teacher

[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. [...] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved the attempt to reconstruct or recover the lost ideal of an art that is integrated with, rather than alienated from, the social. By and large, however, the dominant model of avant-garde art during the modern period assumes that shared or collective values and systems of meaning are necessarily repressive and incapable of generating new insight or grounding creative praxis. ↗

— Grant H. Kester

#art-history #assumptions #avant-garde #fallacy #meaning

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#historical-fiction #romance #scotland #time-travel #time

Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#think

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#history #immigration #politics #revolution #united-states

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. ↗

— Adam Smith

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism