#ling

Just after they exist, all men start travelling; some towards the land of the truth, some towards the land of the stupidity! Most men are on their way to the second land! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#men

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#loyalty #money #selling-out #money

[...] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.' 'We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#selling-soul #wise-words #money

You can't kick me down, I'm already on the ground. No, you can't, but you couldn't catch me anyhow.Blue skies, but the sun isn't comming out, no. Today, it is like I'm under a heavy cloud." Avril Lavigne (Runaway) ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#down #feelings #music #music

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones. ↗

— Keith Richards

#emotions #keith-richards #language #music #the-rolling-stones

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. ↗

— George Eliot

#music #power-of-music #music

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large. ↗

— Mark Twain

#killing #nature

Another aspect inviting contemplation is the fact that the affective tone of any feeling depends on the type of contact that has caused its arising. Once this conditioned nature of feelings is fully apprehended, detachment arises naturally and one's identification with feelings starts to dissolve. ↗

— Anālayo

#detachment #feeling #meditation #sutra #nature

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught? ↗

— Robert J. Sawyer

#darwinism #evolution #infidelity #macro-evolution #macroevolution

Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You can get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#sailing #nature