#log

We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about every day, too many new things we have to learn. New styles, new information, new technology, new terminology … But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#technology

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#scientific-method #style

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. ↗

— John Green

#people

Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#joy #fun

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#draco-malfoy #harry-potter #neville-longbottom #ron-weasley #stupidity

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#resentment #bad

Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really. ↗

— Anne Rice

#satan #vampire #children

It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#ideology

It's all in the mind. ↗

— George Harrison

#mind #perception #psychology #perception

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. ↗

— Rachel Carson

#ecology #reality #universe #wonder #wonder