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When we are happy, we forget to eat. Then happiness is a primary need, even more important for life than nourishing the body. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#happiness-as-nourishment #importance-of-being-happy #pursuing-happiness #soul-searching #life

Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; (...) ↗

— Tracie McMillan

#food #systemic-devaluation-of-labour #food

Look for people in your life that who will help calm the storms in your soul rather than challenge it to a battle. Peace should always be your first priority.in your life. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #life

Life is a shit sandwich. Eat it or starve. ↗

— David Briggs

#life #philosophy #life

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#feelings #galt-niederhoffer #life #spontaneity #summer

Perception is the illusion that gives all matter mass," The Flight of the Eagle A.K. Luthienne ↗

— A.K. Luthienne

#alchemy-of-the-word #metaphysics #science #science

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#chance #coincidence #darwinism #evolution #god-of-the-gaps

...when the brain is released from the constraints of reality, it can generate any sound, image, or smell in its repertoire, sometimes in complex and "impossible" combinations". ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#science

There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr... ↗

— Jim Morrison

#science

He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch. ↗

— Dava Sobel

#invention #inventors #science #science