#thou

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#arises #begins #does #experience #follow

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#cannot #deceit #facts #generation #historical

These bizarre examples attempt to prove one conceptual point or another by deliberately reducing all but one underappreciated feature of some phenomenon to zero, so that what really counts can shine through. The twin earth example sets internal similarity to a maximum (you are whisked off to Twin Earth without being given a chance to register this huge shift) so that external context can be demonstrated to be responsible for whatever our intuition tells us. ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#experience

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ↗

— Helen Keller

#achievement #confidence #done #faith #hope

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#thoughts-on-life #life

His heart...responds to those once-upon-a-time people, anonymous in the shadows, the faith it took them to come together and rest and listen through the gruesomeness, their patience for the ever after, happy or not. ↗

— Lauren Groff

#faith

Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat travels hovers arounf fifteen hundred miles. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#food-for-thought #meat #food

I pee whilst seated. But it’s hard to focus with people honking at me.
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #random #random-thought #silly

I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you'd give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only. ↗

— Deborah J. Lightfoot

#critical-thinking #decision-making #rational-thought #anger

The Headlights lit the path we were traveling down, but only so far. After that, the world was dark and empty, full of possibility and uncertainty...much like the paths of our own lives. ↗

— S.C. Stephens

#food