#tis

I didn't do music to live; I lived so that I could do music. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#life #music #musician #singer #songwriter

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#isaac-asimov #prelude-to-foundation #science #science-fiction #scientists

Science, where would scientists be without it? They’d probably still be in my basement, where I left them a few minutes ago.
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— Jarod Kintz

#science #scientists #science

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with. ↗

— Richard M. Rorty

#relativism #truth #contemporary

If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat. ↗

— Esther M. Friesner

#irony #politics #supernatural

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#instrumentality #phenomenology #science #scientism #experience

As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be an artist." The small family farm is one of the last places - they are getting rarer every day - where men and women (and girls and boys, too) can answer that call to be an artist, to learn to give love to the work of their hands. It is one of the last places where the maker - and some farmers still do talk about "making the crops" - is responsible, from start to finish, for the thing made. This certainly is a spiritual value, but it is not for that reason an impractical or uneconomic one. In fact, from the exercise of this responsibility, this giving of love to the work of the hands, the farmer, the farm, the consumer, and the nation all stand to gain in the most practical ways: They gain the means of life, the goodness of food, and the longevity and dependability of the sources of food, both natural and cultural. The proper answer to the spiritual calling becomes, in turn, the proper fulfillment of physical need. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#farming #love #spirituality #work #family

Telling a woman that you will be unable to climax unless you are looking at her in a mirror is, in my experience, an excellent way to ensure the only place you will ever see her again is in depressing memories. ↗

— Stephen Moles

#love #mirrors #orgasms #relationships #sex

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#media #murder #television #television

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#funny #revenge #food