#ture

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#food

Chairs have legs. Four of them, like my father. Meow.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cats #chairs #dad #family #father

...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows... ↗

— John Geddes

#boughs #food #nature #poetry #sparrows

Nature is never finished. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#nature #never

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#simile #stubbornness #scripture

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#literature #reading #emotion

It was the merit of Gestalt psychology to make us aware of the remarkable performance involved in perceiving shapes. Take, for example, a ball or an egg: we can see their shapes at a glance. Yet suppose that instead of the impression made on our eye by an aggregate of white points forming the surface of an egg, we were presented with another, logically equivalent, presentation of these points as given by a list of their spatial co-ordinate values. It would take years of labour to discover the shape inherent in this aggregate of figures - provided it could be guessed at all. The perception of the egg from the list of co-ordinate values would, in fact, be a feat rather similar in nature and measure of intellectual achievement to the discovery of the Copernican system. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#nature

Don't mistake activity with achievement. ↗

— John Wooden

#acquirement #act #action #activity #attainment

The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#human-behavior #human-condition #human-race #humanity-and-society #internet

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway ↗

— Walt Disney Company

#kids