#w

Treatment is the way to go. It can work if you have the right model. ↗

— Joe Williams

#model #right #treatment #way #work

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#power #quotes #response #silence #truth

We inhabit a world so inundated with composite pictorial-verbal forms [...] and with the technology for the rapid, cheap production of words and images that nature itself threatens to become what it was in the Middle Ages: an encyclopedic illuminated book overlaid with ornamentation and marginal glosses, every object converted into an image with its proper label or signature ↗

— W.J.T. Mitchell

#writing #age

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. ↗

— Voltaire

#believe #believing #beyond #consists #power

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue. ↗

— Hugh Bonneville

#clue #everything #got #haven #know

The salamanders, like tiny birds, locked into formation, fly down into the endless mysteries of the transforming water, and how could anyone believe that anything in this world is only what it appears to be— that anything is ever final— that anything, in spite of its absence, ever dies a perfect death? (from the poem 'What Is It?') ↗

— Mary Oliver

#death

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement. ↗

— Kenneth Williams

#comedy #drama #even #familiarity #gives

With riddles as black as coals, and answers as invisible as our past, I can only depend upon the crest of the rolling wave I now traversed; a romance worshiped only by the dreamer in us all, a psithurism of trust making its way through the years of our ascension to one day climb above the kaleidoscopic canopy of this mortal coil. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#fate #love #mortal-coil #mystery #rebirth

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen. ↗

— Confucius

#wisdom #death

A brick could be used to keep you three inches away from death.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny