#w

The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives. ↗

— Jürgen Moltmann

#knowledge #life

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#apple #apples #cart #rot #upset

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#drugs #liberty #privacy #urinalysis #war-on-drugs

It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you’ll ever witness. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#life #perspective #questions #rock #storm

The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something more-something better-just beyond where they are. Small-town life. ↗

— Courtney Summers

#courtney-summers #fall-for-anything #life #small-town #life

Life is not worth living unless you live it for the One who gave you life. ↗

— Anya vonderLuft

#life

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#few #keep #most #pitches #pitching

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#minds #only #refuge #weak #weak minds

Jobs had begun to drop acid by then, and he turned Brennan on to it as well, in a wheat field just outside Sunnyvale. "It was great," he recalled. "I had been listening to a lot of Bach. All of a sudden the whole field was playing Bach. It was the most wonderful feeling of my life up to that point. I felt like the conductor of this symphony with Bach coming through the wheat. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#lsd #music #mystical #psychological #steve-jobs

Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit. ↗

— Juan Mascaró

#life