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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“The Latin word textum means 'web.'”
— Walter Benjamin, Illuminations
Tagged: Word Orgins, Understanding the Web
“The azure of the vast, vaulted sky.”
— Charles Baudelaire, Illuminations
Tagged: Azure, Soothing Language, Sky Descriptions
“Young girls and young men, in all their light-hearted innocence, carried the kind, sweet fruit away in their woven baskets, and in their midst a youth with a singing lyre played charmingly upon it for them, and sang the beautiful song for Linos in a light voice, and they followed him, and with singing and whistling and light dance-steps of their feet kept time to the music.”
— Homer, The Iliad
Tagged: Pastoral, Soothing Language, Idyllic
“I believe in more publishing, not less. The more tools for creations and dissemination, the better. I believe that culture is like democracy, that for all the problems of letting any old idiot vote, it’s better than not letting particular people vote because you don’t think they’re voting the right way.”
— Richard Nash, And we oiled each other up and ran naked in the dust of Sparta.
Tagged: All Thinking is Relevant, Pushing Creativity
“Why should we sacrifice sincerity to politeness? ”
— Mary Hays, The Idea of Being Free: A Mary Hays Reader
Tagged: Hard Cut Questions, Being Yourself
“Do you think someone is a worse painter if, having painted a model of what the finest and most beautiful human being would be like and having rendered every detail of his picture adequately, he could not prove that such a man could come into being?”
— Plato, The Republic
Tagged: Ideals, Implementing Dreams
“Every one of us is like a man who sees things in a dream and thinks that he knows them perfectly and then wakes up to find that he knows nothing.”
— Plato, The Life of the Mind: Vols 1&2
Tagged: You Know Nothing, Ex-formation, Socrates Thesis, (EX)Formation, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“The hope that after many revolutions, with all their transforming effects, the highest purpose of nature, a cosmopolitan existence, will at last be realized within which all the original capacities of the human race may be developed.”
— Immanuel Kant, The Life of the Mind: Vols 1&2
Tagged: Revolution, Secular Redemption, Christian Science
“You see in Kant a clash between the principle according to which you act and the principle according to which you judge.”
— Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind: Vols 1&2
Tagged: Deep Thought Issues, Judgment, Moral Codes
“Thinking deals with invisibles, with representations of things that are absent; judging always concerns particulars and things close at hand.”
— Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind: Vols 1&2
Tagged: Thought vs. Judgement, Thinking, Thought