“The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.”
— Jane Hirshfield, “After Long Silence
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Category: brainchildren
Cognition
“But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.”
— Samuel Alexander
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About the Future
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
— Niels Bohr
Locked in a Box
“If you keep your emotions locked in a box, then when you want to open it one day you’ll find that they’re gone.”
— M.D. Arnold
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The illusions of Space: Size, Mass and Overlapping
Size – the easiest way to create the illusion of space. Objects farther away will appear smaller.
In another hand, as Bertrand Russell once said, “Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.”
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So, Newton’s law of universal gravitation states that every point mass in the universe attracts every other point mass with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
Today we still use Newton’s formula and force it into all our calculations even though we know it is wrong…
Whereas it is what is holding us back, it is not what holds us to the Earth.
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Overlapping – things that are closer to us may overlap those that are farther away.
But… it is clearly superior to Newtonian gravity, being consistent with special theory of relativity!
Besides, in the words of Winston Churchill, “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.”
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Fill The Empty Spaces!
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Philosophical Abstraction
“Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.”
— Boyd Rice, NO
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The Past Is Beautiful
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
— Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being
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Colorful Dream SS15
“There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and … if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.”
— Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
Just Ask
“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”
— Margaret Thatcher
posted earlier: “Babe in Boyland”, Mermaid, Building an Adventure
Between the Lines
“The best listeners listen between the lines.”
— Nina Malkin, “Swoon”
posted earlier: Pure Pleasure, Different Ways