Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Doing nothing



You will be civilised on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt -- Nassim Taleb 

Monday, July 4, 2011

Existence



you exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative -- nassim taleb 

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Meaning

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less." Lewis Carroll

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Justification

If I have exhausted the justifications I have reached bedrock, and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "this is simply what I do." --- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tolerance

Tolerating something already suggests some disapproval -- Peter cave, how to think like a bat

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Fear



I led a long and troubled life,
most of which never happened to me.

— MARK TWAIN

Judging goodness



men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging of the good that they go wrong -- Rousseau