Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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| — | Joseph Conrad |
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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| — | Simone de Beauvoir (via sgandhi) |
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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| — | G. M. Trevelyan |
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
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| — | Peter O’Toole (via ageofreason) |
If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.
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| — | Steve Allen (via ageofreason) |
A chart I made, about the kind of people I love best.
This is the kind of chart we love the best: homemade and spot on!
Via the BPS Research Digest: A recent study on the long-term benefits of the Socratic method. In a study of 105 children, all around 10 years old, teachers spent an hour a week for 16 months teaching lessons based on philosophical inquiry. The philosophy-based lessons encouraged a community…
