LitMind

2021-09-03 14:10:17 It is a privilege to be able to remain unaffected by any changes in the ruling class. Open / Comment

2021-08-27 20:41:42 “Only optimists commit suicide, the optimists who can no longer be... optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why should they have any to die?”
— Emil Cioran Open / Comment

2021-08-26 12:55:06 “One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.”
— Claude Lévi-Strauss Open / Comment

2021-08-24 22:38:10 “That the unconscious extends so far beyond consciousness is simply the counterpart of the fact that the exterior world extends so far beyond our visual field.”
— Charles Baudouin Open / Comment

2021-08-23 21:55:51 “Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.”
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali Open / Comment

2021-08-23 20:52:10 “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it.”
— Brandolini's law Open / Comment

2021-08-20 00:34:18 Curiosity begs analysis, analysis produces new ideas, new ideas require names, those name form a theory, a consistent theory is eventually applicable, and that application will probably improve the quality of our lives, which will generate demand, around which a business can be based, which will lead to income.

Scientific curiosity, and of course a freedom to act on it, is a neverending source of prosperity and progress. Open / Comment

2021-08-18 23:47:02 Apologize to anyone you've wronged, no matter how late.

You never know who might really need to hear it. Open / Comment

2021-08-16 02:55:53 Do things from love,



not for love. Open / Comment

2021-08-15 17:22:25 “Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.”
— Ward Cunningham Open / Comment