"He, who cannot draw on three thousand years, is living from hand to mouth"
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In other words, there is a lot of knowledge on the Planet Earth. If you cannot solve a problem with 3,000 years history, you are living an impoverished life. I believe Goethe refers to poverty in a metaphorical or symbolic way.
Architecture is "frozen music"… Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I was flipping through the pages of chinese philosophy, and all of a sudden these lines leaped out of the page and made me close the book ... simply to think for a while...
“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”
- Chuang tzu ( THE BUTTERFLY DREAM)
- "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. "
- - Bertrand Russell
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
-- Bertrand Russell
If you find yourself spending most or all of your leisure time immersed in mindless television or video games you may wish to reconsider your aspirations. These activities steal time and give nothing back. If you wish to benefit from your leisure, spend it intelligently. You will be rewarded with better health, a finer mind, and fewer regrets.
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“Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."
- - Immanuel Kant
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
-- Kahlil Gibran
“Let Nature deal with matter, which is her
own, as she pleases; let us be cheerful and brave in the face of
everything, reflecting that it is nothing of our own that perishes.”
-Seneca the Younger
“Your
time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be
trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s
thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own
inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart
and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.”
- Steve Jobs
