An interesting quotation shared by Jonathan Carroll:

Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what they look like to someone who is totally in love with them. I think everyone has had someone look at them that way, whether it was a lover, or a parent, or a friend, whether they know it or not. It’s a wonderful ( Read more... )

"DNA isn't changeless. It struggles to remember itself, but it never remembers itself perfectly. Remembering a fish, it imagines a lizard. Remembering a horse, it imagines a hippopotamus. Remembering an ape, it imagines a man."

--Robert Charles Wilson, Julian Comstock, p. 16 ( Read more... )

I'll have an actual review as soon as I finish, but in the meantime, here's another passage that I want to capture:

As I noted at the beginning of this book, we take rightness to be our steady state, while experiencing error as an isolated incident, no matter how many times it has happened to us. This might be a pragmatic choice--just a strategy ( Read more... )

I've been holding off talking much about Being Wrong, the book by Kathryn Schulz that is rocking my world of late, but these words really struck me and I want to note and share them while I'm looking at the right page (246):

...as seen from the outside, denying error looks irrational, irresponsible, and ugly, while admitting it looks like courage ( Read more... )

This quotation, pulled from jonathancarroll's post this morning deftly encapsulates one of the most heartbreaking and frustrating things for me ( Read more... )

Over in her blog, Jane Fonda shared this quotation:

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of ( Read more... )

Freedom rings when it's getting hammered.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-~Winston Churchill

I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one
hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.
-E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)

The following is a passage from The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin that frequently comes to mind when I think about, oh, a whole range of subjects. This time it was triggered by something that lifecollage posted, but when I found it, I realized that it was perhaps less relevant to her post than I originally thought and that I would like to have it in my ( Read more... )