May 2012
“If the wolf be at the door, open it and eat him.”
– The Cynic’s Calendar of Revised Wisdom by Oliver Herford, 1904. (via ingridrichter)
“Celebrate kindness. Communicate intention. Concentrate effort.”
– Dan Waldschmidt (via justbesplendid)
“As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being...”
– Steve Maraboli (via justbesplendid)
“Truth is, philosophy is not so much a subject as a skill: philosophy is...”
– Philosophy – Misunderstood (via wildcat2030)
“As in a game of cards, so in the game of life we must play what is dealt to us;...”
– Josh Billings, 1907. The Old Farmer’s Almanac Sampler edited by Robb Sagendorph, 1957. (via ingridrichter)
“But in the end it wasn’t up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (via helplesslyamazed)
“The legacy of “Mythologies” falls short of the complete smashing of signs, the...”
– Roland Barthes: Myths We Don’t Outgrow : The New Yorker (via wildcat2030)
“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due...”
– The Moon and Sixpence, 1919
W. Somerset Maugham
(via analectic)
“E nglish spelling is notoriously inconsistent, and some have gone further,...”
– The myth of English as a global language | TLS (via wildcat2030)
