aphorisms & quotes & statements
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Thank you for your beautiful aphorisms & quotes here.
I hope you've already created your own blog here on Vivaldi.
To avoid any misunderstandings, of course I don't mean this ironically, but seriously.
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@ingolftopf
It is a joy and a pleasure for me,
Thanks to all those like you who work hard to make this and much more possible in the Vivaldi ecosystem. -
"Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate.
We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another."
(Desmond Tutu) -
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You can kiss a nun once; you can kiss a nun twice; but don’t get into the habit.
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"If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent."
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Maszyna tępa, niezdolna do refleksji, robi to, co jej zadać. Bystra pierwej bada, co się jej lepiej kalkuluje — rozwiązać otrzymane zadanie czy też wykręcić się sianem?
Stanisław Lem: „Kongres futurologiczny. Opowiadania Ijona Tichego” -
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
(Oscar Wilde) -
Stanisław Lem - Mathematics about love
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O, nie dożył rozkoszy, kto tak bez siwizny
Ani w przestrzeni Weyla, ani Brouwera
Studium topologiczne uściskiem otwiera,
Badając Moebiusowi nieznane krzywizny!
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"We think too much and feel too little."
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I said in What are you listening to right now?:
Trzy Prawa Lema powiadają, że:
Nikt nic nie czyta;
Jeśli ktoś coś czyta, to nic nie rozumie;
Jeśli ktoś coś czyta i rozumie, to natychmiast zapomina.
Stanisław Lem, Sława i fortuna. Listy Stanisława Lema do Michaela Kandla 1972-1987 -
“When you realize that in order to produce you need authorization from someone who produces nothing, you know that your society is doomed.”
Ayn Rand
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“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
John Rogers
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The two from C.S. Lewis have been resonating with me a lot as I long for less... interesting times.
"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
"The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal."
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"I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm."
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"What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice."
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@nuvolor said in aphorisms & quotes & statements:
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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@Ryszard I knew I was taking a risk . But is it possible to divide the man from the artist?
I mean: can a despicable being, a man with whom I have nothing to do with be a sublime artist?
does it make sense, as users of art, to be conditioned in this sense?
I don't think so.
Caravaggio was a murderer: a murderer...
however fearful, contradictory, disturbing and “problematic” it may be, I think it is a fact that even the most abject being can create sublime art.
in any case, if this quote (or WHO said it) has aroused discomfort and embarrassment instead of pleasure and reflection, I apologize and will delete it immediately.
It really was not my intention to hurt anyone's sensibilities!
i apologize again, sincerely! -
@nuvolor
I did not write - delete. But I think it is necessary to know what views the collaborator you quoted had.Alicja Bartuś: Snując proste opowieści o narodach bez skazy, rozmyliśmy i zaciemniliśmy to, co odróżnia kolaborantów od sprawiedliwych. Ku swojej zgubie.
