"Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."
Plato
“There’s nothing quite like a real book.”
The Joy of Books
Many sleepless nights were spent moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto to create this video.
(via Sarah Moran)
"I don’t feel rejected by the sky. I’m part of it-tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity. And when I concentrate on the stars, the planets, and their motions, I have an irresistible sense of machinery, clockwork, elegant precision working on a scale that, however lofty our aspirations, dwarfs and humbles us."
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (via terramantra)
(Source: fuckyeahtheuniverse, via materialworld)
"Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves."
John Calvin, Institutio Christianae Religionis
Kester at five thirty till about seven p m, thirteen november twenty eleven. So I found out, after I recorded, and while I was editing this… that my right hand was playing the keys of G minor. And G minor is quite the key.
“G-Moll war für Mozart zeitlebens die Schicksaltonart, die ihm für den Ausdruck des Schmerzes und der Tragik am geeignetsten erschien.” (“G minor was, for Mozart, the most suitable fate-key throughout his life for the expression of pain and tragedy.”)
Says much, without saying a thing. Ergo.
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"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us “universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein
