Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Oct 25, 2020 07:33 PM

"We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for."---Malcolm Gladwell

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Oct 26, 2020 06:58 PM by Magical Realist.)

“The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.” – Barry Lopez

"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."--Niels Bohr

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Oct 27, 2020 08:43 PM by Magical Realist.)

"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."-Niels Bohr, Danish physicist

“Ontology is more like a playground than a science.”
― Richard Rorty

**Magical Realist** · Oct 28, 2020 07:30 AM

“Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.”
― Henry Rollins, Smile, You're Traveling: Black Coffee Blues Part 3

**Magical Realist** · Oct 28, 2020 05:50 PM

“To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. "---Friedrich Nietzsche

**Magical Realist** · Oct 29, 2020 07:53 AM

“I'm deeper than the shit I'm in and I don't really give a damn.”
― Iggy Pop, The Complete Lyrics of Iggy Pop 1969-1999

**Magical Realist** · Oct 30, 2020 06:14 PM

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

**Magical Realist** · Oct 31, 2020 05:11 PM

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

**Magical Realist** · Nov 1, 2020 06:24 PM

“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

**Magical Realist** · Nov 2, 2020 08:40 PM

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women