Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 14, 2020 03:45 AM by Magical Realist.)

"Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 15, 2020 10:07 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.”
― John Archibald Wheeler

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 16, 2020 08:34 PM by Magical Realist.)

“In other words there is something otherworldly about our existence here --something more than matter, more than the body and mind we have been discussing -- in short, something fundamentally and profoundly abstract. And I mention this aspect because it is not at all obvious, indeed scarcely noticed by the great majority of us as we go about our daily lives.”
― Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy

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**Magical Realist** · Dec 19, 2020 10:01 PM

“Taking a final pleasure in what the wind can neither proclaim nor destroy, I am a student of nightfall, I claim no other profession.”
― Loren Eiseley, Notes Of An Alchemist

**Magical Realist** · Dec 21, 2020 09:52 PM

“Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death.
Then, when his soul is naked, is he one
With the man in the wind, and the west moon,
With the harmonious thunder of the sun”
― Dylan Thomas

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 22, 2020 10:39 PM by Magical Realist.)

"America, don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened, and then probably cry a little bit,"--- Colin Jost

“[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.”
― Charles Fort, Lo!

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**Magical Realist** · Dec 23, 2020 08:55 PM

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 24, 2020 08:26 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

**Magical Realist** · Dec 25, 2020 08:46 PM

“You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

**Magical Realist** · Dec 26, 2020 11:06 PM

“Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.”
― Richard Halliburton