Quote of the day

[Magical Realist]

"It will happen to all of us that at some point you'll be tapped on the shoulder and told - not just that the party is over - but slightly worse: the party's going on but you have to leave."
— Christopher Hitchens

[Magical Realist]

It is a bittersweet truth that nothing ever remains the same. The new eventually becomes old, and yet everything that ends will begin anew, in a new way. The shape of the cosmos is a revolving spiral.

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[Magical Realist]

"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war... Mostly the animals understand their roles, but man, by comparison, seems troubled by a message that, it is often said, he cannot quite remember or has gotten wrong... Bereft of instinct, he must search continually for meanings... Man was a reader before he became a writer, a reader of what Coleridge once called the mighty alphabet of the universe."----Loren Eiseley

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[Magical Realist]

“Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
wheelchair.”― Dorothy Parker

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[Magical Realist]

"Well, what does ‘free’ mean? Free means being, for one thing. It means being able to outgrow that knee-jerk reflection of what your human society around you wants you to think – and so ‘free’ means thinking for yourself and not accepting every piece of information or opinion heedlessly."~ Gary Snyder

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[Magical Realist]

“We laughed about a lot of things that we should have taken more seriously. But no matter how serious or dangerous the situation was, we always found something to laugh about later on. It always seemed better to laugh than to cry. We had to laugh to keep from crying.”― Blanche Caldwell Barrow, My Life with Bonnie and Clyde

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[Magical Realist]

"There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical."---Ludwig Wittgenstein

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[Magical Realist]

“Modern persons in general cannot conceive of any other science than that of things that can be measured, counted, and weighed, in other words material things, since it is to these alone that the quantitative point of view can be applied; the claim to reduce quality to quantity is very typical of modern science. This tendency has reached the point of supposing that there can be no science, in the real meaning of the word, except where it is possible to introduce measurement, and that there can be no scientific laws except those that express quantitative relations. [...] We will not dwell on the mistake of seeking to reduce
quality to quantity, [...] we will remark only, in this connection, that even in the sensible order, a science of this kind has but little connection with reality, the greater part of which is bound to elude it.”― René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World

[Magical Realist]

“What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.”― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

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[Magical Realist]

The best thing my life of education taught me is that noone really knows anything for sure and that for all we know the Universe just might turn into pickle at any given moment.