#ergo

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#divine #forget #greater #his #life

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#indeed #judging #number #small #themselves

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#learning #nothing #wind #words

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agony #amazing #anyone #anything #apart

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details. ↗

— Joan Miro

#appear #been #characters #colors #details

You see colors no one else can see In every breath you hear a symphony You understand me like nobody can I feel like my soul unfolding like a flower blooming When this whole world gets too crazy And there's nowhere left to go I know you give me sanctuary You're the only truth I know You're the road back home. ↗

— Backstreet Boys

#nevergone #safest-place-to-hide #home

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#consciousness #heroic #our #ourselves #own

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#set #undergone #whole

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty. ↗

— Henri La Fontaine

#country #duty #establish #great #here

And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#also #any #bombs #called #could