#intro

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion. ↗

— Diane Duane

#first #generation #grandchildren #introducing #now

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in this electronic village, all the village idiots have internet access. ↗

— Peter Nelson

#electronic #idiots #internet #introduced #problems

Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud. ↗

— Roger Q. Mills

#fraud #introduced #nursed #prohibition

It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces. ↗

— Edward Witten

#big change #change #elementary #fuzziness #i

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#been #describe #dominated #equations #exact

Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place? ↗

— Kim Young-ha

#introspection #kim #korea #korean #young-ha

The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986 ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#american #intro #introduction #irony #philosophical

Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it turned against the organism that bore it, strove to fathom and explain the very phenomenon that produced it, a hope-filled and hopeless striving of life to comprehend itself, as if nature were rummaging to find itself in itself - ultimately to no avail, since nature cannot be reduced to comprehension, nor in the end can life listen to itself. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#introspection #life #life

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#psychotherapist #secrets #self-awareness #visions #dreams

...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing? ↗

— R.D. Blackmore

#dreams