I fell in love with
The ancient existence
Of you
The soul which had loved
For milennia
The spirit which had died
A thousand times
The person who knew sadness
As a great companion
And happiness
As a great gift
I fell in love with
The clockwork in your eyes
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“The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. This is the way opinions are held in science, as opposed to the way in which they are held in theology.”
-Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race. Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex. Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other species. The pattern is identical in each case.
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| — | Peter Singer, Animal Liberation (via philphys) |
An artist’s conception of stars moving in the central regions of a giant elliptical galaxy that harbors a supermassive black hole.
CREDIT: Gemini Observatory/AURA artwork by Lynette Cook
Related to this article: New telescope to take first-ever black hole photo
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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| — | Kurt Vonnegut (via whoopiepiesandbowties) |
When Bad Science Kills, Or How To Spread AIDS
Anyone who cares about the public health and saving lives must read this post.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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| — | Plato (via zerooneinfinity) |
Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.
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| — | Louise Erdrich (via psychoneurogenesis) |
It’s a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them—and they simply don’t need you. That’s all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they’ll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on—this desperate need—and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.
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| — | Madeleine L’Engle (via psychoneurogenesis) |
