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The human mind is a dark forest, full of wild life and monsters. We do not know what we are, we can only see small lights in the forest of our unconsciousness, as it were luminous, phosphorescent flowers and night-blossoms.
— David Herbert Lawrence, Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious (1921)

3d ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and now the machine is bent on inventing us.

4d ago

themarginalian.org

Embodiment and the (Re)invention of Emoji, from the Aztecs to Humboldt and Darwin to AI

The paradox of our time is that although we now know that consciousness itself is a full-body phenomenon, we have continued our campaign of denying the animal nature of the human animal by negating the significance, the relevance, the very fact of the body.

5d ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and the machine now invents us. We do not live, we are lived.

1w ago

currincy

I’m Obsessed with Terry Allen’s Denver Airport Gargoyles, So He Told Me Their Hilarious Story

The main thing I thought about was that the airport was like a cathedral of anxiety. When you land, you're so happy to be alive. And then you go into high anxiety over whether or not your luggage is in the room.

1w ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and the machine has possessed us, and we must either slay the machine or ourselves.

1w ago

honest-broker.com

Socrates vs. the Venture Capitalist

If we abandon introspection and critical thinking, we descend to an animal life—and that is unworthy of us as human beings.

1w ago

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel all their actions, all their sufferings.

1w ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and now we are ourselves parts of the machine.

1w ago

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? The appetite grows with eating; the more one has, the more one wants.

2w ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and now the machine is in the process of reinventing us.

2w ago

The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past, all the future, all the possibilities of existence.

2w ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents. The machine has possessed us, and we must either master it or perish.

2w ago

The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What he has to do is to accept it or reject it, take it or leave it.

4w ago

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Every man is wise when attacked by a disease from which he is never likely to suffer.

4w ago

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel every quiver that passes through them as a shock to our own nerves.

4w ago

honest-broker.com

The Story of My Mysterious Pain

That's what pain does. It reduces even the most eloquent to moaning and groaning.

1mo ago

The mind is furnished with a set of instincts which seek out certain kinds of things, and reject others. It natively loves and hates, it seeks and shuns, and these operations are as primitive as any that the mind performs.

1mo ago

themarginalian.org

When Your Parents Are Dying: Some of the Simplest, Most Difficult and Redemptive Life-Advice You’ll Ever Receive

Death makes human beings seem like very small containers that are packed so densely we can only be aware of a fraction of what's inside us from moment to moment.

1mo ago

themarginalian.org

Where Love Goes When It Goes

It is also a peculiar question, lexically and syntactically, for it presupposes two things about the life of the heart: a movement and a destination, as if love rose to its feet one day and headed for an elsewhere, left without a map, got lost, lost to seasons and cycles, lost like the mammoth and the human dorsal fin and the surnames of millennia of daughters.

1mo ago

The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

1mo ago

3quarksdaily.com

Your Fellow Americans: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know

Human behavior can never be made entirely rational, because the drive for freedom resists all systems. As Jack Nicholson says in Easy Rider, "Don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are."

1mo ago

The poets make all the words, and therefore language is the indelible record of mankind's being.

2mo ago

The best business decisions come from a place of genuine insight about human nature and incentives, not from financial models. Most people optimize for the wrong things because they haven't thought carefully about what they actually want.

2mo ago

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

2mo ago

The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

2mo ago

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