Thoughts
Background
This page is a collection of thoughts and quotes that I've come across and spoke to me.
In no particular order:
"The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself." - Immanuel Kant
"A human without a working emotional system has difficulty making choices. A human without a cognitive system is dysfunctional." - Norman, Design of Everyday Things
"The mark of a good education system is the ability to entertain ideas without believing them." - Carlos Tkacz
"Cause is not something you find. Cause is something you construct." - Dekker
"Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul" - Edward Abbey, Author/Activist
"Never meet your heroes" - Proverb
"Sapere Aude!" = Have courage to use your own reason! - Immanuel Kant
"No monarch is superior to him whom we honor." - I. Kant
"I'm living the dream, what the hell am I doing with my life." - Steven Dimmitt
"How you spend your days is how you spend your life." - Steven Dimmitt
"The less we stay about it the better; make it up as we go along." - David Byrne
"It's always around me, all this noise; but not nearly as loud as the voice saying; 'Let it happen, let it happen (It's gonna feel so good) Just let it happen, let it happen.'" - Kevin Parker, Tame Impala
"We are here to keep each other company"
"Things outside of my control do not deserve my attention."
"Hunger is the greatest sauce."
"People make choices on how to get around based on the infrastructure available to them." - Not Just Bikes, Law of induced demand
"Earth does not exist for us to rape"
"It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled."
"Most people would rather live with a problem they can't solve than accept a solution they don't understand."
Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say." - William W. Watt
"Actors and the coordination between them are all equally important" - Dekker
"Big-ass house and big-ass car don't add up when you die alone." - Matt Champion, BROCKHAMPTON
"One story leads to the generous embrace of the living world, the other to banishment. One woman is our ancestral gardener... the other was an exile, just passing through an alien world on a rough road to... heaven." - R. Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
"... we understand a thing only when we understand it with all four aspects of our being: mind, body, emotion, spirit." - Greg Cajete, Braiding Sweetgrass
2022
"Data become informative or meaningful based on their relationship to larger frames of reference and the interests and expectations of the observer." - Mike Rayo, ISE 5760.
"Let your smile change the world, don't let the world change your smile." -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"Practicality is just a defense mechanism against getting your heart broken" - Mr. Regular
"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
2023
"Always caught between the ache and the apathy" - The Beths
"Cuz I'm a young man built to fall" - Young the Giant
"...what one says isn't the whole truth. It's a human weakness. They test others to confirm their own existence"
"I am the captain of this ship, damnit, and I'd like to sail these seas and collect a friendly crew as I go"
"It's easy to make yourself feel bad when you know you could be doing better" - Kieran McShane
"I have no qualifications to pass judgement on shit"
"If you feel nostalgic... I think that means things have gone well so far. Nostalgia is life's way of saying 'keep up the good work'" - J. Cena
"It's time for you to look inward and begin asking yourself the big questions.... who are you and what do YOU want?" - Iroh
"Try again, fail again, fail better" - Samuel Beckett
"Desire is a loaded gun" - Odesza
"I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence" - Jose Olivarez
"There is no greater answer than silence, and no worse punishment than forgiveness"
"Let every situation be what it is instead of what you think it should be"
"how people treat you is a reflection of themselves, not you"