February 2012
Brand New plan to release new music
commonrevolt:
Brand New are heading into the studio this April, and are aiming to release new music by the end of the year.
Anonymous asked: you're pretty great.
I still want to run away and never come back, only farther each day
“New ideas have a striking similarity to genetic mutations. Now, let us look for...”
– Karl Popper (via stardustman)
“Criticism is often productive, and if we want to, we may call certain...”
– Karl Popper, What is Dialectic (via logicallypositive)
“He didn’t understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the...”
– Meursault in The Stranger, Albert Camus (via saltypain)
fullmetalexorcist asked: We gonna hang out sometime? Eat some lettuce, titrate some solutions. Hit some pedestrians.
“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
– Rollo May (via myseashorebungalow)
“The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic...”
– Rollo May (via soulsoftheuniverse)
“I had no illusions about you,’ he said. ‘I knew you were silly and frivolous and...”
– The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (via swallowingmatches)
I know that I’ve been mad in love before And how it could be with you Really hurt me baby, really cut me baby How can you have a day without a night You’re the book that I have opened And now I’ve got to know much more
Like a soul without a mind
In a body without a heart
I’m missing every part
you are all I really want
fullmetalexorcist asked: I had the weirdest dream ever. You were in it. And you went to a philosophy class, then we ate sandwiches.
forgottenness:
The first time I met Wittgenstein, I was late. “The traffic was murder,” I explained. He spent the next forty-five minutes analyzing this sentence. Then he was silent. I wondered why he had chosen a water tower for our meeting. I also wondered how I would leave, since the ladder I had used To climb up here had fallen to the ground.
— David Lehman, “Wittgenstein’s Ladder”
“Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (via aidsnegligee)
Wittgenstein's Tractatus
boxcircle:
Proposition 7:
“Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.”
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
“I shook off the sweat and the sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of...”
– “The Stranger” by Albert Camus (via playingwithdanger)
“A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the...”
– Gottlob Frege on receiving Russell’s Paradox which undermined his life time project, The Foundations of Arithmetic (1903) (via philphys)
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
– Heraclitus (via iflovebeblind)
bittersweet-distractors:
go away thom yorke just go away i can’t be bothered to deal with you and your stupid perfection today just go
idée:: Thinking About Death →
mleanderkalilprose:
1. Introduction
I. Two men sit silently on a bench in a white room that is empty and enclosed. The man on the left breathes in suddenly and gets up, his eyes fastened to something, his mouth agape, and he runs to the corner and crouches in it, holding his knees and moaning quietly. …
“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalised...”
– Arthur Evans (via ninefoldgoddess) (via sun-hawk, slychedelic) (via streetphilosophers) (via philosophisdom)
Why not. Why not. Why not.
“You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
January 2012
“Reflective consciousness can not apprehend this “Us.” Its appearance coincides...”
– Sartre, in Being and Nothingness (via insearchofwisdom)
“What people would prefer would be to be born either a coward or a hero… If you...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism (via abess)
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Americans Elect is a BAD idea
Especially since the Arno brothers are likely supplying the necessary forgeries to get on state primary ballots.
Words From The Left: “Personally I’m in favor of... →
wordsfromtheleft:
“Personally I’m in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions in the society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism we can’t have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic…
“Teaching self-loathing is one of the primary functions of education in the...”
– William J. Kelleher (via frasebook)
“Now, for the existentialist there really is no love other than one which...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism (via teagan)
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all...”
– Albert Einstein (via kaylasaurus)
“If an anguish still clutches me, it’s when I feel this impalpable moment slip...”
– Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays (via randomglory)
familydontendwithblood:
I got 99 problems and they’re all pages of Plato I need to read by tomorrow.
Unveiled Knowledge: 'West installed Israel to... →
unveiledknowledge:
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the hegemonic powers of the world installed the Israeli regime in the Middle East in a “historical scheme” to gain control over the region.
“Why did they install the Zionist regime (Israel)? To gain control over oil, as well as the popular and…
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“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty....”
– Bertrand Russell (via awkwardohio)
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“When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his...”
– Bertrand Russell (via onethousandandonequotes)
fullmetalexorcist asked: Good answer. Did I mention that Paula Deen is driving the truck? And it's a truck full of BUTTER.
fullmetalexorcist asked: Watching Humanity at its worst, or getting hit by a truck?