Places and people are like things: both made of memories and meaningful to us in the same way: we construct ourselves in our conversations with them.
– Bilal Tanweer in “The Scatter Here is Too Great”
Tag: ideas
Faking It
Living in a 100% real world where everything is 100% truth sounds nice, but mathematically speaking, fakes play an important role in maintaining balance.
– via Nautilus
Idle Talk
Realization: I’m tired of being confined to the incredibly limited dialogue around me. All anyone talks about are events, people, politics, opinions-made-facts-made-battle-cries, and yes I know these things can often be important, but where is the talk about ideas, or, god forbid, life itself? These latter topics are what lend …
On Rebellion
One should not fear the rebel. One should not be afraid of becoming a rebel himself. To do something new has always been called rebellion…What is to be feared is the death of the spirit. To believe only what one is taught to believe, to say only what one is taught to say, to do only what one is asked to do, to find security in life by existing formally like a doll poured from a model, to lose completely the idea of self confidence in ones independence and the belief in self-improvement – this is death of the spirit. To live is to rebel.
– Tokutomi Roka, 1911, Japan