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Juha Helminen, “The Knowledge” from Invisible Empire.
“Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.”
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. I have no fear of clarity.”
(via theorthodoxheretic)
“Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.’”
(via heartbloodspirit)
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
“It is possible that there exist human emanations which are still unknown to us. Do you remember how electrical currents and “unseen waves” were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.”
Albert Einstein
(via commondense)
(via rawsilk)
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough: we must do.”
Your knowledge astounds me.
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vouzou
To paraphrase Socrates,
A wise woman knows she knows nothing…
“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.”
(via crashinglybeautiful)
Science Saved My Soul
Through binoculars, for every star you can see with your naked eye you can see 100 around it, all suspended in a gray blue mist. But through a modest telescope, if you wait for your eyes to adjust to the dark and get the focus just right… you will see that mist for what it really is: More stars. Like dust, fading into what tastes like infinity…
I knew the faintest twinkle of starlight was a real connection between my comprehending eye along a narrow beam of light to the surface of another sun. The photons my eyes detect (the light I see, the energy with which my nerves interact) came from that star. I thought I could never touch it, yet something from it crosses the void and touches me.
That blue twinkle will blow up one day, sterilizing any nearby solar systems in an apocalypse that makes the wrath of human gods seem pitiful by comparison—yet it was from such destruction that I was formed. Stars must die so that I can live.
I stepped out of a supernova… And so did you.
“Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve toward a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being; to return to Eden, make friends with the snake, and set up our computers among the wild apple trees. Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution - a melding into the godhead, into love - is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to acknowledge that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions and financial ploys are not merely counterproductive but trivial. Our mission is to jettison those pointless preoccupations and take on once again the primordial cargo of inexhaustible ecstasy. Or, barring that, to turn out a good thin-crust pizza and a strong glass of beer.”
“Authentic self-command is a natural result of self-knowledge. Whoever knows himself commands himself.”
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