“It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile . . . That is not imagination. No, it kills it. . . . Your universities? Oh, yes, you have learned men who collect . . . facts, and facts, and empires of facts. But which of them will rekindle the light within?”
― E. M. Forster
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the invisible nervous system which binds individual minds into a cloud of collective consciousness. philosophically, it a synthesis of Kurzweillian singularity and Jungian synchronicity as mankind transcends our savage creation.
― zschleyin
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“Among ordinary people, where grand passions speak only at intervals, the sentiments of nature are more often heard. In more elevated ranks the latter are completely stifled, while, from behind a mask of sentiment, all that speaks is self-interest and vanity.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau
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epitaph – words once said that are now dead or dying. while they may hold honor, they are only remembered by those who loved them.
— zschleyin
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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
— Fake John Steinbeck Quote
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