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“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
– Marcus Aurelius
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
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Stoic quote image
“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
– Marcus Aurelius
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
Exactly. Disgusting racists with a sinister agenda.
Drove past and the numbers of racists were far lower than they made out, literally about 40 disgusting people who are no doubt just bussing in from elsewhere. Shows how broken platforms like Meta and X really are when misinformation suggesting massive attendance spreads freely.
#booksky
The surest sign of limited knowledge is unwavering confidence, while true wisdom carries the weight of doubt. ChatGPT
Quotation by Voltaire.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire
#quote #philosophy
The principle that underlies the [Stoic] method may be described as depreciation by analysis. When we decompose into its constituent parts the object which has been of so much concern to us, we shall realise that it is a matter of no moment Baudouin and Lestchinsky, 1924. #Stoicism
Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.
- Epictetus
#stoicism #inspiration #philosophy
NATO victory would be straightforward in a conventional war, and we know it
Good Day!
Winter Landscape by Caspar David Friedrich c. 1811
Oil on Canvas
(The National Gallery)
Saturn captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft
I can see Venus from inside my house with the lights on, crazy how bright it is ⭐
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a metaphor here somewhere
🚨 BREAKING: The European Parliament has agreed to approve all seven pending European commissioner nominees.
Will solar PV soon be the cheapest source of electricity in most places around the world?
This Nature paper says yes.
Most surprisingly this is AFTER including short- and long-term storage costs for renewable energy sources.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
it be like that
So sad to hear this
Note to self: use this app instead.
Meanwhile. Elsewhere and Elsewhen...
The first video I share on here has to be my favourite rendition of Whole Lotta Rosie by Tico (parrot) and Frank (non-parrot) of Tico and the Man (a truly great squawk n' roll band)
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Turns out coffee is a heath drink ☕
youtube.com/watch?v=YNKk...
These are the cutting edge technologies of our time. They will be the engine of the second half of this century. If I was a young person today, this would be where I'd be looking to work
There’s a proverb in Naples about people who don’t necessarily know much but like to sound like experts when things are easy. It goes quando il mare è calmo ogni strunz e marenar, or “when the sea is calm, every asshole is a sailor”
