The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
—
Soren Kierkegaard
*** On a side note - Happy 200th birthday, Soren Kierkegaard! (5 May 1813) ***
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
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If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something similar might be said about human societies. If two nearby societies are in contact for any length of time, they will either trade or fight. The first is non-zero-sum social integration, and the second ultimately brings it.
—Robert Wright
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
—Ruth Benedict
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
—Claude Levi-Strauss
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Hibiscus ‘Silver Memories’
Dendrobium spectabile
In the Garden of Good and Evil
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If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.
—Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
