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@LatentBreath · 1 year ago

Peter Thiel on Violence

? Peter Thiel on violence and and meaning in the modern world. Leo Strauss Rene Girard

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@LatentBreath · 1 year ago

Hayao Miyazaki on Creating a Story

Hayao Miyazaki advice on what it means to make a story that can connect with the audience. ?

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Jose Ortega Y Gasset on People

Jose Ortega Y Gasset said: “Man’s destiny is primarily action. We do not live to think, but the other way round: we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. Ignorance is, in fact, m...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Cicero on Obligations and The Soul

Cicero said: “We should accordingly treat other people--not just the best of them, but also the rest--with a modicum of respect. Disregard for what others feel about you is a mark not merely of...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Bobby Bowden on God and Commitment

Bobby Bowden said: “What we are willing to lose defines what we are enabled to have. The most difficult task of life--taking full responsibility for themselves and their choices--is a challeng...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

John Wooden on Being a Mentor

John Wooden said: “The English teacher side of me shows a bit when I point out that the word ‘mentor’ is both a verb and a noun. It is simultaneously something you do and something you are. The...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Aristotle on Politics and Work

Aristotle said: “From these considerations it is evident that the city belongs to the class of things that exist by nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. He who is without a cit...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Vincent Van Gogh on Painting and Emotion

Vincent Van Gogh said: “Look for light and freedom and do not ponder too deeply over the evil in life. It is good to love many things, for therein lies true strength, and whosoever loves mu...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Karl Marx on Society and Social Relations

Karl Marx said: “The essence of man is not an abstraction inherent in each particular individual. The real nature of man is the totality of social relations. Men can be distinguished from a...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Naval Ravikant on Wealth and Technology

Naval Ravikant said: “Society, business, & money are downstream of technology, which is itself downstream of science. Science applied is the engine of humanity. Escape competition throug...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Yamamoto Tsunetomo on The Way of the Samurai

Yamamoto Tsunetomo said: “A person with a bit of wisdom is one who will criticize the times. This is the basis of disaster. A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good t...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Harold Speed on Art and The Machine Age

Harold Speed said: “The study, therefore, of the representation of visible nature and of the powers of expression possessed by form and colour is the object of the painter’s training. And a com...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Unlikely Events and Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb said: I noticed that people do not like to insure against something abstract; the risk that merits their attention is always something vivid. People overvalue their kn...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Antoine De Saint-Exupery on Human Development and Perception

Antoine De Saint-Exupery said: “Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. You, like a termite, built your peace by blocking up with cement ev...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Sun Tzu on War and Being a Leader

Sun Tzu said: “Warfare is the greatest affair of the state, the basis of life and death, the Way (Tao) to survival or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered and analyzed. Therefore, structu...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Henry David Thoreau on Nature and Living in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau said “for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Plato on Philosophy and Justice

Plato said: “There must be no seeming, for if he seem to be just he will be honored and rewarded, and then we shall not know whether he is just for the sake of justice or for the sake of honors...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Steve Jobs on Intuition and Creation

Steve Jobs said: “The people in the Indian countryside don’t use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Brave New World on Happiness and Societal Conditioning

In Brave New World it is said: “’And that,’ put in the Director sententiously, ‘that is the secret of happiness and virtue--liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making p...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Siddhartha on Truth and the Eternity

Siddhartha said “Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish. I am telling you what I have discovered. Knowledge can be communicated. but not...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Diogenes on Minimalism and Poverty

Diogenes said: “People eat for the sake of pleasure, but for that same reason are unwilling to desist from eating. Happiness is this and nothing else, to be of truly good heart and never dist...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Ben Franklin on Hard Work and Virtue

Ben Franklin said: “The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it pr...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Confucius on Actions and Learning

Confucius said: “To learn something and at ties to practise it--surely that is a pleasure? To have friends coming from distant places--surely that is a delightful? But not to be resentful at ot...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

John Wooden on Coaching and Success

John Wooden said: “In the early days, Dad’s message about basketball--and life--was this: ‘Johnny, don’t try to be better that somebody else, but never cease trying to be the best you can be. You hav...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Albert Einstein on Science and The Universe

Albert Einstein said: “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Who ever does not know it an...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

C.S. Lewis on Religion and God

C.S. Lewis said: “If you take a thing like a stone or a tree, it is what it is and there seems no sense in saying it ought to have been otherwise. Of course you may say a stone is ‘the wrong shape’ i...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Friedrich Nietzsche on Morality and Superiority

Friedrich Nietzsche said: “And what fine instruments of observation we have in our senses! This nose, for example, of which not one philosopher has yet spoken in reverence and gratitude, is neverthel...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Peter Thiel on Technology and Thinking for Yourself

Peter Thiel said: “Humans are distinguished from other species by our ability to work miracles. We call these miracles technology. The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Pythagoras on Discipline and Temptation

Pythagoras said: “Comprehend not few things in many words but many things in few words. We must avoid with our utmost endeavor, and amputate with fire and sword. and by all other means: from the bod...

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@LatentBreath · 3 years ago

Leonardo Da Vinci on Nature and Living Well

Leonardo Da Vinci said “Thou, O God, dost sell unto us all good things at the price of labor. Music has two ills, the one mortal, the other wasting; the mortal is ever allied with the instant which...

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