An Enthusiasm For Logic And Number Might Overwhelm The Ability To Make Good Judgements, And Form Clear

Oliver Sacks sobre la música

The late, great Oliver Sacks on 9/11 and the singular power of music to provide solace. 

Happy birthday to Fernand Léger, the preeminent painter of the modern city. He developed his brightly colored, machine-inspired style as a response to the sensory assault of the modern metropolis.

“The City,” 1919, by Fernand Léger © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 

The Weather Project | Olafur Eliasson | Via 1 2 3 4

Is there nothing that humans cannot recreate?

SoP - Scale of Environments

El miedo a lo nuevo, sobre todo en el caso de las innovaciones tecnológicas, no tiene nada de nuevo.

Day 39 _ Bicycle.

Things that crumble!

No. I'm not making a problem out of a personal question, I make of a personal question an abscence of a problem.

Foucault, in The Chomsky-Foucault debate on Human Nature

A man in a town married twenty women. There have been no divorces or annulments, and everyone in question is still alive and well. The man is not a bigamist, and he has broken no laws. How is this possible? Where Do Eureka Moments Come From? : The New Yorker

The moral law is more exigent than the law of an actual liberal republic, because it allows no emigration, but it is unequivocally just in its ideas of responsability.

Bernard Williams Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy