I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.

A question asked in earnest, deserves an earnest answer.

What if I said I wanted a friend?' The ship crouches among the fresh-cut stalks. 'Or a lover? That's how you make a person, yes? By affection and intimacy. By touches like knives in a salted bed.

Benjanun Sriduangkaew

For a thought to manifest on the earth realm, a sacrifice must occur.

Lawren Leo

People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.

Trevor D. Richardson

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a great lesson so learn it to be great.

Debasish Mridha

...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.

René Descartes

True love doesn't expect anything but it does gives everything

Debasish Mridha

Time is the moving image of eternity.

Plato

Vision differentiates between a follower and a leader.

Debasish Mridha

If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality?

Lionel Suggs

All incoming bits of information have, simultaneously, a tentacular, optic, and sexual dimension. Its world is not doubtful, but surprising; vampyroteuthic thinking is an unbroken stream of Aristotelian shock.

Vilém Flusser

The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, follows the same law: all colours are aﬀected in the ﬁrst place, and lose their saturation. Then the spectrum is simpliﬁed, being reduced to four andsoon to two colours; ﬁnally a grey monochrome stage is reached, although the pathological colour is never identiﬁable with any normal one. Thus in central as in peripheral lesions ‘the loss of nervous substance results not only in a deﬁciency of certain qualities, but in the change to a less diﬀerentiated and more primitive structure’.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life.

Chris Prentiss

Happiness is an inner perception, not an outer realistic conception.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.

Debasish Mridha

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is a perception of what you have, not what you should have.

Debasish Mridha

If you want to change anything or your surroundingChange your perception, it will change everything.

Debasish Mridha

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception Not on the situation.

Debasish Mridha

Often pain is not real but just a perception.

Debasish Mridha

But, then, the truest perceptions of life, for me at least, have always proved to be the most elusive and the most shortlived

Arun Joshi

For until this morning I had known contemplation only in its humbler, its more ordinary forms - as discursive thinking; as a rapt absorption in poetry or painting or music, as a patient waiting upon those inspirations, without which even the prosiest writer cannot hope to accomplish anything; as occasional glimpses, in nature, of Wordsworth's 'something far more deeply interfused'; as systematic silence leading, sometimes, to hints of an 'obscure knowledge'. But now I knew contemplation at its height.

Aldous Huxley

I understand the sacred words of the sacred souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A sailor's love for the sea is only matched by his mistress's salty kiss.

Anthony T.Hincks

When you kiss me,your lips upon mine,your kisses taste so sweet,just like a glass of good wine.

Anthony T.Hincks

When you love someone deeply,Say it with a flower,And seal it with a kiss.

Anthony T.Hincks

Someday, it will be hard to remember why we were once so fired up about 3G connectivity and the wonders of mobile broadband. Seamless, lightning-fast connectedness will be a given everywhere on Earth, and today's gadgets will be quaint museum pieces. At that point, all we'll care about is what kind of life these devices have created for us. And if it isn't a good life, we'll wonder what we did wrong.

William Powers

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

Neil Postman

Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because memes that validate spiritual order tend to lose their credibility with time, and need to be recast in new forms again and again. At present we are living in an era when many of the basic tenets of Christianity, which has supported Western spiritual values for almost two thousand years, have come into conflict with the conclusions of science and philosophy. While religions have lost much of their power, science and technology have not been able to generate convincing value systems to replace them.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.

Bilal Hussain

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

David Cronenberg

Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms, partly from the actual annihilation of matter through the union of electrons and protons to form radiation, completely abolished the whole grotesque burden of drudgery which hitherto had seemed the inescapable price of civilization, nay of life itself. The vast economic routine of the world-community was carried on by the mere touching of appropriate buttons. Transport, mining, manufacture, and even agriculture were performed in this manner. And indeed in most cases the systematic co-ordination of these activities was itself the work of self-regulating machinery. Thus, not only was there no longer need for any human beings to spend their lives in unskilled monotonous labour, but further, much that earlier races would have regarded as highly skilled though stereotyped work, was now carried on by machinery. Only the pioneering of industry, the endless exhilarating research, invention, design and reorganization, which is incurred by an ever-changing society, still engaged the minds of men and women. And though this work was of course immense, it could not occupy the whole attention of a great world-community. Thus very much of the energy of the race was free to occupy itself with other no less difficult and exacting matters, or to seek recreation in its many admirable sports and arts. Materially every individual was a multi-millionaire, in that he had at his beck and call a great diversity of powerful mechanisms; but also he was a penniless friar, for he had no vestige of economic control over any other human being. He could fly through the upper air to the ends of the earth in an hour, or hang idle among the clouds all day long. His flying machine was no cumbersome aeroplane, but either a wingless aerial boat, or a mere suit of overalls in which he could disport himself with the freedom of a bird. Not only in the air, but in the sea also, he was free. He could stroll about the ocean bed, or gambol with the deep-sea fishes. And for habitation he could make his home, as he willed, either in a shack in the wilderness or in one of the great pylons which dwarfed the architecture even of the American age. He could possess this huge palace in loneliness and fill it with his possessions, to be automatically cared for without human service; or he could join with others and create a hive of social life. All these amenities he took for granted as the savage takes for granted the air which he breathes. And because they were as universally available as air, no one craved them in excess, and no one grudged another the use of them.

Olaf Stapledon

ADVERSE REVERSEAdvanced technology has regressed us into warmongering apes with superior weaponsKamil Ali

Kamil Ali

My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.

Bernard Stiegler

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.

R.F. Georgy

You can tell if a person is organized by checking his desktop.

Ali AlJa'bari

The information superhighways will have the same effect as our present superhighways or motorways. They will cancel out the landscape, lay waste to the territory and abolish real distances. What is merely physical and geographical in the case of our motorways will assume its full dimensions in the electronic field with the abolition of mental distances and the absolute shrinkage of time. All short circuits (and the establishment of this planetary hyper-space is tantamount to one immense short circuit) produce electric shocks. What we see emerging here is no longer merely territorial desert, but social desert, employment desert, the body itself being laid waste by the very concentration of information. A kind of Big Crunch, contemporaneous with the Big Bang of the financial markets and the information networks. We are merely at the dawning of the process, but the waste and the wastelands are already growing much faster than the computerization process itself.

Jean Baudrillard

To gain control over a large number of people you do not have to place them in containers with suction caps attached to their bodies like in the film “The Matrix”. It is enough to create an all-encompassing information network because then people will automatically take their places in its cells.

Vadim Zeland

No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Happiness lies in simplicityComplexity brings anxiety.

Debasish Mridha

Facing up to non-being enables us to put our life into perspective, see it in its entirety, and thereby lend it a sense of direction and unity. If the ultimate source of anxiety is fear of the future, the future ends in death; and if the ultimate source of anxiety is uncertainty, death is the only certainty. It is only by facing up to death, accepting its inevitability, and integrating it into life that we can escape from the pettiness and paralysis of anxiety, and, in so doing, free ourselves to make the most out of our lives and out of ourselves.

Neel Burton

Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary.

Wallace Stegner

I am a great success, not because of what I have, but because, through service, I found enduring happiness.

Debasish Mridha

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is the ultimate purpose of our life and you find it in service.

Debasish Mridha

There is only one way to happiness and that is through service.

Debasish Mridha

Life becomes invaluable when we spend it in the service of others.

Debasish Mridha

Being a samurai is all about selfless service and if the lord abuses the servant, it is no longer a situation of service; it becomes the situation of a victim. It is never acceptable for a samurai to be a victim. It is never acceptable to allow a lord to abuse you or rob you of your dignity. In such a situation, it is acceptable to walk away.

Alexei Maxim Russell

Ellie tells me, often, some variation on this theme: that I am a little too invested in how I'm feeling about church and God, and perhaps not invested enough in how I am serving church, God, neighbor.

Lauren F. Winner

FRACTURED FACTIONSMany cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots

Kamil Ali

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

Plato

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

Isaac Newton

I had travelled from Spain into Morocco and from there south to the Atlas Mountains, at the edge of the Sahara Desert…one night, in a youth hostel that was more like a stable, I woke and walked out into a snowstorm. But it wasn’t the snow I was used to in Minnesota, or anywhere else I had been. Standing bare chest to cool night, wearing flip-flops and shorts, I let a storm of stars swirl around me. I remember no light pollution, heck, I remember no lights. But I remember the light around me-the sense of being lit by starlight- and that I could see the ground to which the stars seemed to be floating down. I saw the sky that night in three dimensions- the sky had depth, some stars seemingly close and some much farther away, the Milky Way so well defined it had what astronomers call “structure”, that sense of its twisting depths. I remember stars from one horizon to another, making a night sky so plush it still seems like a dream.It was a time in my life when I was every day experiencing something new. I felt open to everything, as though I was made of clay, and the world was imprinting on me its breathtaking beauty (and terrible reality.) Standing nearly naked under that Moroccan sky, skin against the air, the dark, the stars, the night pressed its impression, and my lifelong connection was sealed.

Paul Bogard

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