Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 26 “ You can imagine the opposite.” ―  Maurizio Nannucci Triggered by a visit to Lenbachhaus in Munich. Related : Quote of the Week 20 “Everything you can imagine is real.” ―  Pablo Picasso Other themes  of neon texts created by Nannucci : “ All art has been contemporary.” “ Light and beauty are two unquestionable facts.” “ Listen to your eyes.” “ The missing poem ist the poem.” “ Events take time events take space. ” “ In regard to simplicity nothing is defined .” “ Some words different thoughts. ” “I mages are the origin of language .”

Quote of the Week 25 “ What can be shown cannot be said.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein   Triggered by  Hartmut Esslinger 's comment on Apple's "Liquid Glass" UI. From the  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy : Wittgenstein does not, however, relegate all that is not inside the bounds of sense to oblivion. He makes a distinction between saying and showing which is made to do additional crucial work. “What can be shown cannot be said,” that is, what cannot be formulated in sayable (sensical) propositions can only be shown. This applies, for example, to the logical form of the world, the pictorial form, etc., which show themselves in the form of (contingent) propositions, in the symbolism, and in logical propositions. Even the unsayable (metaphysical, ethical, aesthetic) propositions of philosophy belong in this group—which Wittgenstein finally describes as “things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical”. “ Was gezeigt werden...

Quote of the Week 24 “ Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” ―  Sharon Begley ;   attributed   to  Carl Sagan Triggered by a @ProfFeynman  tweet : "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." — Carl Sagan — Library Path (@LibraryPath) March 20, 2025 While this quote is widely attributed to Carl Sagan, it is actually from a 1977 Newsweek profile of Carl Sagan written by Sharon Begley. Source:   Laidlaw Scholars

Quote of the Week 23 “ We've got to get in to get out.” ― Peter Gabriel , Carpet Crawlers (Lyrics) Triggered by the introductory tunes of Ordinary by Alex Warren.