2nd Quote of the Week 25 “ I have reached the State of Enlaughment. ” ― Alan Bipe
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To be is to be perceived.
Quote of the Week 25 “ To be is to be perceived (or to perceive). ” ― George Berkeley The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy summarizes: A mind-independent thing is something whose existence is not dependent on thinking/perceiving things, and thus would exist whether or not any thinking things (minds) existed. Berkeley holds that there are no such mind-independent things, that, in the famous phrase, esse est percipi (aut percipere) — to be is to be perceived (or to perceive) . Triggered by the following question in the book " Dark Matter " by Blake Crouch : Note: In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger proposed a thought experiment concerning quantum superposition known as " Schrödinger's Cat " that asks whether reality itself exists in a definite state before we look. According to Schrödinger’s Cat: The Paradox That Redefined Reality , Schrödinger’s point was not that he believed cats could be both alive and dead—but that the quant...
The words or the language do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought.
Quote of the Week 24 “The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. ” ― Albert Einstein Triggered by François Chollet 's tweet : See also: https://t.co/pYUVXoRwvP — Peter Lipps (@pelimuc) May 29, 2026 For background see: Einstein on The Essential Feature of Productive Thought , fs.blog, Farnam Street Media Inc. (A) The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The psychical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images which can be “voluntarily” reproduced and combined. There is, of course, a certain connection between those elements and relevant logical concepts. It is also clear that the desire to arrive finally at logically connected concepts is the emotional basis of this rather vague play with the above-mentioned elements. But taken from a psychol...
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Quote of the Week 23 “ Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. ” ― Pablo Picasso Triggered by scanning the QR code attached to a wooden sculpture. Source of citation: 1923 May, T he Arts: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Covering All Phases of Ancient and Modern Art , Volume 3, Number 5, Picasso Speaks: A Statement by the Artist (Note accompanying text: Picasso gave his interview to “The Arts” in Spanish, and subsequently authenticated the Spanish text which we herewith translate), Start Page 315, Quote Page 315, The Arts Publishing Corporation, New York. ( HathiTrust Full View ) referenced in Quote Investigator® . I can hardly understand the importance given to the word research in connection with modern painting. In my opinion to search means nothing in painting. To find, is the thing. Nobody is interested in following a man who, with his eyes fixed on the ground, spends his life looking for the pocketbook that fortune should put in h...