The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.
Quote of the Week 30 “ The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are. ” ― Denis Waitley More Denis Waitley quotes .
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Humour is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
Quote of the Week 29 “ Humour is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. ” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein ( Culture and Value , pg. 78) “ Humor ist keine Stimmung, sondern eine Weltanschauung. ” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein ( Vermischte Bemerkungen ) Triggered by the inscription on the fountain at Artur-Kutscher-Platz in Munich.
Time is but memory in the making.
Quote of the Week 28 “ Time is but memory in the making. ” ― Vladimir Nabokov As cited in Recursion by Blake Crouch. Context as provided in Nabokov's interview with BBC-2 in 1969: Let me quote a paragraph in my book Ada : " Physiologically the sense of Time is a sense of continuous becoming. . . . Philosophically , on the other hand, Time is but memory in the making. In every individual life there goes on, from cradle to deathbed, the gradual shaping and strengthening of that backbone of consciousness, which is the Time of the strong." This is Van speaking, Van Veen, the charming villain of mv book. I have not decided yet if I agree with him in all his view's on the texture of time. I suspect I don't. See Restoration of time: Henry Bergson and Vladimir Nabokov for an exploration of Nabokov's notion of time, viewing it through the lens of Henri Bergson ’s philosophy. According to Nabokov “time is essentially memory in th...