Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 43 “Aesthetic sympathy is projecting reflections of my own personality onto every beautiful object I perceive. ” ― Theodor Lipps   Triggered by the citation in  Lipps on Empathy and the Aesthetics of Language: The Origins of a Research Program by D avid Romand : “Aesthetic sympathy is relocating impulses of my own personality into every beautiful object that I perceive. ” ― Theodor Lipps     Source: Die ethischen Grundfragen :   Zehn Vorträge , Theodor Lipps, 1. Auflage, 1899. Aller ästhetische Genuss beruht auf solcher Sympathie.    Ich verlege reproduzierte Regungen meiner eigenen Persönlichkeit in jedes wahrgenommene schöne Objekt,  z.B. in die Landschaft, in die Formen der Architektur, in die Klänge und den Rhythmus der Musik, auch schon in die einfache Linie oder Farbe.    Ich "beseele" diese Objekte, genau in dem Sinne, in dem ich den wahrgenommenen menschlichen Körper beseele.   Ich genieße mich selbst, nic...

Quote of the Week 40 “ You got me wanting more when less is what I need. ” ―  Richard Macintyre, SIIGA , "The LCD" - Song Lyrics       Interpretation by ChatGPT:   SIIGA’s “The LCD,”  is  a song about   digital overstimulation and the strange emptiness it creates . At its core, it is about a person caught in a feedback loop: screen → stimulation → desire → more consumption → less satisfaction → more stimulation. The lyrics repeatedly juxtapose   wanting   and   needing . The speaker wants   more , but senses that what they actually need is   less . That makes the song less a straightforward anti-technology statement than a portrait of   addiction to excess —more content, more attention, more connection, more distraction. The   “LCD”   itself works nicely on two levels: LCD = Liquid Crystal Display   — the screen through which this world is experienced. LCD = Lowest Common Denominator   — potentiall...

Quote of the Week 36 “ Do it or do not do it — you will regret both. ” ― Søren Kierkegaard     Triggered by Shreyas Doshi 's  repost on X: You'll regret it if you get married, you'll regret it if you don't get married. You'll regret it if you have kids and you'll regret it if you don't. Kierkegaard said this 200 years ago as follows - whatever you choose, you'll regret it, because the problem isn't in your choices,… https://t.co/y9BEyLjsc1 — blue (@bluewmist) August 25, 2026   Full quote (per Claude.ai): Here's the full passage from  Either/Or  (1843). "Marry, and you will regret it; don't marry, you will also regret it; marry or don't marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world's foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world's foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yours...

Quote of the Week 35 “ Headwinds build character, tailwinds build stories. ” ―  Cycling motto     Triggered by a recent tweet quoting a Northern German proverb: “ Gegenwind formt den Charakter. ” ―  Norddeutsches Sprichwort Leider ist meine Woche #Helgoland schon zu Ende und ich bin auf dem Rückweg. Lassen Sie mich noch eine letzte Anmerkung machen, warum ich seit frühester Kindheit das Meer, die Inseln und insbesondere diese Insel auf hoher See mag. Vielleicht erklärt es das ein oder andere 😉 pic.twitter.com/c2uuKM78bU — Key Pousttchi 🇪🇺 (@keypousttchi) August 21, 2026

Quote of the Week 33 “ Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing. ” ―  Austin Kleon   ( Steal Like an Artist )     More quotes  from  Steal Like an Artist :      “ In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out. ”       “ You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. ”   “ Don’t worry about doing research. Just search. ”   “ When people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. ”   “ Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts. ”        

Quote of the Week 27 “A man's truth is, first and foremost, what he hides. ” ― André Malraux Original ( Antimémoires , 1967 , pg. 16): “La vérité d'un homme, c'est d'abord ce qu'il cache. On  m'a  prêté  la  phrase  d'un  de  mes  personnages :  « L'homme  est  ce  qu'il  fait!»  Certes,  il  n'est  pas  que  cela;  et  le  personnage  répondait  à  un  autre,  qui  venait  de  dire : «Qu'est-ce qu'un homme? Un misérable petit tas de secrets ...»”     This paraphrases a line of dialogue from his own earlier work ( Les Noyers de l'Altenburg , 1943) :  “ Essentially, a person is what they hide : a miserable little pile of secrets. ”   Triggered by a recent  tweet : We are defined less by what we show the world, and more by what we hide from it. pic.twitter.com/sb7DLDcA1E — Dr Pooja Garg (@poojagarg1111) June 21, 202...

Quote of the Week 26 “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.  Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. ” ―  Ralph Waldo Emerson   Triggered by a recent tweet : "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." | Ralph Waldo Emerson — Philosophy Thoughts (@Philosophy_DQ) June 6, 2026 Source : Self-Reliance  (final sentences) from  Essays: First Series (1841) Initial quote   therein - originally by Aulus Persius Flaccus : “Ne te quaesiveris extra. ” (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)