“I want to live before I die. It’s the only thing that makes sense.”
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die (via books-n-quotes)
“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.”
—
Henri Poincare
(via scienceisbeauty)
Abbas Kiarostami, from “A Wolf Lying in Wait; Poems,” published c. 2015
“We know that morality does actually need remote and general standards, and must sometimes demand actions which no reasonable person at the time would consider. We know that a morality which never shocks anybody dwindles into etiquette. … All the same, ideals which nobody can translate into action are wasted.”
— Mary Midgley, Animals and Why They Matter, 9
bury a friend