Hhdbsn - Malokarpatan

The first [misconception] is that philosophy itself will make you shrewd and dangerous, whereas, in fact, it will teach you to be a fatuous imbecile, but to feel satisfied with your own fatuousness (and, thus, departments of philosophy have neither been the laboratories of revolution, nor even the dodgeball tournaments of revolution).

Les deux têtes (1898) - Auguste Leroux for Victor Hugo’s “La confiance du marquis Fabrice”

Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) Directed by Panos Cosmatos

Marilyn Monroe after announcing her divorce in Beverly Hills, October 6, 1954.

When we are learning, almost by definition, we are going through the harrowing, humbling experience of recognizing how ignorant we really were up until this very minute.

Apollo 17 - Unintentionally blurred, unfocused and incorrectly exposed as we love it!

Silver repousse votive offering

André Brasilier

This Hubble image captures a portion of a dark nebula in the constellation Cepheus. Dark nebulae ― also called absorption nebulae ― are clouds of gas and dust that neither emit nor reflect light, instead blocking light coming from behind them. These nebulae tend to contain large amounts of dust, which allows them to absorb visible light from stars or nebulae beyond them.

Credit: NASA, ESA, T. Megeath (University of Toledo), and K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”

Vincent van Gogh