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Beauty and Truth | Another Noteworthy Year
Topic: Society 9:47 am EST, Dec 23, 2008

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

He wore a crisp dress shirt the color of mint ice cream and a color-coordinated tie, which made him look like an insurance claims adjustor.

My audit group's Group Manager and his wife have an infant I can describe only as fierce. Its features seemed suggestions only. It had roughly as much face as a whale does. I did not like it at all.

garfield minus garfield

Cynicism will lead you to the truth. Or vice versa.

It's not about Truth so much as the illusion of truth.

I'm not saying we should stop, but I think we should at least examine which lies we tell and why.

Officials say some drivers are pretending to be out of gas, just so they can receive a precious, free gallon of fuel.

Stated reasons are often not the real reasons.

He seems to think that the facts speak for themselves. But facts never speak for themselves. We speak for them.

Unlike the laws of mathematics or science, wikitruth isn't based on principles such as consistency or observability. It's not even based on common sense or firsthand experience. Verifiability is really an appeal to authority--not the authority of truth, but the authority of other publications. Any other publication, really.

One of the great aesthetic legacies of the Soviet Union is the great wealth of magnificent propaganda posters it left behind.

One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo's fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl.

Quantum mechanics is the girl you meet at the poetry reading. Everyone thinks she's really interesting and people you don't know are obsessed about her. You go out. It turns out that she's pretty complicated and has some issues. Later, after you've broken up, you wonder if her aura of mystery is actually just confusion.

Girls hang on Virgil Griffith.

In these films, which she researched with the help of Wildlife Conservation Society experts, she not only details unusual aspects of the critters' biology but also dresses up as them and mimics sex with paper cutouts.

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

Sunset over the Pacific Ocean

Ideas are like fish. Originality is just the ideas you caught.

Beauty and Truth | Another Noteworthy Year



 
 
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