Beauty Quote by Timothy Morton

““Beauty is a nonviolent experience of near death, a warning that one is fragile, like everything else in the universe.””

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Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the…

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'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

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It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney.

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A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the constructivist spokespeople…

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After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can…

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“Wholes subscend their parts, which means that parts are not just mechanical components of wholes, and that there can be genuine surprise and novelty…

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Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective…

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Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation.

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In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few…

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“I call this double truth of a thing its fragility, the inner fragility of a thing is why a thing can exist at all.…

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“Solidarity requires having something in common. But having something in common is exactly what culturalism sees as essentialism, and thus as reactionary primitivism. How…

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Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential.

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

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To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When…

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“do not misunderstand person by beauty You really do not know its real or Mask on dirty thoughts”

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Call her beautiful a million times and she won't believe you. Call her ugly once, and she will never forget it.

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