When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? – Virginia Woolf (NASA) pic.twitter.com/g4BxOTA1jg
— Philosophers' Mail (@PhilosopherMail) September 1, 2014
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? – Virginia Woolf (NASA) pic.twitter.com/g4BxOTA1jg
— Philosophers' Mail (@PhilosopherMail) September 1, 2014
Discovery of this saying by John Muir at On Being's Tumblr site—
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
reminded me that long ago Leonardo da Vinci wrote
everything connects to everything else
I couldn't find my original citation; I suspect it was given one of Michael Gelb's books and I think a fuller citation is "Study the art of science and the science of art. Everything connects to everything else." This reference is to an article on da Vinci that Gelb published in the Australian GQ.
Sounds like overkill, but it probably works.
Better hygiene through humiliation: A device that reminds doctors and nurses to wash hands http://t.co/q8kXvXnWPS pic.twitter.com/EYMchqU44L
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) August 16, 2014
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say" Italo Calvino via @openculture http://t.co/kKghUmvOI3
— Luca Orlassino (@orlayesno) August 12, 2014
I think this makes a nice pairing with Ezra Pound—Literature is language charged with meaning. Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Also "Literature is news that STAYS news." (ABC of Reading)