Eupraxsophy
The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.
Abraham Lincoln
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
Ian Maclaren (commonly misattributed to Plato or Philo).
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.
Salvador Dalí
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One of the worst feelings in the world is loneliness. Sitting in the dark by yourself in the wee hours of the night gently crying. Nobody knows what’s going on with you. How could anybody realize what’s happening? Everybody you know is resting peacefully in their bed awaiting the new day tomorrow. But for you, there’s no difference in the days. They pass monotonously. And before you know it, it’s all gone.
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One of the great insights of second wave feminisms was the recognition that “the personal is political” – a phrase first coined by Carol Hanisch in 1971. We meant by this that all our small, personal, day-to-day activities had political meaning, whether intended or not. Aspects of our lives that had previously been seen as purely “personal” — housework, sex, relationships with sons and fathers, mothers, sisters and lovers – were shaped by, and influential upon, their broader social context. “The slogan…meant, for example, that when a woman is forced to have sex with her husband it is a political act because it reflects the power dynamics in the relationship: wives are property to which husbands have full access” (Rowland: 1984, p. 5). A feminist understanding of “politics” meant challenging the male definition of the political as something external (to do with governments, laws, banner-waving, and protest marches) towards an understanding of politics as central to our very beings, affecting our thoughts, emotions, and the apparently trivial everyday choices we make about how we live. Feminism meant treating what had been perceived as merely “personal” issues as political concerns.
Celia Kitzinger (1993), Depoliticising the Personal: A Feminist Slogan in Feminist Therapy.
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One of the great insights of second wave feminisms was the recognition that “the personal is political” – a phrase first coined by Carol Hanisch in 1971. We meant by this that all our small, personal, day-to-day activities had political meaning, whether intended or not. Aspects of our lives that had previously been seen as purely “personal” — housework, sex, relationships with sons and fathers, mothers, sisters and lovers – were shaped by, and influential upon, their broader social context. “The slogan…meant, for example, that when a woman is forced to have sex with her husband it is a political act because it reflects the power dynamics in the relationship: wives are property to which husbands have full access” (Rowland: 1984, p. 5). A feminist understanding of “politics” meant challenging the male definition of the political as something external (to do with governments, laws, banner-waving, and protest marches) towards an understanding of politics as central to our very beings, affecting our thoughts, emotions, and the apparently trivial everyday choices we make about how we live. Feminism meant treating what had been perceived as merely “personal” issues as political concerns.
Celia Kitzinger (1993), Depoliticising the Personal: A Feminist Slogan in Feminist Therapy.
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A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
Susan Sontag (via aruariandance)
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The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.
Colum Mccann, Let The Great World Spin (via irishsaints)
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard
I would say the same of any of the fine arts for that matter.
Women routinely have to spend more money, and more time, to make ourselves visually presentable and fit society’s basic expectations of grooming… And of course, women get caught in a very nasty double bind with all this. If we aren’t successful at fitting society’s beauty standards, we’re dismissed as ugly and boring; if we do manage to meet society’s beauty standards, we get dismissed as dumb, shallow bimbos. We’re valued for our looks, encouraged and indeed pressured to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental… and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so.
Fashion Friday: Menswear, and Some Thoughts About Gender Roles | Greta Christina’s Blog (via sexisnottheenemy)
It reminds me of how a woman is expected never to acknowledge her own beauty. We sort of expect, if not desire, that they doubt their attractiveness. If not, they’re regarded as shallow or stuck-up.
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The intellectual thing I should want to say to them is this: When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed. But look only, and solely, at what are the facts. That is the intellectual thing that I should wish to say.
The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple: I should say, love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way — and if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.
Bertrand Russell (via nec-plus-ultra)
An admirable and vital endeavor, but difficult to apply. Hence, it requires constant practice and willpower.
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Until my dying day I will look back with pride that I found the courage to come face to face in battle against the specter, which for time immemorial, has been injecting poison into me and into men of my nature. Many have been driven to suicide because all their happiness in life was tainted. Indeed, I am proud that I found the courage to deal the initial blow to the hydra of public contempt.
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a 19th century German writer and jurist who is perhaps the first gay man to “come out” and speak publicly in support for LGBT rights.
I particularly enjoy how he characterized intolerance and oppression as a hydra, against which he struck but the first blow. Like his contemporaries today, Ulrichs had no delusions about this fight needing to be continued by many others for generations.
