“Assigner of the ordeal and the path
Who chooses in this holocaust of the soul
Death, fall and sorrow as the spirit’s goads,
The dubious godhead with his torch of pain
Lit up the chasm of the unfinished world
And called her to fill with her vast self the abyss.
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Source: Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“Project your “brand” to be remarkable and memorable. Whether through a positioning statement, product placement, advertising campaign, service, a logo, mission, or message, your brand is what makes you and/or your company remarkable—or not.”
Source: The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact
“Anger, surprisingly, often follows social hierarchies. Many people easily express anger toward those who are less powerful—a waiter, a child, a junior employee—but suppress it when mistreated by someone more powerful, such as a boss, police officer, or a government body.”
Source: Critical Thinking Unchained: From Formal Logic to Dialectics of Emancipation
“Critical thinking begins with clarity: knowing when we’re dealing with facts, and when we’re dealing with beliefs awaiting verification.”
Source: Critical Thinking Unchained: From Formal Logic to Dialectics of Emancipation
“A critical thinker is not someone who knows all the answers, but someone who keeps asking better questions.”
Source: Critical Thinking Unchained: From Formal Logic to Dialectics of Emancipation
“Anger is a natural emotion. It arises when we perceive something unjust, unfair, or threatening. There is nothing inherently wrong in feeling angry. Emotions are part of being human. The real problem arises when we express anger impulsively—especially when it targets another person.”
Source: Critical Thinking Unchained: From Formal Logic to Dialectics of Emancipation
“Carnot, one of a school of mathematicians who emphasized the relationship of mathematics to scientific practice, appears, in spite of the title of his work, to have been more concerned about the facility of application of the rules of procedure than about the logical reasoning involved.”
Source: The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
“Criticism, rightly practiced, begins and remains a form of introspection.”
Source: Critical Thinking Unchained: From Formal Logic to Dialectics of Emancipation
“When you sacrifice logic at the altar of mysticism, your journey is bound to be brief.”
“It's funny, I've decided 'Hallelujah' is a kind of Rorschach test for people, because everyone has a different reaction to it and to what I'm doing. I just sang it, and whatever came out was just natural and spontaneous and maybe that's the best thing, because there's a kind of enigma, both in the meaning of the words and the way Leonard Cohen said them, that catches people's attention.”
Source: The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"