The World Motivation
We are like fruitflies, measuring everything in terms of our own lifespan. But since our lifespans are so short, our perspective is entirely wrong.
“We are like fruitflies, measuring everything in terms of our own lifespan. But since our lifespans are so short, our perspective is entirely wrong.”
— Douglas Wilson · Time
We are like fruitflies, measuring everything in terms of our own lifespan. But since our lifespans are so short, our perspective is entirely wrong.
It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.
I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.
I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
In a singularity, there is no space and time; time is a consequence of space. Space and time are only possible in plurality. The irruption of singularity into plurality is the cause of space and time as we perceive it.
Have you heard the story of the man who wasted his life taking drugs and playing Sudoku, and when he realized that he could do something meaningful, he worked hard and even got his time back?