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Perception is experienced as a coherent and fluid process only because our brain is constantly making educated guesses, filling in the gaps in information.
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― Hamlet
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― Hamlet
“Work, therefore to be able to say to every harsh appearance, “You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.” And then examine it by those rules which you have, and first, and chiefly, by this: whether it concerns the things which are in our own control, or those which are not; and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.”
― The Enchiridion
― The Enchiridion
“28. If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?”
― The Enchiridion
― The Enchiridion
“Theorists see in existent forms something given, whereas in reality something so resistant as a given…which one can grasp complete in itself, never has been or will be given [in music]. Rather, musical form is something coming-into-being [Entstehendes] (to say something come-into-being [Enstandenes] may already be incorrect), at every time newly coming into being, and never except in the finished artwork itself something at hand, that can be transmitted and further utilized.42”
― In the Process of Becoming: Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music
― In the Process of Becoming: Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music
“Were you to live three thousand years, or even a countless multiple of that, keep in mind that no one ever loses a life other than the one they are living, and no one ever lives a life other than the one they are losing. The longest and the shortest life, then, amount to the same, for the present moment lasts the same for all and is all anyone possesses. No one can lose either the past or the future, for how can someone be deprived of what’s not theirs?” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 2.14”
― The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
― The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Dimitri’s 2024 Year in Books
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