“I don’t know what I may seem to the world,” he said before he died, “but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth […]
Quote of the Day: Recognizing Oneself
The intimacy of friendship, Derrida writes, lies in the sensation of recognizing oneself in the eyes of another. Hua Hsu, citing The Politics of Friendship, by Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), French deconstructionist philosopher.
Quote of the Day: Understanding
If you ever hear yourself saying, ‘I think I understand this,’ that means you don’t.” Richard Feynman, 1918-1988, Nobel prize-winning physicist who assisted the development of the atomic bomb, made contributions to quantum mechanics, and served on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.