Magna Vista

@Ulsterpoet Delightful

To a Daisy… #poetry #nature #wildflowers #summertime

@Cozyreads_ Zero self-awareness.

@AuthorGFAllen Yes, but I find it more efficient to listen to the audiobook on 2x speed as I read the book as I'm a naturally very slow/ careful reader.

Anyone else still pick physical books over ebooks or audiobooks?

@DawsonSWilliams I can think of no better way to start the day. At least you'll be able to anticipate the pendulum swings between boredom and unfulfilled desire throughout the rest of the day.

The morning air with Schopenhauer

@Bukowskiquot Go All The Way / Alone With Everybody. I can't decide which I prefer more.

best poem?

@paul_jkrause Hamlet is certainly less action-packed and less intense than Macbeth but I still think Hamlet is Shakespeare's most profound meditation on human nature and the human condition.

I personally like Macbeth more than Hamlet. Anyone else?

@DawsonSWilliams The fact that we often struggle to put what we think into words with a coherent logical form shows that thinking begins on a pre-rational level before it is given logical definition within language. It's actually quite strange and mysterious.

It’s a fool’s errand to expect that traditional logic will teach us how to think.—Heidegger

@keycrosser For when one is afflicted with an ague or a touch of the vapours.

Big Pharma took this...

@BretVDB That's what great art should do - reveal the universal in the particular.

“It seems to be a law of literature that the more strictly limited its environment is, the more universal its appeal. Faulkner writes of his unpronounceable county in Mississippi and gets the Nobel Prize in Sweden, while novelists writing of the dilemma of modern man would get nowhere.” —Northrop Frye, “Criticism and Environment”

@dzambrano90 What's his/her name?

Enjoying coffee while strolling with a companion.

@jamesfahey15 Climbing mountains might be the one exception if you're 100 but for everything else it's never too late.

@Kierkegaarddd Dialectics

What’s a philosophical idea that completely rewired how you see the world?

@QuoteNietzsche The Birth of Tragedy.

Which Nietzsche book actually changed how you think?

@melizzabelle @Kierkegaarddd Terrifying book.

@Kierkegaarddd Blood Meridian

Which book left you completely wrecked? Fiction, memoir, philosophy, anything. Tell me.

@Kierkegaarddd Perfume by Patrick Suskind

@RobertMPayne1 @FunMovieTVFan Yossarrian (from Catch-22)

@FunMovieTVFan “Post a character that starts with the letter Y? / (First or Last)” Ygor

Post a character that starts with the letter Y? (First or Last)

@RobertMPayne1 @MovieEndorser Although on further consideration I think I'd choose The Dark Knight over Donnie Darko

@MovieEndorser “What’s Your Favorite Film Starting with D?” Favorite: DR. STRANGELOVE (1964). Shout-out: DAY OF WRATH (1943) and DAISIES (1966)

What’s Your Favorite Film Starting with D?

@RobertMPayne1 @MovieEndorser Donnie Darko

@Karacyr_1970 @MarceloBufacchi Do we know why her cheeks are so inflamed?

Girl At A Window by Rembrand van Rijn, oil on canvas 1645.

@jessiahwagner No man is an island. Aristotle said to be completely contented in solitude is to be either a beast or a god. But I do agree we should also be able to enjoy our own company for much of the time.