Discipline Quotes

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Always in my heart and thoughts, to my dearest copacel Emily, my sweet bumblebee, may you always seak greatness and never ask for permission and always guided by the light of Papi’s simple way of life-called by giants upon shoulders we walkon… simply :

▪︎ ☆ ▪︎ Sapere Aude ▪︎ ☆ ▪︎

“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself…

the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery;

the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. …

And this law is the expression of eternal justice.

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”
Leonardo da Vinci

“Freedom is not attained through the satisfaction of desires, but through the suppression of desires.”
Epictetus

“The day you realise what small, incremental progress can achieve over a period of time, you would agree that SMALL is actually BIG, very BIG !!

If you increase your daily productivity by just 1%, you end up doing 37.7 times more work by the end of the year – yes 37.7 times.

1 x 1 x 1…..365 times = 1
1.01 x 1.01 x 1.01 …… 365 times = 37.7

Same way, Financial Freedom Planning is just the beginning.

But only those who continue to go through the grind, track their financial freedom journey month on month – for years together, manifest the true power of SMALL !”
Manoj Arora, “Dream On”

“More men are beaten than fail.

It is not wisdom they need or money, or brilliance, or “pull,” but just plain gristle and bone.

This rude, simple, primitive power which we call “stick-to-it-iveness” is the uncrowned king of the world of endeavour.

People are utterly wrong in their slant upon things.

They see the successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy.

But that is a world away from the facts.

It is failure that is easy.

Success is always hard.

A man can fail in ease; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.”
Henry Ford, “My Life and Work”

“Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.”
Dante Alighieri

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
Plato

“Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind.

It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one’s mind is the essence of the Buddha’s teaching.”
Dalai Lama XIV, “The Art of Happiness”

“If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.”
Lao-Tsze

“If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;
and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached
to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.”
Sun Tzu, “The Art of War, Sun Tzu”

“The overman…

Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative.

Aware of life’s terrors, he affirms life without resentment. ”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become the modern instrument of penality?

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?”
Michel Foucault

“When I was a boy of seven or eight I read a novel untitled “Abafi” — The Son of Aba — a Servian translation from the Hungarian of Josika, a writer of renown.

The lessons it teaches are much like those of “Ben Hur,” and in this respect it might be viewed as anticipatory of the work of Wallace.

The possibilities of will-power and self-control appealed tremendously to my vivid imagination, and I began to discipline myself.

Had I a sweet cake or a juicy apple which I was dying to eat I would give it to another boy and go through the tortures of Tantalus, pained but satisfied.

Had I some difficult task before me which was exhausting I would attack it again and again until it was done.

So I practiced day by day from morning till night.

At first it called for a vigorous mental effort directed against disposition and desire, but as years went by the conflict lessened and finally my will and wish became identical.”
Nikola Tesla

“It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Words, words, words.

Whereas one needs deeds!”
Dostoyevsky

“If I feel like it and if I can be bothered to, I will talk to you about the notion of “repression,” which has, I think, the twofold disadvantage, in the use that is made of it, of making obscure reference to a certain theory of sovereignty—the theory of the sovereign rights of the individual—and of bringing into
play, when it is used, a whole set of psychological references borrowed from the human sciences, or in other words from discourses and practices that relate to the disciplinary domain.

I think that the notion of “repression” is still, whatever critical use we try to make of it, a juridico-disciplinary notion; and to that extent the critical use of the notion of “repression” is tainted, spoiled, and rotten from the outset because it implies both a juridical reference to sovereignty and a disciplinary reference to normalization.”
Michel Foucault,
“Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France”
(1975-1976)

“More men are beaten than fail.

It is not wisdom they need or money, or brilliance, or “pull,” but just plain gristle and bone.

This rude, simple, primitive power which we call “stick-to-it-iveness” is the uncrowned king of the world of endeavour.

People are utterly wrong in their slant upon things.

They see the successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy.

But that is a world away from the facts.

It is failure that is easy.

Success is always hard.

A man can fail in ease; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.”
Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“Student – “It is not that I do not delight in your Way, Master, it is simply that my strength is insufficient.”

Confucius – “Someone whose strength is genuinely insufficient collapses somewhere along the Way. As for you, you deliberately draw the line.”
Confucius

“You put a hard question on the virtue of discipline.

What you say is true: I do value it—and I think that you do too—more than for its earthly fruit, proficiency.

I think that one can give only a metaphysical ground for this evaluation; but the variety of metaphysics which gave an answer to your question has been very great, the metaphysics themselves very disparate: the bhagavad gita, Ecclesiastes, the Stoa, the beginning of the Laws, Hugo of St Victor, St Thomas, John of the Cross, Spinoza.

This very great disparity suggests that the fact that discipline is good for the soul is more fundamental than any of the grounds given for its goodness.

I believe that through discipline, though not through discipline alone, we can achieve serenity, and a certain small but precious measure of freedom from the accidents of incarnation, and charity, and that detachment which preserves the world which it renounces.

I believe that through discipline we can learn to preserve what is essential to our happiness in more and more adverse circumstances, and to abandon with simplicity what would else have seemed to us indispensable; that we come a little to see the world without the gross distortion of personal desire, and in seeing it so, accept more easily our earthly privation and its earthly horror—But because I believe that the reward of discipline is greater than its immediate objective, I would not have you think that discipline without objective is possible: in its nature discipline involves the subjection of the soul to some perhaps minor end; and that end must be real, if the discipline is not to be factitious.

Therefore I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment;

and only so can we know peace.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Because I have no natural gifts, shall I on that account give up my discipline?

Far be it from me!

Epictetus will not be better than Socrates, but if only I am not worse, that suffices me.

For I shall not be a Milo, either, and yet I do not neglect my body, nor a Croesus, and yet I do not neglect my property, nor, in a word, is there any other field in which we give up the appropriate discipline merely from despair of attaining the highest.”
Epictetus, Epictetus
The Discourses as Reported
By Arrian. Vol. I. Books 1 and 2
With an English Translation By W. A. Oldfather

“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about.

No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.”
Carl Sagan, “Cosmos”

“Take students today

They are in some ways freer than they were 60 years ago in their attitudes and commitments and so on.

On the other hand they are more disciplined.

They are disciplined by debt.

Part of the reasoning for arranging education so you come out with heavy debt is so you are disciplined.

Take the last 20 years—the neo-liberal years roughly—a very striking part of what is called “globalization” is just aimed at discipline.

It wants to eliminate freedom of choice and impose discipline.

How do you do that?

Well, if you’re a couple in the U.S. now, each working 50 hours a week to put food on the table, you don’t have time to think about how to become a libertarian socialist.

When what you are worried about is “how can I get food on the table?” or “I’ve got kids to take care of, and when they are sick I’ve got to go to work and what’s going to happen to them?”

Those are very well-designed techniques of imposing discipline.”
Noam Chomsky, “Chomsky On Anarchism”

“Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”
Eric Mangini

“Revolutionary’ discipline depends on political consciousness – on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed; it takes time to diffuse this, but it also takes time to drill a man into an automaton on the barrack-square.”
George Orwell, “Homage to Catalonia”

“What is generally known as discipline in traditional schools is not activity, but immobility and silence.

It is not discipline, but something that festers inside a child, arousing his rebellious feelings.”
Maria Montessori,
“Creative Development in the Child: The Montessori Approach, Volume One”

“As you grow in true spiritual power and understanding you will actually find that many outer rules and regulations will become unnecessary; but this will be because you have really risen above them; never, never, because you have fallen below them.

This point in your development, where your understanding of Truth enables you to dispense with certain outer props and regulations, is the Spiritual Coming of Age.

When you really are no longer spiritually a minor, you will cease to need some of the outer observances that formerly seemed indispensable; but your resulting life will be purer, truer, freer, and less selfish than it was before; and that is the test.”
Emmet Fox,
“The Sermon on the Mount:
The Key to Success in Life”

“Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”
Jim Rohn

“Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built.

Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.”
Jim Rohn

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires.

Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
Frank Herbert

“Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.”
Marie Chapian

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind.

If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Gautama Buddha

“Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.”
George Eliot

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Mediocrity Quotes

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🖖 & 🧡

Always in my heart and thoughts, to my dearest copacel Emily, my sweet bumblebee, may you always seak greatness and never ask for permission and always be guided by the light of papi’s simple way of life called by giants upon shoulders we walk upon, simply …

“Sapere Aude”

ORIGIN OF MEDIOCRITY

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English mediocrite, from Middle French mediocrite, from Latin mediocritāt-, stem of mediocritās “middle state, moderation”; equivalent to mediocre + -ity.

Mediocrity

Definitions from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

noun The state or quality of being mediocre.

noun Mediocre ability, achievement, or performance.

noun One that displays mediocre qualities.

from The Century Dictionary.

noun The character or state of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate; specifically, a moderate degree of mental ability.

noun Moderation; temperance.

noun A mediocre person; one of moderate capacity or ability; hence, a person of little note or repute; one who is little more than a nobody.

noun Synonyms Medium, Average, etc. See mean, n.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.

noun obsolete Moderation; temperance.

noun A mediocre person; — used disparagingly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noun The quality of being intermediate between two extremes; a mean.

noun obsolete A middle course of action; moderation, balance.

noun uncountable The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.

noun An individual with mediocre abilities or achievements.

noun ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding

noun a person of second-rate ability or value

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents.”
Andrew Carnegie

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Valley of Fear”

“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
Albert Camus

“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”
Robert G. Ingersoll

“Life without madness is mediocrity.”
Nelou Keramati

“People don’t want to think.

And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.

But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty.

So they’ll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking.

Anyone who makes a virtue – a highly intellectual virtue – out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt…

They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors.

They don’t know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear”
Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”

“The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity.

Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.”
Ryan Lilly

“The statistics all point towards the same conclusion: we have a global outbreak of fuckarounditis.”
Martin Berkhan
“The Leangains Method: The Art of Getting Ripped. Researched, Practiced, Perfected.”

“Nietzsche talked about “good and bad” in the context of nobility.

The nobles regarded the exceptional as good and the mediocre as bad.

When the “good and bad” of the nobility was replaced by the “good and evil” of the mob, exceptionalism was declared evil, and mediocrity was sanctified.

The holy mediocrities are now everywhere.

The kingdom of mediocrity is absolute …

absolute shit!”
David Sinclair
“The Wolf Tamers:
How They Made the Strong Weak”

“There’s nothing brave in pushing myself to the edge of my comfort zone.

Bravery is about refusing to be in any kind of comfort zone in the first place.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Whenever a book or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that whoever writes for fools always finds a large audience.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Religion: a Dialogue”

“Mediocre people promote mediocrity.

Dont hire mediocre people.

Instead, hire people who strive for greatness and they’ll spread that greatness throughout the company.”
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr,
CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Mediocrity is never a desirable destination….

At least, not when practice might transform mediocrity to competence, or even skill.’

Napoleon Bonapart”
Allison Pataki
“The Queen’s Fortune”

“When leaders tolerate mediocrity, it’s a cancer that spreads like wildfire.”
Frank Sonnenberg
“Listen to Your Conscience:
That’s Why You Have One”

“The death of quality foreshadows the death of humanity.

What is the point of humanity if it does not produce the highest quality and excellence?

A humanity that is not ascending is descending.

As it is, the crushing weight of averageness and mediocrity presses down on everything and makes all high things flat, drab and dull.

All the tall poppies have to die.

The only tall poppies the mediocre like are those associated with wealth, beauty and fame.

They despise the intelligent, the artistic and the technical.”
Joe Dixon
“The Irresistible Rise of Mediocre Man:
The War On Excellence”

“We can choose to believe in ourselves, and thus to strive, to risk, to persevere, and to achieve.

Or we can choose to cling to security and mediocrity.

We can choose to set no limits on ourselves, to set high goals and dream big dreams.

We can use those dreams to fuel our spirits with passion.”
Bob Rotella
“How Champions Think:
In Sports and in Life”

“The greatest enemy of enlightenment is “common sense”.

In day-today life, common sense “works”, which is why ordinary people revere it.

Most managers in the workplace are good at common sense i.e. knowing how to play the system, to obey the rules, to pander to higher managers, to avoid radical ideas, to highlight their modest successes and blame others for their failures, and to stick firmly within the domain of the conventional, acceptable and uncontroversial.

Unfortunately, they’re hopeless at everything else.

All geniuses, on the other hand, can “see” far beyond the realm of common sense.

They use imagination, intuition and visionary ideas as their guides, not the trivialities of common sense.

What would you rather be – a middle manager with a comfortable common sense life, or a genius who has unlocked the door to the mysteries of existence?

Tragically for humanity, most people aspire to be middle managers.

That’s the extent of their ambition, that’s as far as their horizons stretch.

These are the sort of people that Nietzsche scornfully branded as “Last Men.”
Adam Weishaupt
“The Illuminati’s Six Dimensional Universe”

“Nothing is good but mediocrity.

The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.”
Blaise Pascal “Pensées”

“I no longer follow the voices of the sane.

I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not.

This is the paradox of philosophers—trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they can’t graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion—- from words to action;

from comfort to uncomfortable;

from self serving to self giving;

from competition to supporting;

to tradition to unity;

from bias to acceptance;

from me to us.”
Shannon L. Alder

“Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration.

For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.”
Amelia E. Barr

“Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.”
Shannon L. Alder

“You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person’s life, other than your own.”
Shannon L. Alder

“Caution is the path to mediocrity.

Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.”
Frank Herbert
“God Emperor of Dune”

“I’m going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid.

I don’t find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you.

How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity?

How else do we define cowardice?”
Frank Herbert
“Children of Dune”

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The First Step

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao Tzu

The First step …🤔🙄🤔 Brings me back on the memory lane… In the ancient times of 2011, when I read for the first time about this BitCorn thing…

Then, I read the WhitePaper… As much or little as I understood at the time, I had a strange Sehnsucht about it and went down the proverbial rabbit hole…

Only to discover with amazement and dismay… It’s the Moria’s Mines down here…

That’s why it’s called a DYOR universe !!!

You need to Do Your Own Research folks !

It’s the only way for an Sovereign citizen !!!

Yours trully Free Spirit

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Quotes about Time

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Enjoy the Wisdoms of these quotes !!!

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Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future.

It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience.

Time is often referred to as a fourth dimension, along with three spatial dimensions.

Time is one of the seven fundamental physical quantities in both the International System of Units (SI) and International System of Quantities. The SI base unit of time is the second, which is defined by measuring the electronic transition frequency of caesium atoms.

General relativity is the primary framework for understanding how spacetime works. Through advances in both theoretical and experimental investigations of spacetime, it has been shown that time can be distorted and dilated, particularly at the edges of black holes.

Throughout history, time has been an important subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science.

Temporal measurement has occupied scientists and technologists and was a prime motivation in navigation and astronomy.

Time is also of significant social importance, having economic value (“time is money”) as well as personal value, due to an awareness of the limited time in each day and in human life spans

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Marthe Troly-Curtin, “Phrynette Married”

“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges.

Life is too short to be unhappy.”
Roy T. Bennett

“How did it get so late so soon?”
Dr. Seuss

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want.

You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing.

We can make the best or the worst of it.

I hope you make the best of it.

And I hope you see things that startle you.

I hope you feel things you never felt before.

I hope you meet people with a different point of view.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of.

If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
Eric Roth,
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay”

“I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door”
J.R.R. Tolkien

“Time is an illusion.”
Albert Einstein

“You may delay, but time will not.”
Benjamin Franklin

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
Heraclitus, “Fragments”

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
Edgar Allan Poe

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.

What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time:

the Now.

That is precious indeed.

The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
Eckhart Tolle,
“The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden.

A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject…

And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages.

There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them…

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
Seneca, “Natural Questions”

“Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”
Walt Disney

The Universe is very, very big.

It also loves a paradox.

For example, it has some extremely strict rules.

Rule number one:

Nothing lasts forever.

Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun.

It is an absolute rule.

Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.

Rule number two:

Everything lasts forever.”
Craig Ferguson,
“Between the Bridge and the River”

“Punctuality is the thief of time.”
Oscar Wilde

“the tired sunsets and the tired
people –
it takes a lifetime to die and
no time at
all.”
Charles Bukowski

“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”
Dante Alighieri

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
Benjamin Disraeli

“Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’.

Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”
Napoleon Hill

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. …

Time itself must come to a stop.

You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang.

We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in.

For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed.

Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. …

So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense.

Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in.

It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth.

The Earth is a sphere.

It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.”
Stephen W. Hawking

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”
Eckhart Tolle

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.”
William Faulkner,
“The Sound and the Fury”

“Nothing endures but change.”
Heraclitus

If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth’s history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours.

Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes.

Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia.

At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale.

Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow.

Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident.

Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour.

At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins.

Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight.

The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant.

Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless.

Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw.

And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger.

It’s a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment.

In fact, not many things do for long.”
Bill Bryson,
“A Short History of Nearly Everything”

“Time is Galleons, little brother.”
J.K. Rowling,
“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”

“The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit.

Nothing that means anything happens quickly–we only think it does.

The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making.

So it is with a life, anyone’s life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming.

And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones.”
Joseph Bruchac

I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair …

Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering!

And all the time one hears the human crowd swirling and thundering around one in the whirlwind of life, one hears, one sees how people live—that they live in reality, that for them life is not something forbidden, that their lives are not scattered for the winds like dreams or visions but are forever in the process of renewal, forever young, and that no two moments in them are ever the same; while how dreary and monotonous to the point of being vulgar is timorous fantasy, the slave of shadow, of the idea…”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
“White Nights”

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.

We have no present.

Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation.

We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.

We are therefore out of touch with reality.

We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is.

We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.”
Alan Wilson Watts

“Enjoy life.

There’s plenty of time to be dead.”
Hans Christian Andersen

“I lied and said I was busy.
I was busy;
but not in a way most people understand.

I was busy taking deeper breaths.
I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
I was busy calming a racing heart.
I was busy telling myself I am okay.

Sometimes, this is my busy –
and I will not apologize for it.”
Brittin Oakman

“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind.

No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over.

No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives!

We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”
Seneca,
“On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It”

“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency.

No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.”
Christopher Rice

…unfortunately, it’s true: time does heal.

It will do so whether you like it or not, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

If you’re not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge.

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience.

Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language.

The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state.

It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.”
Charles Yu,
“How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe”

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
Horace

“Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes.

And it makes me wonder if we’ve utilized our time properly or not.

Proper utilization of time is so important.

While we have this body, and especially this amazing human brain, I think every minute is something precious.

Our day-to-day existence is very much alive with hope, although there is no guarantee of our future.

There is no guarantee that tomorrow at this time we will be here.

But we are working for that purely on the basis of hope.

So, we need to make the best use of our time.

I believe that the proper utilization of time is this: if you can, serve other people, other sentient beings.

If not, at least refrain from harming them. I think that is the whole basis of my philosophy.

So, let us reflect what is truly of value in life, what gives meaning to our lives, and set our priorities on the basis of that.

The purpose of our life needs to be positive.

We weren’t born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others.

For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities—warmth, kindness, compassion.

Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful—happier.”
Dalai Lama XIV,
“The Art of Happiness”

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Wisest quotes of all time

Sometimes the word quote is used as shorthand for quotation, a passage of speech or writing that’s repeated word for word.

As a verb, to quote means to repeat someone’s words, attributing them to their originator.

When one writes out a quote, one puts the other person’s words in quotation marks (“Aha!”).

To my Dearest Emily

A drop of Wisdom in an ocean of Ignorance, Stupidity and Madness, that this world has become lately… Sad…

May these quotes from bright minds all over the planet guide you on Your path !

From Papi with Love

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules…

You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius…”
Steve Jobs

“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life.

There are no limits.

There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
Bruce Lee

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow”.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

”Buddha was asked, “What have you gained from meditation?”

He replied, “Nothing!”

However, Buddha said, let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, Fear of Old, Age and Death.”
Buddha

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.”
Alexandra K. Trenfor

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Plato

“Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
Lao Tzu

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead

“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell

Man: ‘I want happiness’

Buddha: First remove ”I”, this is Ego.

Then remove “Want”, this is desire.

Finally all that remains is “Happiness.”
Buddha

“Logic will get you from A to B.

Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Jung

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
Bruce Lee

“Never let school interfere with your education.”
Mark Twain

“The real question is not whether life exists after death.

The real question is whether you are alive before your death.”
Osho

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
Lao Tzu

“He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
Lao Tzu

“You have enemies?

Good; that means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”
Albert Einstein

“Loneliness is and will always be the most abundant source of human experience.”
Swami Vivekanand

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”
J.K. Rowling

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”
Dalai Lama

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.”
Christopher McCandless

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.

I wrote down “Happy.”

They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
John Lennon

“Everybody is a genius.

But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
Albert Einstein

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Gandhi

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
Henry van Dyke

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”
Wayne Gretzky

“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Socrates

“Life isn’t about finding yourself.

Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
Walt Disney Company, “Mulan”

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”
Gautama Buddha

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
Eckhart Tolle

“The truth is, everyone’s going to hurt you.

You’ve just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
Bob Marley

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
J.K. Rowling

“A man who conquers himself is greater than one who conquers a thousand men in battle”
Buddha

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”
Ancient Chinese Proverb

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.”
Carl Jung

“Never be bullied into silence, never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one’s definition of your life,
define yourself.”
Robert Frost

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”
Confucius

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
JK Rowling

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”
Eckhart Tolle

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T. S. Eliot

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
J. R. R. Tolkien

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.”
Robert Frost

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”
John F. Kennedy

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”— Albert Einstein

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” ~ Steve Jobs

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.

It’s the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln

“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t.

We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
Charles Bukowski

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Buddha

“Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.”
Mark Twain

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?

Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.

Beautiful people do not just happen.”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“All life is an experiment.

The more experiments you make, the better.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Know thyself.”
Socrates

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Socrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates

“Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.”
Dalai Lama

“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.”
Aristotle

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
George Santayana

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Aristotle

Research Quotes

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
Albert Einstein

“The element of chance in basic research is overrated.

Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.”
Hans Selye

“Oersted would never have made his great discovery of the action of galvanic currents on magnets had he stopped in his researches to consider in what manner they could possibly be turned to practical account; and so we would not now be able to boast of the wonders done by the electric telegraphs.

Indeed, no great law in Natural Philosophy has ever been discovered for its practical implications, but the instances are innumerable of investigations apparently quite useless in this narrow sense of the word which have led to the most valuable results.”
Lord Kelvin

“The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.”
Celia Green

“The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart.

It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun.

It is, rather, a command center, a power base.

A board room, a war room.

An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies.

One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.”
Eric Burns, “The Joy of Books”

“I think that the thing I most want you to remember is that research is a ceremony.

And so is life.

Everything that we do shares in the ongoing creation of our universe.”
Shawn Wilson

“Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic.

Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.”
Criss Jami, “Healology”

“What we find changes who we become.”
Peter Morville

The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden.

A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject…

And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages.

There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them…

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
Seneca, “Natural Questions”

Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic assumed its rank among the Nations;

The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government; the free cultivation of Letters, the unbounded extension of Commerce, the progressive refinement of Manners, the growing liberality of sentiment… have had a meliorating influence on mankind and increased the blessings of Society.

At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation, and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.
[Circular to the States, 8 June 1783 –
Writings 26:484–89]
George Washington, “Writings”

“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.”
Steven Weinberg

“Do research.

Feed your talent.

Research not only wins the war on cliche, it’s the key to victory over fear and it’s cousin, depression.”
Robert McKee

“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
Thomas Huxley

“Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn.

We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?”
Carl Sagan, “The Demon-Haunted World:
Science as a Candle in the Dark”

“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
Thomas Huxley

“The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.”
Paul Dirac

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”
Nicholas Butler

“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is?

As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time.

Nightclubs are great literary research centers.

So is Ibiza!”
Roman Payne, “Cities & Countries”

Introspection is a form of self-management.

You reflect.

You decide.

You change.

You allow yourself to grow.”
Raoul Davis Jr.,
“Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life”

“Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?”
Michael Faraday

“People who “go by the book“, need to research who wrote it.:
Carlos Wallace

“A good researcher is the one who reduces the distance between Imagination and Reality.”
P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Part of research is testing the final product.”
Steven Magee

“Research is about making many connections that lead to discovery.”
Steven Magee

“RESEARCH IS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN PROVE, RESEARCH IS ALL ABOUT WHAT OTHERS FAILED TO PROVE, THE LAW OF RESEARCH.”
P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Research always has a price.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

“Every seeker of truth is a progressive person.”
Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

“In academia, the model that we are taught; that we are told in most fields – not the arts, and not the experimental sciences either – but many, many fields, [the model] is:

– You have an idea,

– You accumulate everything that anyone has ever written about that idea,

– You become familiar with what everyone has already said about it,

– And from there, you cobble together the pieces: the evidence either for or against your [idea], or you just review what they’ve done and you create something that’s a little bit new.

Over in science space I call this “Brick in the Wall Science”.

It’s valuable that some people are doing Brick in the Wall Science but you will always have the same foundation of the house that you started with with Brick in the Wall Science, and it’s possible the foundation of the house you started with is not the foundation that you want or that is true. […]

[With Brick in the Wall Science] you can’t have revolutionary ideas.

You can’t have paradigm shifts.”

“Research is formalized curiosity.

It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
Zora Neale Hurston

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.
Ernest L. Boyer

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
Carl Sagan

The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.
Seneca, “Natural Questions”

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CypherPunk Movement

THE CYPHERPUNK MOVEMENT

Let’s make a journey back in time to see where blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies came from. It will take us back to the CypherPunk Movement starting in the 1970’s.

Cryptography for the People

Encryption was primarily used for military purposes before the 1970s. People at that time were living in an analog world. Few had computers and even fewer could imagine a technology that would connect almost every human being on the planet – the internet.

Two publications brought cryptography into the open, namely the “Data Encryption Standard” published by the US Government, and a paper called “New Directions in Cryptography” by Dr. Whitfield Diffie and Dr. Martin Hellman, published in 1976.

Dr. David Chaum started writing on topics such as anonymous digital cash and pseudonymous reputation systems in the 1980s, such as the ones described in “Security without Identification: Transaction Systems to make Big Brother Obsolete”. This was the first step toward the digital currencies we see today.

The Cypherpunks

*We walk on shoulders of Giants!*
*Hughes, May, Back, Finney, Gilmore, Szabo*

It wasn’t until 1992 that a group of cryptographers in the San Francisco Bay area started meeting up on a regular basis to discuss their work and related ideas. They built a basis for years of cryptographic research to come.

Besides their regular meetings, they also started the Cypherpunk mailing list in which they discussed many ideas including those which led to the birth of Bitcoin.

In late 1992 Eric Hughes, one of the first cypherpunks, wrote “A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto” laying out the ideals and vision of the movement.

Note: We encourage you to read A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto. The Manifesto is just as relevant today as it was in 1992. This short read takes only a few minutes of your time. It’s astonishing to see how much foresight the early members had when most people didn’t even think about computers yet.

A Cypherpunks’s Manifesto

An excerpt from the Manifesto:

“Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.

Privacy is not secrecy.

A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know.

Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.”

“Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography.

If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it.

If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy.

To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy.”

“We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any.

We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place.

People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers.

The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.”

“We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems.

We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.”

Electronic Cash

Although you might have just heard about this movement for the first time, you have most definitely benefitted from the efforts of some of their members in building Tor, BitTorrent, SSL, and PGP encryption. It should not surprise you that many concepts and ideas that originated from this group led to the emergence of cryptocurrencies.

In 1997, Dr. Adam Back created HashCash, which he proposed as a measure against spam. A little later, in 1998, Wei Dai published his idea for b-money and conceived the ideas of Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake to achieve consensus across a distributed network. In 2005 Nick Szabo published a proposal for Bit Gold. There was no cap on the maximum supply but he introduced the idea to value each unit of Bit Gold by the amount of computational work that went into producing it. Although this is not how cryptocurrencies are valued, the price of production (comprised of hardware and electricity cost) plays a role in the pricing of these digital assets.

In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin white paper, citing and building upon HashCash and b-money. Citations from his early communications and parts of his white paper, such as the following on privacy, suggest Nakamoto was close to the cypherpunk movement.

“The traditional banking model achieves a level of privacy by limiting access to information to the parties involved and the trusted third party. The necessity to announce all transactions publicly precludes this method, but privacy can still be maintained by breaking the flow of information in another place: by keeping public keys anonymous. The public can see that someone is sending an amount to someone else, but without information linking the transaction to anyone. This is similar to the level of information released by stock exchanges, where the time and size of individual trades, the ‘tape’, is made public, but without telling who the parties were.”

Technology did not enable strong privacy prior to the 20th century, but neither did it enable affordable mass surveillance. We believe in the human right to privacy and work towards enabling anyone who wishes to claim his or her privacy to do so. We see a cryptocurrency with selective privacy as a good step in the right direction of reclaiming our privacy.

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Free Spirit’s Library

Hy there my fellow citizens of this amazingly beautiful Mother Earth of… Not Ours !!! We tend to forget that and treat it as if we would have another habitable sphere on wich to live, in the back of our pocket…. but that’s a topic for another discussion…

A few day ago… I think it was days… maybe weeks… Time is an illusion Einstein was right! Anyway somewhere in the past I decided to make a little bit more wider my mark on this digital world we all drown into :))) and I started to build up a Library !

As I do believe and live by the motto…

“Sharing is caring!”

Here with delight and joy I present to You, Free Spirit’s Library named how else than…

*Note: It's a Never Ending work in progress, as I am one little • that is bound to the same illusion of Time, as every other • is 😉 :))

So I would suggest you make frequent visits on the Discord server, as I add books and much interesting food for the mind all the time !

Thank you for your time !!!

May knowledge enlighten your path and make you evolve and thrive, if not for us then for the generations to come, so they can walk and look behind them, and say... 

"Hey look, we are walking on shoulders of giants..."

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Running bitcoin – Hal Finney

Join Honorary Chair Fran Finney and the Running Bitcoin Challenge Committee as we honor legendary cypher punk, Hal Finney.

This is THE EVENT that combines Hal Finney’s love of running and Bitcoin and is raising funds and awareness to help defeat ALS, which ultimately claimed his life in 2014.

You are challenged to run (or walk, roll, or hike) the equivalent of a half marathon — cumulatively or all at once — by the end of January 10, 2023.

From wherever you are, spread the word about Bitcoin, participate in a healthy activity, feel good about doing your part to defeat ALS, and start the year off right

Hal Finney, one of the earliest bitcoin contributors, died eight years ago from complications of nervous system disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

His spouse, Fran Finney, is now organizing a half marathon to raise funds for ALS research via bitcoin.

The “Running Bitcoin Challenge” is set to take place between Jan. 1 and Jan. 10. The timing of the occasion leads up to the anniversary of Hal Finney’s “Running bitcoin” tweet, in which Finney famously disclosed he was deploying a Bitcoin node.

There is no set location — participants can choose to join anywhere they wish. Players are encouraged to either run, walk, roll or hike the equivalent of a half marathon (Hal’s favorite distance) either in one go or over the entire 10-day period.

Donors contributing at least $100 will receive an official shirt with the half marathon’s logo, while the event’s top 25 fundraisers will get a Hal Finney collectible signed by his wife.

As of Wednesday morning, the event has already managed to secure nearly $10,000 in bitcoin donations.

An advocate of cryptography and digital privacy, Finney was the recipient of the first-ever bitcoin transfer from the network’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto.

The bitcoin community often suspected Finney was Nakamoto, a claim he consistently denied. He reportedly found out about his condition in 2009 and decided to move away from the project.

Hal’s name is high in the Bitcoin pantheon as one of the first people to voice support for Satoshi Nakamoto’s invention and for being the first person to receive a Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi.

He was, for a time, considered one of the top contenders on the list of potential Satoshis himself (many in blockchain who reject Dr. Craig Wright’s statements still falsely believe Finney to be Bitcoin’s real creator).

Hal, who referred to himself as a “cypherpunk,” was a cryptographic activist who went from developing video games to working on the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) project in the 1990s. He described his PGP work as “dedicated to the goal of making Big Brother obsolete.”

PGP creator Phil Zimmerman hired Hal as his first employee when PGP became PGP Corporation in the early 2000s. He described Hal as a “gregarious man” who loved skiing and long-distance running.

Despite gradual paralysis that eventually forced him to stop working, Hal continued to code software and follow the Bitcoin project.

Almost as famous as his 2009 tweet is his “Bitcoin and me” post on BitcoinTalk.org in March 2013, the last he’d ever make.

It’s a long post, and Hal was “essentially paralyzed” at the time, using an eye tracker to type. Forum stats show the post has been read over 278,000 times.

“When Satoshi announced the first release of the software, I grabbed it right away,” he wrote. “I think I was the first person besides Satoshi to run bitcoin. I mined block 70-something, and I was the recipient of the first bitcoin transaction when Satoshi sent ten coins to me as a test.

I carried on an email conversation with Satoshi over the next few days, mostly me reporting bugs and him fixing them.”

Hal himself always denied being Satoshi Nakamoto, adding later that he’d sold most of the Bitcoins he mined (at pre-2014 prices) to pay for his treatments. He also mentioned putting some in a safe deposit box for his children.

“And, of course, the price gyrations of bitcoins are entertaining to me.

I have skin in the game.

But I came by my bitcoins through luck, with little credit to me.

I lived through the crash of 2011.

So I’ve seen it before.

Easy come, easy go.”
Hal Finney

www.runningbitcoin.us

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Happy Genesis Block Day

January 3rd 2023 – Bitcoin 14th Anniversary

Happy Genesis Block Day! January 3 is the 14th anniversary of Bitcoin’s Block Zero, its anchor in time.

The first sentence of the email has become iconic among the Bitcoin community:

“I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.”

On January 3, 2009, the genesis block of the Bitcoin blockchain was mined by its pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto, marking the first time in history that a completely digital and decentralized currency went online.

In the 14 years and three halvings since, Bitcoin has grown to become one of the most important financial instruments, clearly demonstrating that a non-central bank-controlled currency is capable of challenging the established monetary order.

That time, in 2009, was one of economic turmoil—and the aftershocks from that turmoil are still rocking our world in 2023.

The Genesis Block was never “mined” like every other Bitcoin block. That started with Block #1 when Satoshi Nakamoto released the software on SourceForge.

The hash from Block #0 was done with different software and hard-coded into the original Bitcoin protocol.

“Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks” was the Times headline. Satoshi hid in the first block’s coinbase hash as a timestamp to prove there had been no mining on the Bitcoin network before he released the software to the public.

“The Chancellor will decide within weeks whether to pump billions more into the economy,” the original article in the Times said. In 2009 these seemed like desperate measures, and they were. Since 2009, though, governments across the Western world have indeed pumped billions, even trillions more, into their economies.

Satoshi was making a statement on irresponsible government interventions in the economy and their eventual erosion on markets.

“They actively sought to incentivise bad behaviour and push in typical Keynesian style the problem down the road. It would be a bigger problem, but it would be someone else’s problem.”

Just like the economy at large, Bitcoin is a long-term struggle against the worse aspects of human nature.

10 most important Bitcoin Milestones

Bitcoin has reached numerous major milestones and faced several considerable obstacles over its nearly decade-and-a-half-long history.

Here are 10 events that had the biggest impact on Bitcoin so far:

November 28, 2012: First Bitcoin halving
February 28, 2014: Mt. Gox, the biggest Bitcoin exchange at the time, files for bankruptcy
July 9, 2016: Second Bitcoin halving
August 1, 2017: Bitcoin Cash hard fork
May 11, 2020: Third Bitcoin halving
February 8, 2021: Tesla invests in Bitcoin
February 20, 2021: Bitcoin reaches $1 trillion market cap for the first time
September 7, 2021: El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender
November 14, 2021 – Taproot upgrade is activated
November 11, 2022: Major crypto exchange FTX files for bankruptcy

Bitcoin has never closed in the red zone 2 years in a row: Will the trend continue?

Bitcoin price decreased by over -60% over the span of the last 12 months. However, there is a strong bullish precedent in play that could spell a major trend reversal in the coming months.

For starters, Bitcoin has never closed in the negative two years in a row. Granted, there is a relatively short set of historical price data to work with.

However, roughly speaking, Bitcoin has operated on 3 years of growth followed by 1 year of market retracement periods, at least so far

For world-renowned charities such as Save the Children, the White aper and the subsequent creation of Bitcoin have benefited the organization.

Antonia Roupell, Web3 lead at Save the Children, told Cointelegraph that the organization recognizes “Bitcoin’s potential to be a force for good and a force for financial inclusion,” adding:

“On Bitcoin’s 14th anniversary, and at a time of increasingly global financial inequality, the phrase ‘bitcoin is for anyone’ really resonates.”

Sources:

https://cointelegraph.com/
https://medium.com/
https://coincodex.com/
https://coingeek.com/

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Truth Quotes

In Roman mythology, Veritas, meaning Truth, is the goddess of Truth, a daughter of Chronos, the God of Time.

For my dearest copăcel Emily,

Wish that you’ll find a drop of wisdom in an ocean of words!

Because never forget Papi, the ocean was formed drop by drop 🙂🥰🙃

“Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage.

Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another.

Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another.

Sapere aude!

‘Have courage to use your own reason!’- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
Immanuel Kant, “An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?”

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson

“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it.

I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against.

I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
Malcolm X

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
George Carlin

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest”

“I believe in everything until it’s disproved.

So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind.

Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”
John Lennon

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Aldous Huxley

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Oscar Wilde

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.

If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.”
William Faulkner

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.

You trade in your reality for a role.

You trade in your sense for an act.

You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level.

It’s got to happen inside first.”
Jim MORRISON

“There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
Benjamin Disraeli

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.

Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Marcus Aurelius , “Meditations”

“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States.

Ask any Indian.”
Robert Orben

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something.

Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Leo Tolstoy, “A Confession”

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
Carl Sagan

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
George Washington

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
Carl Sagan

“There are two ways to be fooled.

One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
Soren Kierkegaard

“1492.

As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America.

Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that.

1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.”
Kurt Vonnegut

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
George Orwell, “1984”

“If the road is easy, you’re likely going the wrong way.”
Terry Goodkind

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed.

It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”

“Believe those who are seeking the truth.

Doubt those who find it.”
Andre Gide

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
C.S. Lewis

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
Henry David Thoreau

“The truth is always an abyss.

One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”
Franz Kafka

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something.

Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“Belief can be manipulated.

Only knowledge is dangerous.”
Frank Herbert

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
Carl Sagan

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
C.S. Lewis

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Leo Tolstoy, “A Confession”

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
George Orwell

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
Albert Camus

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
Voltaire

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
Niels Bohr

“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”
Jason Mraz

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
René Descartes

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
Robert M. Pirsig, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values” (Phaedrus, #1)

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
Steve Jobs

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
Niels Bohr

“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti, “The First and Last Freedom”

“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
Jean Paul Sarte

“I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.”
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

It is the source of all true art and all science.

He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
Albert Einstein

“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”
Osho

“Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.”
Sigmund Freud, “The Future of an Illusion”

“You should not honor men more than truth.”
Plato

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,… [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.”
Noam Chomsky, “Propaganda and the Public Mind”

“The truth may be puzzling.

It may take some work to grapple with.

It may be counterintuitive.

It may contradict deeply held prejudices.

It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true.

But our preferences do not determine what’s true.”
Carl Sagan

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
Arthur Conan Doyle

“We all know that Art is not truth.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand.

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
Pablo Picasso

“Honest is how I want to look.

The truth doesn’t glitter and shine.”
Chuck Palahniuk, “Survivor”

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
Benjamin Disraeli

“Above all, do not lie to yourself.

A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others.

Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete beastiality, and it all comes form lying continually to others and himself.

A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. it sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn’t it?

And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked up on a word and made a mountain out of a pea–he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility…”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov”

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
Nietzsche

“It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”
Victor Hugo

“I always tell the truth.

Even when I lie.”
Al Pacino

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.”
John Lennon

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
Blaise Pascal

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
Isaac Newton

“When everything gets answered, it’s fake.”
Sean Penn

“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
John Locke

“Beware:
Ignorance
Protects itself.
Ignorance
Promotes suspicion.
Suspicion
Engenders fear.
Fear quails,
Irrational and blind,
Or fear looms,
Defiant and closed.
Blind, closed,
Suspicious, afraid,
Ignorance
Protects itself,
And protected,
Ignorance grows.”
Octavia E. Butler, “Parable of the Talents”

“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him.

Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time.

We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”
Albert Einstein

“Knowledge is a destination.

Truth, the journey.”
Terry Goodkind

“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.”
Edmund Burke

“Love speaks in flowers.

Truth requires thorns.”
Leigh Bardugo, “The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic”

“We are what we believe we are!”
C.S. Lewis

“If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change.

I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.”
Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”

“People who fit don’t seek.

The seekers are those that don’t fit.”
Shannon L. Alder

“It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.”
Blaise Pascal

“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.”
E.A. Bucchianeri, “Brushstrokes of a Gadfly”

“Every beginning has an end and every end is a new beginning.”
Santosh Kalwar

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
Jules Verne, “Journey to the Center of the Earth”

“At times to be silent is to lie.

You will win because you have enough brute force.

But you will not convince.

For to convince you need to persuade.

And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right.”
Miguel de Unamuno

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₿uild a New Model…

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Buckminster Fuller

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Leave a trail…

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay “Nature”.

Following this work, he gave a speech entitled “The American Scholar” in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America’s “Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”

Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays “Self-Reliance”, “The Over-Soul”, “Circles”, “The Poet”, and “Experience.” Together with “Nature”, these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson’s most fertile period.

Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world.

Emerson’s “nature” was more philosophical than naturalistic: “Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.”

Emerson is one of several figures who “took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world.”

He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him.

“In all my lectures,” he wrote, “I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.” Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow transcendentalist.

As a lecturer and orator, Emerson—nicknamed the Sage of Concord — became the leading voice of intellectual culture in the United States.

James Russell Lowell, editor of the Atlantic Monthly and the North American Review, commented in his book My Study Windows (1871), that Emerson was not only the “most steadily attractive lecturer in America,” but also “one of the pioneers of the lecturing system.”

Herman Melville, who had met Emerson in 1849, originally thought he had “a defect in the region of the heart” and a “self-conceit so intensely intellectual that at first one hesitates to call it by its right name”, though he later admitted Emerson was “a great man”.

Theodore Parker, a minister and transcendentalist, noted Emerson’s ability to influence and inspire others: “the brilliant genius of Emerson rose in the winter nights, and hung over Boston, drawing the eyes of ingenuous young people to look up to that great new star, a beauty and a mystery, which charmed for the moment, while it gave also perennial inspiration, as it led them forward along new paths, and towards new hopes”.

Emerson’s work not only influenced his contemporaries, such as Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, but would continue to influence thinkers and writers in the United States and around the world down to the present.

Notable thinkers who recognize Emerson’s influence include Nietzsche and William James, Emerson’s godson. There is little disagreement that Emerson was the most influential writer of 19th-century America, though these days he is largely the concern of scholars.

Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and William James were all positive Emersonians, while Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James were Emersonians in denial—while they set themselves in opposition to the sage, there was no escaping his influence.

To T. S. Eliot, Emerson’s essays were an “encumbrance”. Waldo the Sage was eclipsed from 1914 until 1965, when he returned to shine, after surviving in the work of major American poets like Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane.

In his book The American Religion, Harold Bloom repeatedly refers to Emerson as “The prophet of the American Religion”, which in the context of the book refers to indigenously American religions such as Mormonism and Christian Science, which arose largely in Emerson’s lifetime, but also to mainline Protestant churches that Bloom says have become in the United States more gnostic than their European counterparts.

In The Western Canon, Bloom compares Emerson to Michel de Montaigne: “The only equivalent reading experience that I know is to reread endlessly in the notebooks and journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American version of Montaigne.”

Several of Emerson’s poems were included in Bloom’s The Best Poems of the English Language, although he wrote that none of the poems are as outstanding as the best of Emerson’s essays, which Bloom listed as “Self-Reliance”, “Circles”, “Experience”, and “nearly all of Conduct of Life”.

In his belief that line lengths, rhythms, and phrases are determined by breath, Emerson’s poetry foreshadowed the theories of Charles Olson.

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Cryptography for the People

The Cypherpunks

A Cypherpunks’s Manifesto

Electronic Cash

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January 3rd 2023 – Bitcoin 14th Anniversary

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A drop of Wisdom in an ocean of Ignorance, Stupidity and Madness, that this world has become lately… Sad…

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For my dearest copăcel Emily,

Wish that you’ll find a drop of wisdom in an ocean of words!

Because never forget Papi, the ocean was formed drop by drop 🙂🥰🙃

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Buckminster Fuller