#universality

[philosophybits]

False universality is what rubs the edges off all individual kinds of culture and takes as its basis the mediocre average. With true universality, on the other hand, art, for example, would become even more artificial than it is in its pure state, poetry would become more poetical, criticism more critical, history more historical, and so on. This universality can come into being when the simple light of religion and morality touches a chaos of combinative wit and fertilizes it. Then the most sublime poetry and philosophy burst into flower by themselves.

Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas

[elegantzombielite]

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

James Baldwin, writer (2nd August 1924-1987)

[windsails]

🌈 cosmic checkpoint - v1.1 🌱

this document is socially constructed

🎶 ✨ congratulations! you made it! you made it to the center of the internet. it's an open source universal checkpoint! nothing special about it. we can rename it through a defined process

this document is socially constructed

please share your feedback with others about the peace declaration checkpoint proposal, we can discuss on social media websites, there are already several of these going on i believe

please note this point transcends time and space and there are infinite numbers of identical checkpoints each with variations

think of them as atoms of saved data

remember your chemistry!

share respect for others

always try to learn from your mistakes

never give up!

keep on keeping on ✨🌻

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"A lot of people think that what is unique about science is its empiricism: it relies on experience to confirm or throw out statements about reality. Of course, it does do that. But empiricism in that sense is hardly unique to science. All human beings make up their minds by referring to experience.

The question which matters is not “Do you rely on experience to make up your mind about objective statements?” It is “Whose experience do you rely on?” This is where the empirical rule produces its unique answer: only the experience of no one in particular."

-- Jonathan Rauch, "Kindly Inquisitors"

[philosophybitmaps]

[siamkram]

“If I have seen further than others it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”

[thinkingimages]

Le « jour » s’achève… C’est la nuit et ce dont je vais parler sera plutôt de l’ordre de la nuit. D’une nuit qui n’est pas le contraire du jour, peut-être un autre jour, au sens où le jour c’est aussi une ouverture sur un autre espace.

UN JOUR DERRIDA  | Valerio Adami, Jacques-Olivier Bégot, Daniel Bougnoux, et al.

indexicality; photography, symptom; punctum; a¤ect;universality

[cherrycherryja]

Helene Cixous speaking about thinking, how it makes you universal and the problems it comes when being an intellectual.

[veil-of-exordia]

Overly systematic approaches are characterized by mindlessness.

[smokeyloki]

My professor told me, before our last class today, that I was a "global person", that the way I thought, the way I perceived and analyzed issues in class were not constrained to a single place or culture, I guess? That's how I took it.

It's interesting how being part of a universal faith - a religion that transcends nationalities, races, societies, and all the labels our world is so obsessed with right now - is perceived and explained by people outside of me and my faith.

I would have never thought myself a "global" person, someone at ease with issues pertaining to many cultures and societies. I just consider myself Catholic (which, funnily enough, means universal) and in pursuit of universal, objective truth, which also doesn't care about differences or labels.

[deseos-de-la-via-lactea]

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[nando161mando]

[elegantzombielite]

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor and political activist (b. 7th December 1928)

[animentality]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Science is universal. Literally.

[thecollectibles]

Steven Universe - Art Nouveau Series by Alexa Rockman