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František Kupka (1871–1957) Mme Kupka among Verticals 1910–1911

Oil on canvas 135.5 x 85.3 cm

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Frida Kahlo - self portrait with cropped hair

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind (via philosophybits)

𝟓/𝟑𝟎 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠

Endless amounts of reading, caffeine, and attempting to understand the computation of quantum information

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) “Vase with Irises” (1890) Oil on canvas Post-Impressionism Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

By alixelay

Power should act and not talk.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections (via philosophybits)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (1934)