Noggin

2002-06-07T08:54:00.000-07:00

Mary MacLane

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
Give something.
If not yourself, then a pose.
I gave myself.

2002-06-05T21:44:00.000-07:00

A depressing (and unoriginal) thought

All the great thinking has been done. After thousands of years of civilization not only has it been thought before but someone somewhere has expressed it more eloquently than you could hope to

"And here are trees and I know their gnarled surface, water, and I feel its taste. These scents of grass and strs at night, certain evenings when the heart relaxes - how shall I negate this world whose power and strength I feel? Yet all the knowledge on earth will give me nothing to assure me this world is mine. You describe it to me and teach me to classify it. You enumerate its laws and in my thirst for knowledge I admit they are true. You take apart its mechanism and my hope increases... What need had I of so many efforts? The soft hand of evening on this troubled heart teach me much more"
- Albert Camus, The myth of Sisphus 1942

"Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Misshapes the beauteous forms of things: -
we murder to dissect"
- William Wordsworth "The tables turned" 1798

2002-06-05T21:27:00.000-07:00

Phenonomenology

THe study of the development of human conciousness and self awareness as a preface to philosophy or as part of philosophy

2002-06-05T21:24:00.000-07:00

Epistemic

Of or relating to knowledge : Cognative

2002-06-03T13:08:00.000-07:00

Noggin Bones

As fine a display of ex-noggins as I have seen anywhere on the net:

http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/skulls/