Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.
A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.
To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.
It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
On ne re c° oit pas la sagesse, il faut la de couvrir soi-me" me, apre' s un trajet que personne ne peut faire pour nous, ne peut nous e pargner. We do not receive wisdom. We must discover it ourselves after experiences which no one else can have for us and from which no one else can spare us.