Ludwig Wittgenstein (via philphys)
Mr.Spock (via philphys)
Bertrand Russell (via philphys)
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John Green (via philphys)
Mozart’s famous Requiem in D minor was performed complete for the first time 219 years ago.
The masterpiece was composed in Vienna in 1791 and left unfinished at the composer’s death. A completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg, who had anonymously commissioned the piece for a requiem Mass to commemorate the February 14 anniversary of his wife’s death… (more)
Listen to the Requiem conducted by Sir Georg Solti here:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (via thecultofgenius)
“The damage has been done and this machine
has begun, on a path of destruction
We need the medicine to reverse
whats been done, before this disease
has destroyed everything we know
All we need is a reason
All we need is here
Right inside us all”
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God is not the Creator
Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar, claims that the first sentence of Genesis “in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth” is not a true translation of the Hebrew. Actually, the writer of the book intended that Earth was already there and God merely “spatially separated” Heaven and Earth.
wow. this is an interesting theory.
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