What’s the opposite of determinism?”
“Chaos.”
“Oh, I don’t think I like that. Do you like that?”
[…]
“Well, I do and I don’t. Chaos is more freedom; in fact total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.

— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife)

Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.

— Cornelia Funke (via larmoyante)

There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one’s idea for thirty-five years; there’s something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot (via larmoyante)

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.

— Aaron Swartz (via tomorrowsparties)

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