Sign in with Facebook
“I have to remember, too, that sex is one of those areas—like religion and politics—where otherwise decent and rational people may have intense, irrational feelings.”
― On the Move: A Life
― On the Move: A Life
“What an odd thing it is to see an entire species -- billions of people -- playing with, listening to meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call 'music.' (-- The Overlords, from Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End)”
― Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
― Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
“That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.”
― Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
― Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
“Diseases have a character of their own, but they also partake of our character; we have a character of our own, but we also partake of the world’s character: character is monadic or microcosmic, worlds within worlds within worlds, worlds which express worlds. The disease-the man-the world go together, and cannot be considered separately as things-in-themselves.”
― Awakenings
― Awakenings
“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see overall patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or at least the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology or in states of mind which allow us to travel to other worlds, to transcend our immediate surroundings. We need detachment of this sort as much as we need engagement in our lives.”
― Hallucinations
― Hallucinations
Underground Knowledge � A discussion group
— 22957 members
— last activity 23 hours, 10 min ago
This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring ...more
Rebeka’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Rebeka’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
176 books
|
92 friends
50 books
|
123 friends
14 books
|
59 friends
1 book
|
8 friends
2 books
|
2 friends
131 books
|
14 friends
88 books
|
102 friends
1 book
|
3 friends
More friends�
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Rebeka
Lists liked by Rebeka
