metaphor
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Reinventing the Wheel: A Brief History of the Circle as a Visual Metaphor for Organizing Information | Brain Pickings
“Everything rolls, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being,” Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Indeed, it seems that for as far back as we’re able to peer into human history, the wheel has been one of our… Continue reading
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Upon the Depths of Uncertainty
Consider metaphysical thinking as the building up of vessels allowing us to explore the oceans of reality. Their hulls carry the provisions of our accumulated knowledge. Their rudders direct course by the pole star of the “Why not?” Their sails… Continue reading
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Goodbye
Originally posted on allmostrelevant: Two people lived on a small man-made island just off the shore of the mainland. These two residents were not the only people on this island, but they lived alone. The residents were both on a… Continue reading


