Are Better When Shared

Become More Valuable When Shared

Become Stronger When Shared

Create Acceleration

Create Common Ground

Create Depth

Create Depth Over Time

Create Longing

Create Momentum

Create More Than They Consume

Create More Than They Cost

Create Openings

Create Optionality

Create Ripples

Depend On Being Renewed

Don’t Need An Audience

Drift

Escape

Escape Containers

Escape Gravity

Exist Mostly In The Mind

Expand

Grow In Darkness

Happen Only In Your Head

Ignore Boundaries

Improve A Conversation

Improve By Being Carried

Invite

Invite Departure

Leave Openings

Make A Day Feel Shorter

make other things bigger

Make The World Feel Larger

Need Cultivation

Need No Witness

Need Renewal

Occupy Attention

Quietly Create Opportunity

Quietly Decide Futures

Quietly Hold The Future

Quietly Multiply

Quietly Reward

Quietly Shape A Life

Quietly Shape Decisions

Quietly Shape Everything

Quietly Shape Identity

Recruit The Future

Resist Being Counted

Return

Reward Adaptation

Reward Depth

Reward Flexibility

Reward Humility

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Reward Temptation

Survive Translation

Take Attention Without Asking

Transform Whatever They Touch

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is a blindness that possesses one, giving him no reason to hope for success, but making him willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth he seeks lies there.

So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.Rene Descartes

is a brute force which could be rooted in the habit of examining all things in search of food.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.William Winwood Reade

is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry... for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom... without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.Albert Einstein

is a desire (to know why and how) that exist in no living creatures other than man.

Hobbes defines curiosity as the desire to know why and how. There is nothing remarkable about this simple definition. What is interesting is that Hobbes adds the comment that curiosity exist in no living creatures other than man, so that curiosity as well as reason are what distinguish man from other animals. (Hobbes: Morals and Politics By D D Raphael, D. D. Raphael)

is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

is a vice, and problematic because it distracted man from his proper sacred concerns.

Augustine was particularly uneasy about worldly curiosity because of its potential to distract man from his proper sacred concerns. Moreover, insofar as legitimate knowledge comes only from its rightful author here the Platonic residue was still potent the Truth can be grasped not by examining the world through the fallible senses, but rather through the unmediated acceptance of God's word. What Augustine damned as 'ocular desire'(312), because it led man into temptation, was thus as far removed from the classical emphasis on contemplative vision as the modern stress on its experimental counterpart. ((jay 1985 reveiw of blumenberg : 191) . . . . Although the Scholastics were poised ambiguously between Aristotle's affirmation of a contemplative knowledge of the cosmos and Augustine's warning against all curiosity as a vice, it was not really until the modern age that the verdict of the 'trial'was finally rendered in favor of unconstrained curiosity. ((jay 1985 reveiw of blumenberg : 191)

is always concealed arrogance of a self-consciousness that banks on a self-inverted ratio of its rationality. The will to know does not will to abide in hope before what is worthy of thought.

Thirst for knowledge and greed for explanations never lead to a thinking inquiry. Curiosity is always the concealed arrogance of a self-consciousness that banks on a self-invented ratio and its rationality. The will to know does not will to abide in hope before what is worthy of thought. (heidegger 'a dialogue on language' : 13)

is an objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.Ambrose Bierce

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