My Life in Quotes- #6
"The great fault of us all is that we force logic on facts, whereas it is facts themselves that create logic."- ibid. (D.T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism)
You have to face the facts. There’s no hiding from that reality. We don’t have to like the facts, we can disagree, we can wish that things are different, yet it is true that “it is the facts themselves that create logic.”
I encountered this quote in the pre-computer world. Copied it from a physical book into a physical notebook. In a world of A.I., what constitutes a fact is terribly unclear and becoming indiscernible.
We live in a world of your facts and my facts and no real ways to measure objective facts. Perhaps that’s why contemporary life sometimes feels so illogical.
About this series-
I love words. I love when a word exactly captures the moment, the feeling. How it precisely describes something that you experienced but didn’t know exactly how to express. It’s like a warm bath or a deeply satisfying meal.
And beyond that- a collection of words. A deeply insightful phrase, thought-provoking and uplifting. A quote to remember.
I started collecting quotes when I was 16 years old. (1972) I’m 68 now, as I write these words, (2024), and there are 472 quotes in my collection. At this precise moment.
That’s not really that many over the course of 52 years. I guess I am fairly discriminating. Sometimes years can go by and the collection lays dormant. In other years there is a great harvest of quotes.
These are not necessarily famous quotes, things you’ll often hear referenced. For the most part, they simply represent words that I read that made me stop for a moment to meditate and bask in their impact. And quotes I enjoy reading and re-reading and quoting myself!
These quotes represent the evolution of my thinking over the course of 52 years. I look forward to pondering what it is that made me find each one meaningful enough to save.
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