Teo

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Teo’s Quotes

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

2334 likes

“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.”
― Robert Sapolsky

tags: music, science

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“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
― Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky and Other Poems

tags: alice, carroll, jabberwock, jabberwocky, lewis, wonderland

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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: aspirations, castles-in-the-air, dreams, foundations, futility, goals, security, work-lost

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Teo’s Groups

Goodreads Librarians Group — 316951 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Nonviolent/Compassionate/Needs-Based communication — 10 members — last activity Mar 23, 2015 06:12AM
Inspired by the late Marshall Rosenberg, and his needs-based communication, in this group people from all walks of life meet to share about their expe ...more

Kobo Users — 135 members — last activity Mar 01, 2026 02:21AM
This is a group of people who use Kobo to get together and talk about all things Kobo and book related!

Sentientism — 253 members — last activity Mar 18, 2026 09:23AM
"Sentientism is an ethical philosophy that grants degrees of moral consideration to all sentient beings. Sentientism extends humanism by showing compa ...more