About Punkkus

About I'm 36 and single. I sell my paintings online. I take care of 2 cats. I'm in the middle of writing a mini-autobiography, but instead of writer's block I got a case of existential crisis to overcome before I can finish my book.
Location DC, USA
Website www.etsy.com/shop/paintoutside
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Favourite quotations "If you are lonely when alone then you are in bad company." -Sartre

"You have to be odd to be number one." - Dr. Seuss

"A man can't step in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and it's not the same man." - Heraclitus

"A person who seeks God through logical proof is like someone who searches for the sun with a lamp." - sufi proverb

'When your mind plays tricks on you then it's best to play them tricks right back.' - punkkus

"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Nietzsche

"...Thomas Aquinas, the great teacher and saint: "In the kingdom of heaven" he says as gently as a lamb, "the blessed will see the punishment of the damned, so that they will derive all the more pleasure from their heavenly bliss.” ― Nietzsche

"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance." - John Archibald Wheeler

"Any parent can forgive the little things, Earl. The big things test us." - Fran, Dinosaurs.

"When ye fight with a wolf of the pack ye must fight him alone and afar, Lest others take part in the quarrel and the pack is diminished by war."

'Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.' - Bob Ross

“In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.” - Leon Trotsky

"There are people in this world who deal only in extremes. It would be naive to think that anything less than extreme measures will stop them." - Arrow

"Until Einstein's time, scientists typically would observe things, record them, then find a piece of mathematics that explained the results. Einstein exactly reserves that process. He starts off with a beautiful piece of mathematics that's based on some very deep insights into the way the universe works and then, from that, makes predictions about what ought to happen in the world. It's a stunning reversal to the usual ordering in which science is done... [Einstein demonstrated] the power of human creativity in the sciences..." - Sylvester James Gates

"Chess, says Russell, has “known rules and short horizons”, and it is “fully observable, discrete, deterministic, static”. The real world, by contrast, “shares exactly none of these characteristics”."

As Kasparov puts it: “Machines aren’t capable of stopping when they get to the point of diminishing returns.” At the AI conferences he has attended, he says, there is a perennial topic that draws some of the biggest audiences: how to get the machines to stop."

"If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than someone else's." - Spock

"Authorities must prove their contentions like everybody else." - Carl Sagan

"No matter what system of thought you have, it can't possibly include boundless life." - Joseph Campbell
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