Charlie Chaplin felt so strongly about fighting fascism against Hitler in 1940 that he broke his silence for the first time ever to deliver this monologue
What do polar bears do in Summer
Photographer Martin Gregus documented the lesser depicted side of polar bears, from cooling off in tidal pools to sleeping in purple fields fireweed flowers
Musician and artist Yohei Kisanuki creates some trippy zoetropic art using a whiteboard and marker atop a spinning potter’s wheel.
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Close-up of the 4500-year-old statue of Kaaper, an ancient Egyptian scribe and priest who lived between the late 4th Dynasty-early 5th Dynasty.
The statue is made of sycamore wood and the eyes were made using rock crystal and small copper plates. Egyptian Museum, Cairo
The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save—the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour—your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.
"Translation of the text written in gold at the entrance to the temple of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet, Karnak temple. "
“I’m just asking you to enter my house with respect. To serve you I don't need your devotion, but your sincerity. Not even your belief, but your thirst for knowledge. Come in with your vices, fears, and hates; from the oldest to the smallest, I can help you melt them away. You can look at me and love me as a woman, as a mother, as a daughter, as a sister, as a friend, but never look at me as an authority above yourself. If the devotion you have for any God is greater than the one you have for the God in you, offend both and offend ONE"