Category: gay photography

An Isolated Discovery

Photographer Unknown, (An Isolated Discovery)

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.

—John William Draper, History of the Conflict Between Religion and Scien

Jawaharlal Nehru: “Yet The Past is Ever With Us”

Photographer Unknown, (The Past is Ever With Us)

“Yet the past is ever with us and all that we are and that we have comes from the past. We are its products and we live immersed in it. Not to understand it and feel it as something living within us is not to understand the present. To combine it with the present and extend it to the future, to break from it where it cannot be so united, to make of all this the pulsating and vibrating material for thought and action—that is life.”

― Jawaharlal Nehru

Nothing Up Your Sleeve

Photographer Unknown, (Nothing Up You Sleeve)

“Decency is the absence of strategy. It is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior’s approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. That is decency.”

-Chögyam Trungpace

Henry David Thoreau: “I Do Believe in Simplicity”

Photographer Unknown, (The Moth Tattoo)

“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all encumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. ”

― Henry David Thoreau