I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
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P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod
Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each moment in peace.
Marcus Aurelius
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results,but that's not why we do it.
Richard Feynman
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile.
Richard Feynman, Surely You're J
We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves.We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.
John Brunner, Judas 1967
Technology is very seductive, and it is certainly changing the way things are designed and made and taught. The problem is when technology has seduced you away from thinking about things as deeply as you should.
Arthur Ganson
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
General George Catlett Marshall,
Never judge a man by his umbrella. It may not be his.
Anon.
To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.
William Plomer
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.
Sir John Mortimer
What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more.
John Stuart Mill, essay, The Con
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.
John Kenneth Galbraith, The New
There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.
Sarah Josepha Hale, Traits of Am
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
Samuel Johnson
When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.
Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl Gustav Jung
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.
Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Rep
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.
Charles Swindoll
There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
Will Rogers
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myselfwould be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, ch
Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
Eric Hoffer
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.
P. J. O'Rourke
Home life, as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
George Bernard Shaw, from the 19
Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard wordsbruise the heart of a child.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
C. Northcote Parkinson
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.
Expenditures rise to meet income.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Cecil Parkinson
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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