quotidian

Gung Ho!

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Did He Never Tire of Being Brilliant?

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butler

True, on Multiple Levels

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Don Marquis (1878-1937)

Maybe Not The Best, But A Really Good Question Nevertheless

Why must there always be a problem?

George Costanza
"Seinfeld" - Frogger Machine episode

God Dogs

Someone asked Herr Keuner if there is a God. Herr Keuner said: I advise you to think about how your behaviour would change with regard to the answer to this question. If it would not change, then we can drop the question. If it would change, then I can help you at least insofar as I can tell you: You already decided: You need a God.

Bertolt Brecht

We Cover The Earth

Save the surface and you save all.

Sherwin Williams
also, epigraph to W.V. Quine's Pursuit of Truth

The Only Fear

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

Primo Levi
epigraph to The Culture of Make-Believe by Derrick Jensen

I Can See That

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anaïs Nin

I Must Remember That (Twilight Zone Style)

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Long Weekend

If we once assume that there cannot be the unconditioned, then we're stuck. On the other hand, if we assume that there is the unconditioned, again we are going to be stuck -- we will produce an image of the unconditioned in the system of conditioning, and mistake the image for the unconditioned. Therefore, let's say that there may be the unconditioned. We leave room for that. We have to leave room in our thought for possibilities.

David Bohm
Thought as a System, p73