Wisdom Crackers: Heuristics for people with short attention spans. Fortune Cookies for Intellectuals.
Plagiarism was originally my idea. ~anonymous
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde
The most important things in life are not things.
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.“ ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Sometimes the bowl can become hotter than the soup - Iranian Proverb
It's better to be alone than to wish to be alone. ~ unknown
We become what we think about. ~ Earl Nightingale
F.H. Bradley: “Experience is a poor teacher; it has taught me how to know, but not how to avoid.”
You are my Creator, but I am your Master. - Frankenstein.
Not only is the Universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Arthur Eddington
Mathematics is the attempt to say more and more with less and less.
“I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.” .......Douglas Adams
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust
'The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.' -- Blaise Pascal, Pensees
'The city allows you to become yourself by making a stranger of you.' Diken, Bulent, and Laustsen, Carsten: The culture of exception, sociology facing the camp. Page 1
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. – Neils H. D. Bohr (1885 – 1962)
I am a miracle. ~ Walt Whitman.
Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology. Adorno/Horkheimer
To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself. Marx: Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right.
Everything is Number. Pythagoras.
I speak with my body, and I don't know it. Therefore, I always say more than I know about it. Jacques Lacan
'My actions are my only true belongings' Thich Nhat Hann
The principle of mythologization lies in our needs to find someone or something responsible for everything that happens. (Bouveresse, 1995, p. 34)
'The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.' -- Marcus Aurelius