Category Archives: quotes
Behold!
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. Marshall McLuhan
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
Sublime
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.~Thomas Paine
Free Speech
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. ~ Salman Rushdie
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.~Benjamin Disraeli
If we wish to be judges of all things, let us first persuade ourselves of this: that there is not one of us without fault; no man is found who can acquit himself; and he who calls himself innocent does so with reference to a witness, and not to his conscience. –Seneca
Blocking the path
Lines
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.~Elbert Hubbard
A game for a Fool
The road to truth
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.~Buddha
truth?
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~Wallace Stevens
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