Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
Making & Keeping
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
~ Scott Adams
Reason and Calculation
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
- Charles Baudelaire
- Charles Baudelaire
One side to be...
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
-Richard Dawkins, biologist and author (b. 26 Mar 1941)
...imaginations
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
-Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and painter (1919-2021)
judge placed above
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.
-Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (1900-1980)
knows the strength
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
- Woodrow Wilson
did it again
What didn't you do to bury me /
But you forgot that I was a seed.
-Dinos Christianopoulos, poet (1931-2020)
Logic vs Imagination
"Logic will get you from A to Z; Imagination will get you everywhere"
- Albert Einstein
Live vs Exist
"To Live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all"
- Oscar Wilde
Better to prevent
It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.
-Cesare Beccaria, philosopher and politician (1738-1794)
Defence against dangers...
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.
-James Madison, 4th US president (1751-1836)
Diginity....
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
-Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist (1912-1987)
Jungle of weeds
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.
-Luther Burbank, horticulturist (1849-1926)
religion makes excuses
What has occurred over the course of the last few centuries is a growing (but by no means universal or certain) recognition that science gets the job done, while religion makes excuses. Sometimes they are very pretty excuses that capture the imagination of the public, but ultimately, when you want to win a war or heal a dying child or get rich from a discovery or explore Antarctica, you turn to science and reason, or you fail.
-PZ Myers, biology professor (b. 9 Mar 1957)
Golden Rule Animal Rights
The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule -- we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us were any other species in our dominant position.
-Christine Stevens, activist and conservationist (1918-2002)
Beauty is...
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
-Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564)
Opposite of two...
What is the opposite of two?
A lonely me, a lonely you.
-Richard Wilbur, poet and translator (1921-2017)
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