A toast to the human madness.
Month: August 2018
Learning Quotation
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928
Age
Why
Quote: Ignorance – W. E. B. Du Bois
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
– W. E. B. Du Bois
Poverty ~ Matt Damon
“You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.”
– Matt Damon
Democracy ~ Howard Zinn
“Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning democracy.”
– Howard Zinn
Life Quote
Thinking
Is there a difference between a trial run vs a real one?
Reading Quote: Maya Angelou
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way around, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
-Maya Angelou
Quote: Soren Kierkegaard ~ Life
Quote: Chaim Potok – Tea And Happiness
Quote: Democritus – Empty Space
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
~Democritus
Chaos
Fixation
Quote: Nicholas Sparks – A Great Paradox
Quote: Hermann Hesse, To Hold Our Tongues
“To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.”
– Hermann Hesse
Reading A Book
Quote: Pete Seeger, Small Villages
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
~Pete Seeger
Mark Twain Quotation
Franz Kafka Quotation: Darkness
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
~Franz Kafka
Bob Dylan Quotation: The Human Mind
Carl Sagan Quotation
The Beatles
Quote: Hermann Hesse
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
~Hermann Hesse
