 016-06-02 Contradiction
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.) -- Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" | |
015-06-02 On 'Morality'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- H. G. Wells, "The Wife of Isaac Harman" | |
014-06-02 In Defence of ChaosIn Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed---they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce...? The cuckoo clock. -- Orson Welles, "The Third Man" | |
013-06-02 AccuracyGod is on the side not of the heavy battalions, but of the best shots. -- Voltaire, "The Piccini Notebooks" | |
012-06-02 LuckAudentis Fortuna iuvat.
Fortune assists the bold. -- Virgil, "Aeneid" | |
011-06-02 BrainsOne man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. -- George Bernard Shaw, "The Apple Cart" | |
010-06-02 Against ReasonThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" | |
009-06-02 ImaginationYou see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' -- George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah" | |
008-06-02 KnowledgeAll our knowledge is, ourselves to know. -- Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Man, Epistle 4" | |
007-06-02 WisdomA man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope, "Miscellanies", 'Thoughts on Various Subjects' | |
006-06-02 DoublethinkDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. -- George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" | |
005-06-02 PowerWho controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" | |
004-06-02 Equality (?)All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. -- George Orwell, "Animal Farm" | |
003-06-02 Goal in LifeLives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "A Psalm of Life" | |
002-06-02 VirtueThe Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. -- Lord Macaulay, "History of England vol. 1" | |
001-06-02 BeginningsA beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. -- Frank Herbert, "Dune" | |
