There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves when it was happening: there is a pleasant panoramic sense of what it all was and how it all had to be. Why, if we are not vain or snobbish, need we desire that it should have been different? The better things we missed may yet be enjoyed or attained by someone else somewhere:...
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them. -Edward R. Murrow Read More →
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don’t want to do them. -Nancy Astor, In “Hammer and Tongues,” by Brown and O’Connor, 1986 Read More →
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world ? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue our future lives will be less afflicted. -W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge Read More →
We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet Read More →
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. -Marshal Ferdinand Foch Read More →
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. -Charles Caleb Colton Read More →
The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity. -Taylor Caldwell, On Growing Up Tough [chapter: Dolts and Love Cultists] Read More →
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles. -John Adams Read More →
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. -Paul Gauguin Read More →
