One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation. W.V.O. Quine Nietsche is Pietsche." Ogden Nash US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971) "Home is where you wear your hat. Buckaroo Banzai (the film) "Attention, attention, there are monkey-boys in the complex. Buckaroo Banzai (the film) Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it. Lao-Tzu, Tao te Ching Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other. Jonathan Swift Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 - 1965) I bet the human brain is a kludge. Marvin Minsky Nothing endures but personal qualities. Walt Whitman US poet (1819 - 1892) |