It's a gray and rainy day in St. Louis. Not a sad day, but a thoughtful day. I took a moment to read some Camus. I respond intensely to much of his work. His simple writing style elegantly carries deep thoughts. Here are some of my favorite quotes by Camus: A…
I collect quotes. They come from many places. Many of them come from the quote of the day page of The Quotations Page--it's my browser's home page. Here is a sampling of quotations that I've especially enjoyed over the past two months: Last night I stayed up late playing poker with…
Good quotes are explosive. There's a novel hiding in every good quote. Well, here's a good collection of subversive quotes from Vagabox. It includes many of my favorites and many that I hadn't read before. Here's a tiny sampling from a large collection: The police are not here to create…
I collect my favorites from various sources, though I was reminded of many of these quotes by The Quotations Page (which offers quotes of the day). There is a condensed book in every good quote:
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948)
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg (1933 – ), quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
Pat Conroy (1945 – )
It’s not a matter of whether or not someone’s watching over you. It’s just a question of their intentions.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 03-24-07
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
Johann von Neumann (1903 – 1957)
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 – 1799)
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Einstein
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.…
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) [Thanks go to The Quotations Page for this one].