February 2009
36 posts
“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of...”
– Robert F. Kennedy
“To those — to those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those...”
– President-Elect Obama
“If we fail to dare, if we do not try, the next generation will harvest the fruit...”
– Robert F. Kennedy
“Until victory always.”
– Che
“To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of...”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of...”
– Hubert Selby Jr.
“I’m not really a plates kind of guy.”
– President Obama
“The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars.”
– Johnny Cash
“Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s...”
– Bob Dylan
“If it’s a lie, then we fight on that lie.”
– Greatest television show ever, The Wire
“I may have many faults, but being wrong ain’t one of them.”
– Jimmy Hoffa
“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your...”
– Charles Eames (via theimpossiblecool)
“You know, each time it feels appallingly difficult, and there doesn’t come the...”
– Peter Morgan, screenwriter. “The Queen,” “Frost/Nixon,” “The Last King of Scotland,” “Longford”
“If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”
– Henry Ford
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or...”
– Jim Jarmusch, filmmaker
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
– Pablo Picasso
“I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist.”
– Bob Dylan
“I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a...”
– Milton Berle
“No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”
– Bertrand Russell
“As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
– Albert Einstein
“Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip...”
– Thomas Nagel
“Is it not possible that an objective approach that frowns upon personal...”
– Paul Feyerabend
“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
– Socrates
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.
… what is drawn...”
– Heraclitis
“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
– Blaise Pascal
“Hegelians, who love a synthesis, will probably conclude that he wears a wig.”
– Bertrand Russell, in reference to his famous example, “The present King of France is bald.”
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“Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it...”
– Epictetus
“On those stepping into rivers the same, other and other waters flow.”
– Heraclitis — This cryptic assertion is where we get the saying that most people think of when they think of Heraclitis, “everything is in a state of flux”.
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their...”
– John Locke based much of his theories about property on his observations of human nature.
“It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and...”
– Epicurus— This points to Epicurus’ belief that pleasure was a vital part of human happiness. Not all happiness is derived from “doing the right thing”.
“If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that...”
– Albert Camus Second Letter to a German Friend, December 1943. Camus beleived that the universe was indifferent and absurd, but he rejected nihilism. It is from our own decisions and actions that we can create meaning.
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“Virtue (arete) then is a settled disposition of the mind determining the choice...”
– Aristotle (Book II, Ch. 6)— Important here— for a person to act virtuously, they must base their decision on “the mean”. What is “the mean”? Simplistically put, not too much, not too little, just right. Also important— “the mean” is not...
“Fear is the mother of morality.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche argued that the origin of modern western morality was when the Have-nots tried to assert power over the Haves. How would this ever work, you might ask? Make the Haves scared, then provide a soothing answer for them. If you do that, the Haves soon assume the morality of the...