Posted in quote for the week, tagged brain, contradiction, fitzgerald, genius, ideas, intelligence, opposition, quote, thinking, thought on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Posted in quote for the week, tagged enemy, hero, heroism, quote, talmud on May 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“A hero is one who knows how to make a friend out of an enemy”
-old Talmud saying.
Posted in quote for the week, tagged collectivism, individualism, nietzsche, quote on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Posted in quote for the week, tagged oscar wilde, quote, romance, uncertainty, wilde on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty; if ever I get married, I’ll certainly try to forget the fact.”
-Oscar Wilde, The Importance of being Ernest.
Posted in quote for the week, tagged differences, morality, people, quote, relativism, sin on April 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“For there is no such thing as sin; there are only differences.”
-S.B.
Posted in quote for the week, tagged annoy, kingsley amis, quote, writing on April 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“If you can’t annoy somebody with what you write, I think there’s little point in writing.”
-Kingsely Amis
Posted in quote for the week, tagged martin niemoller, niemoller, protest, quote, speech on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics [...]
Posted in math, quote for the week, tagged cantor, freedom, liberty, math, mathematics, quote on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
“The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.”
- George Cantor.
Posted in on certain arts, writings and performances, quote for the week, tagged Mozart, music, quote, schnabel on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
“The sonatas of Mozart are unique: too easy for children, too difficult for adults. Children are given Mozart to play because of the quantity of notes; grown ups avoid him because of the quality of notes … Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters”
-Artur Schnabel
Posted in politics, quote for the week, tagged barack obama, iraq war, obama, quote, quote for the week on March 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »
“I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.”
-Barack Obama, 2002, opposing the impending war in Iraq.
Update: Read the full text of this extraordinary speech here.
Posted in quote for the week, tagged love, poem, quote, Szymborska, true love, Wislawa Szymborska on March 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing.
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.”
-Wislawa Szymborska
Posted in math, quote for the week, tagged a mathematicians apology, art, creation, criticism, hardy, mathematics, quote on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians [...]
Posted in libertarianism, quote for the week, tagged c s lewis, freedom, liberty, nanny-state, paternalism, quote, tyranny on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good [...]
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