What good is reason if it drives out beauty, terror, and vivid emotion? Can
a thousand facts compare with that epiphanic moment, when a poet stands tall
in a lightning storm, hurling challenges at God?
David Brin - Otherness
November 27, 2007
What good is reason if it drives out beauty, terror, and vivid emotion? Can
a thousand facts compare with that epiphanic moment, when a poet stands tall
in a lightning storm, hurling challenges at God?
David Brin - Otherness
November 26, 2007
Caesar: Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian and thinks the customs of
his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
George Bernard Shaw - Caesar and Cleopatra, 1898
November 23, 2007
Everyone is entitled to an informed opinion.
Harlan Ellison
November 19, 2007
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
Anne Baxter
November 14, 2007
His comment when committed to an insane asylum.
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
Nathaniel Lee 17th century playwright
November 13, 2007
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing
activity.
Paul Goodman