Saturday, 2 November 2013

"To be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."



- Gustave Flaubert

Thursday, 31 October 2013

True Thomas Excerpt

O see ye not yon narrow road,
  So thick beset wi’ thorns and briers?
That is the Path of Righteousness,
  Though after it but few inquires.
 

‘And see ye not yon braid, braid road,
 
  That lies across the lily leven?
That is the Path of Wickedness,
  Though some call it the Road to Heaven.
 

‘And see ye not yon bonny road
  That winds about the fernie brae?     
That is the Road to fair Elfland,
  Where thou and I this night maun gae.

Thursday, 10 October 2013

Amare amabam: nesciebam quid amarem. Te inveni.



I was in love with love.
I knew not what to love.
I found thee.
-St. Augustine.


Monday, 7 October 2013

1.[Speaking of Ludwig Wittgenstein]: "The most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived; passionate, profound, intense, and dominating."  - Bertrand Russell



2."Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness." -Ludwig Wittgenstein