“There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on."
William Blake "English poet and painter (1757-1827)” quoted as "Thought du jour" in Social Studies in Globe & Mail November 20, 2012
Edmund Wilson’s search for “ultimate meaning in the things of this world... quite often fooled him into thinking that the search for transcendent sensuality can be other than vain.”
Terry Teachout in National Review August 9, 1993
“Mysteries are like the sun, dazzling, yet plain to all eyes.”
John Donne "in his third satire" quoted by George Watson in Chronicles magazine September 1991
“The economist’s definition of scarcity is so broad that practically everything can be called scarce… Even if the air is free, we have limited lung capacity.”
P.J. O’Rourke Eat the Rich
“There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.”
Don Herold, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail December 28, 2000
“Life is full of obstacle illusions.”
Grant Frazier, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
Ludwig Wittgenstein on BrainyQuote (https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ludwig_wittgenstein_103576)
“Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.”
G.K. Chesterton, “On Experience,” in All Is Grist, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #3 (Dec. 2000)