“The truth is, whatever you can’t talk about is already out of control in your life…”
Rick Warren The Purpose-Driven Life
“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
“Jonathan Winters (1925-), American comedian and actor” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 28, 2011
“The question of the existence of God is the single most important question we face about the nature of reality…. Neither question [does the concept of a personal God make sense and should we believe in one] is easy to answer. God is a different kind of being from any other that we might speak about.”
John Polkinghorne The Faith of a Physicist
“Cell phones are little chunks of evil.”
Roy Darcus in Globe & Mail July 21, 2000
“Life is a business that doesn’t cover its costs.”
Schopenhauer, quoted in Martin Heidegger An Introduction to Metaphysics (Heidegger did not agree, but said in recent centuries it had been treated like one)
“Thucydides... wanted to be ‘judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which happened in the past and (human nature being what it is) will, at some time or other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future.’”
National Review March 6, 1995
“The term nearest to being synonymous with pleasure is volition: what it pleases a man to do, or what he pleases to do, may be far from giving him enjoyment; yet shall we say that in doing it, he is not following his own pleasure?… A native of Japan, when he is offended, stabs himself to prove the intensity of his feelings. It is difficult to prove enjoyment in this case: yet the man obeyed his impulses.”
John Hill Burton, “Bentham’s editor”, quoted in I.A. Richards Principles of Literary Criticism and sourced to Jeremy Bentham’s Works, vol. I
“Paranoid fear and suspicion is found in up to one-third of people, a surprising new study says. Four in 10 have marked worries about negative comments being made about them; 27 per cent say they believe people are deliberately trying to irritate them; one-fifth worry about being observed; and five per cent believe there may be a conspiracy to harm them.”
Maclean’s July 24, 2006