“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
“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)
“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
In my latest Mercatornet column I say the mania for booster shots for vaccines that don’t work very well to stop a variant they may not work against at all is not science.
“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
In my latest Epoch Times column I say if there’s really a burgeoning mental health crisis over hair loss we’ve lost more from our heads than just the stuff above our scalps.
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
Vidal Sassoon, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html)