Human moments are stolen away by a thousand petty impediments.
Samuel Johnson to James Boswell, in his The Life of Samuel Johnson
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Friday, March 25, 2005
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Friday, March 04, 2005
It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth — this indifference to how things really are — that I regard as the essence of bullshit.
Harry G. Frankfurt, as quoted in Defining Bullshit, Slate.
Harry G. Frankfurt, as quoted in Defining Bullshit, Slate.
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