Out here in the fields, I fight for my meals, I get my back into my living.
I don't need to fight, To prove I'm right, I don't need to be forgiven.
The Who, Baba O'Riley
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Where is the subject and where is the object if you are operating on your own brain? The point is made by the expression “what we are looking for is what is looking.” Consciousness involves a paradoxical self-reference, a ability taken for granted, to refer to ourselves separate from the environment.
Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe
Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Friday, June 04, 2004
Friday, May 28, 2004
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
His understanding lies, I think, rather in seeing large things largely than correctly....In the conduct of affairs he may perhaps be able to take so comprehensive a view as to render invention and expedient unnecessary.
Franklin Alexander, describing John Adams as quoted by David McCullough in his John Adams.
Franklin Alexander, describing John Adams as quoted by David McCullough in his John Adams.
Saturday, May 22, 2004
I am not going to speak to you at all about the justice or injustice of your conduct. I know very well that this word is nothing but noise, when it is a question of the general interest. I could speak to you about the means by which you could succeed, and ask you whether you are strong enough to play the role of oppressors; this would be closer to the heart of the matter. However I will not even do that, but I will confine myself to imploring you to cast your eyes on the nations who hate you: ask them; see what they think of you, and tell me to what extent you have resolved to make your enemies laugh at you.
Denis Diderot in June 1776 to John Wilkes in reference to British pursuit of war to suppress the American colonies, as quoted by Emma Rothschild in The New York Review (March 25, 2004).
Denis Diderot in June 1776 to John Wilkes in reference to British pursuit of war to suppress the American colonies, as quoted by Emma Rothschild in The New York Review (March 25, 2004).
Friday, April 30, 2004
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Monday, April 05, 2004
Sunday, March 28, 2004
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
…the lessons to be learned from Thucydides are no different from the ones that the tragic playwrights teach: that the arrogant self can become the abject Other; that failure to bend, to negotiate, inevitably results in terrible fracture; that, because we are only human, our knowledge is merely knowingness, our vision partial rather than whole, and we must tread carefully in the world.
Daniel Mendelsohn, “Theatres of War,” The New Yorker, January 12, 2004
Daniel Mendelsohn, “Theatres of War,” The New Yorker, January 12, 2004
Friday, March 05, 2004
Saturday, February 28, 2004
McQuillan walked into a bar and ordered martini after martini, each time removing the olives and placing them in a jar. When the jar was filled with olives and all the drinks consumed, the Irishman started to leave. "S' cuse me", said a customer, who was puzzled over what McQuillan had done,"what was that all about?" "Nothin', said the Irishman, "me wife just sent me out for a jar of olives!"
A martini joke, not an Irish joke: "He said, like James Bond? I said, yes, just like James Bond."
A martini joke, not an Irish joke: "He said, like James Bond? I said, yes, just like James Bond."
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
…all the provisions that He has [made] for the gratification of our senses…are much inferior to the provision, the wonderful provision that He has made for the gratification of our nobler powers of intelligence and reason. He has given us reason to find out the truth, and the real design and true end of our existence.
A young John Adams as quoted by David McCullough in his John Adams.
A young John Adams as quoted by David McCullough in his John Adams.
Thursday, February 05, 2004
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