“Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth”
― Jeremy Taylor
"I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle."
Edward O. Wilson
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton
"It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
Resign yourself to be the fool you are...
...We must always take risks. That is our destiny..."
T.S. Eliot, "The Cocktail Party"
@coluber2001,
Today you can rent everything but a politician. You have to buy those.
One important politician wanted to join the others on Mt Rushmore, but they don't have room for two more faces.
Milton Berle
“On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?
There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
"I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic."
Leonard Bernstein
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan
"Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river."
Nikita Khrushchev
“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss
@edgarblythe,
You can't start the next chapter, if you keep retreading the same chapter.
@edgarblythe,
Your heart knows things, your mind can't explain.
"Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows."
Joseph Campbell, "A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living"
“You may delay, but time will not.”
― Benjamin Franklin
"Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another."
Joseph Campbell
"Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed."
Joseph Campbell, "The Hero With a Thousand Faces"
“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."
Edward O. Wilson
Art to me was a state, it didn't need to be an accomplishment. By any of the standards of production, achievement, performance, I was not an artist. But I always thought of myself as one.
Margaret Anderson
"My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices."
Sergei Prokofiev
