Why on Earth are we here?
Surely not to live in pain and fear.
Why on Earth are you there,
When you're everywhere.
Come and get your share.
Lennon
“A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started.”
― Henny Youngman
Science is great in telling us what we know, how we know, and why we know, while Philosophy endures the hard task of hinting on what we can hardly understand and why is often the case that we understand way less then we are lead to believe.
It is no wonder these two kinds of sensibility are often at odds with each other. Rarely it is the case that you find a marriage between the two of them and when you do you often are in front of the greatest minds Humakind has ever produced!
Filipe de Albuquerque
“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
― Patrick Henry
@edgarblythe,
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John Lindsay
"There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time."
-- David Eagleman, author of SUM: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
"If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll even empty his pockets for you.”
LBJ
“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
― Malcolm X
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.” ~Ogden Nash
“When **** becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.”
― Henry Miller
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
― Winston Churchill
Intelligence is a different form of stupidity!
(Just now 9:11 PM 08/10/2021)
Filipe de Albuquerque
“We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
“That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.”
― Noam Chomsky
@edgarblythe,
Yeah, it's like a politician standing for law and order. How are you going to counter that? No, I'm for breaking the law and disorder?
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.”
― Jonathan Swift
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good."
--Funeral Blues (Song IX / from Two Songs for Hedli Anderson)
W H Auden
As my sixty-seventh birthday approaches (or I approach it in the sense that a fellow jumping from the top of the Empire State approaches the sixty-seventh floor)."
--Saul Bellow
Boo-hoo. Try your 79th birthday.
