"The last totally accurate weather forecast is sometimes said to have been
when God told Noah there was a 100
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Fortune Quote #2982
Space and time are modes by which we think, not conditions under which we
live. -- Albert Einstein
live. -- Albert Einstein
Monday, September 28, 2020
Fortune Quote #2981
"I've lost more territory to my mapmakers than my enemies." --
Attributed to Louis XIV
Attributed to Louis XIV
Sunday, September 27, 2020
Fortune Quote #2980
In themselves, space and time consist of _nothing_. They are hypostatized
concepts born of the discriminating activity of the conscious mind, and
they form the indispensable co-ordinates for describing the behaviour of
bodies in motion. They are, therefore, essentially psychic in
origin. -- Carl Gustav Jung
concepts born of the discriminating activity of the conscious mind, and
they form the indispensable co-ordinates for describing the behaviour of
bodies in motion. They are, therefore, essentially psychic in
origin. -- Carl Gustav Jung
Saturday, September 26, 2020
Fortune Quote #2979
[The Democrats can] nominate a Peace Democrat on a War Platform or a War
Democrat on a Peace Platform and I personally can't say that I much care
which they do. -- Abraham Lincoln
Democrat on a Peace Platform and I personally can't say that I much care
which they do. -- Abraham Lincoln
Friday, September 25, 2020
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Fortune Quote #2977
Other ages have had their individual traitors---men who from
faint-heartedness or hope of gain sold out their causes. But in the 20th
century, for the first time, men banded together by the million in
movements like Fascism and Communism, dedicated to the purpose of betraying
the institutions they lived under. In the 20th century, treason became a
vocation whose modern form was specifically the treason of ideas.
-- Whittaker Chambers
faint-heartedness or hope of gain sold out their causes. But in the 20th
century, for the first time, men banded together by the million in
movements like Fascism and Communism, dedicated to the purpose of betraying
the institutions they lived under. In the 20th century, treason became a
vocation whose modern form was specifically the treason of ideas.
-- Whittaker Chambers
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Fortune Quote #2976
Give a professor a false thesis in early life, and he will teach it till
he dies. He has no way of correcting it. -- John Jay Chapman
he dies. He has no way of correcting it. -- John Jay Chapman
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Fortune Quote #2975
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different
things. -- H. Poincare
things. -- H. Poincare
Monday, September 21, 2020
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Fortune Quote #2973
Anyway, deconstructionism is all about throwing out the bad cultural
memes, where "bad" is defined as anything an oppressed person doesn't like.
Which is fine as far as it goes, but the spanner in the works is that you
can only be an oppressed person if the deconstructionists say you
are. -- Larry Wall
memes, where "bad" is defined as anything an oppressed person doesn't like.
Which is fine as far as it goes, but the spanner in the works is that you
can only be an oppressed person if the deconstructionists say you
are. -- Larry Wall
Saturday, September 19, 2020
Friday, September 18, 2020
Fortune Quote #2971
The law will punish man or woman, Who steals the goose from off the
common; But turns the greater villain loose, Who steals the common from the
goose. -- English folk rhyme
common; But turns the greater villain loose, Who steals the common from the
goose. -- English folk rhyme
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Fortune Quote #2970
Whether one sees, then, an America with a happier lilt, with people
soaring now in their personal freedom, turns entirely on the question of
whether we screen out, from our vision, any recognition of the victims as
persons, whose injuries somehow count. -- Hadley Arkes
soaring now in their personal freedom, turns entirely on the question of
whether we screen out, from our vision, any recognition of the victims as
persons, whose injuries somehow count. -- Hadley Arkes
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Fortune Quote #2969
Vast new liberties come along with vast new injuries -- unless, of course,
the victims no longer count. -- Hadley Arkes
the victims no longer count. -- Hadley Arkes
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Fortune Quote #2968
It must surely count, too, as one of the paradoxes of this new phase in
our law that people seem to identify their well-being, not with an
obligation to preserve life or go to its rescue, but with the creation of
vast new franchises to destroy human life, for wholly private reasons,
without the need to offer a justification. -- Hadley Arkes
our law that people seem to identify their well-being, not with an
obligation to preserve life or go to its rescue, but with the creation of
vast new franchises to destroy human life, for wholly private reasons,
without the need to offer a justification. -- Hadley Arkes
Monday, September 14, 2020
Fortune Quote #2967
In fact, we have discovered in our own time that judges and political men
are never more rigid and moralistic in their teaching as when they are
ridiculing moral judgements and professing to free people from the tyranny
of moral truths. -- Hadley Arkes
are never more rigid and moralistic in their teaching as when they are
ridiculing moral judgements and professing to free people from the tyranny
of moral truths. -- Hadley Arkes
Sunday, September 13, 2020
Fortune Quote #2966
The malady I am describing here is not confined to those rare quarters of
the academy, where professors, swollen with "theories," may talk themselves
into brands of imbecility so exquisite that they elude the common
man. -- Hadley Arkes
the academy, where professors, swollen with "theories," may talk themselves
into brands of imbecility so exquisite that they elude the common
man. -- Hadley Arkes
Saturday, September 12, 2020
Friday, September 11, 2020
Fortune Quote #2964
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for
armed and resolute wickedness. -- Winston Churchill
armed and resolute wickedness. -- Winston Churchill
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Fortune Quote #2963
No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with
unrepentant wrong. -- Winston Churchill
unrepentant wrong. -- Winston Churchill
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Fortune Quote #2961
The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious
interludes there has never been peace in the world. -- Winston
Churchill
interludes there has never been peace in the world. -- Winston
Churchill
Monday, September 7, 2020
Fortune Quote #2960
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy, is the little man
walking into the booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a
little bit of paper. -- Winston Churchill
walking into the booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a
little bit of paper. -- Winston Churchill
Sunday, September 6, 2020
Fortune Quote #2959
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of
destiny can be handled at a time. -- Winston Churchill
destiny can be handled at a time. -- Winston Churchill
Saturday, September 5, 2020
Fortune Quote #2958
All the greatest things are simple and can be expressed in a single word:
Freedom, Justice, Honor, Duty, Mercy, Hope. -- Winston Churchill
Freedom, Justice, Honor, Duty, Mercy, Hope. -- Winston Churchill
Friday, September 4, 2020
Fortune Quote #2957
It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable
space. -- Winston Churchill
space. -- Winston Churchill
Thursday, September 3, 2020
Fortune Quote #2956
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom not a trade; character
not technicalities. -- Winston Churchill
not technicalities. -- Winston Churchill
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Fortune Quote #2954
The U.N. was set up not to get us to Heaven but only to save us from
Hell. -- Winston Churchill
Hell. -- Winston Churchill
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