Essential science has so far been (officially) done in our ordinary state
of consciousness, but my understanding of any state of consciousness is
that any state has both advantages and disadvantages. There is no one state
that is uniformly superior in all regards.... Thus if we want a complete
understanding of consciousness, we must practice essential science in a
variety of states of consciousness, and create and refine complementary
bodies of state-specific knowledge. -- C. T. Tart
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Monday, December 19, 2022
Fortune Quote #3798
As di bubbe volt gehat beytsim volt zi gevain mayn zaidah ("If my
grandmother had balls, she'd be my grandfather"). -- Yiddish saying
grandmother had balls, she'd be my grandfather"). -- Yiddish saying
Sunday, December 18, 2022
Fortune Quote #3797
Something that is simultaneously bungling, messy, disgraceful, and
disastrous usually requires very clever people working very hard at being
clever. Watergate was the classic example. -- Thomas Sowell
disastrous usually requires very clever people working very hard at being
clever. Watergate was the classic example. -- Thomas Sowell
Saturday, December 17, 2022
Fortune Quote #3796
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can
lose. -- Evan Esar
lose. -- Evan Esar
Friday, December 16, 2022
Fortune Quote #3795
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea,
which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to
himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the
possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because
every other possesses the whole of it. -- Thomas Jefferson
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea,
which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to
himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the
possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because
every other possesses the whole of it. -- Thomas Jefferson
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Fortune Quote #3794
Photographs of crowded cities in third world countries may create the
impression that there is not enough room for the populations of these
countries, and that this somehow accounts for their poverty. However,
crowding is what cities are all about, whether in poor countries or in rich
countries. Park Avenue has more people per square mile than in many third
world villages or urban slums. Crowding lowers the cost per person of
supplying everything from electricity to running water to sewage lines,
movie theaters, and ambulance services. -- Thomas Sowell
impression that there is not enough room for the populations of these
countries, and that this somehow accounts for their poverty. However,
crowding is what cities are all about, whether in poor countries or in rich
countries. Park Avenue has more people per square mile than in many third
world villages or urban slums. Crowding lowers the cost per person of
supplying everything from electricity to running water to sewage lines,
movie theaters, and ambulance services. -- Thomas Sowell
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Fortune Quote #3793
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always
been like this. -- Gustave Flaubert
been like this. -- Gustave Flaubert
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Fortune Quote #3792
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has,
because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying
into that matter. -- Mark Twain
because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying
into that matter. -- Mark Twain
Monday, December 12, 2022
Fortune Quote #3791
You ask what is our policy. I will say, it is to wage war with all our
might, with all the strength that God can give us, to wage war against a
monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of
human crime. -- Winston Churchill, 1940
might, with all the strength that God can give us, to wage war against a
monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of
human crime. -- Winston Churchill, 1940
Sunday, December 11, 2022
Fortune Quote #3790
One of the reasons I don't like personal invective is that it usually
leads you to the wrong answer. The world is way more complicated than
that. -- George Friedman, founder of Stratfor
leads you to the wrong answer. The world is way more complicated than
that. -- George Friedman, founder of Stratfor
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