Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[TenaciousBadger]

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.


---William Blake

[kennyc]

So true.

[WT Sharpe]

.....I think in no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States.
..........— Alexis [Charles Henri Maurice Clérel] de Tocqueville (1805-1859), French statesman. Democracy in America (1835), Volume II, Section I, chapter I: "Philosophical Method Among the Americans."

[BenG]

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ‘‘science fiction’’ ever since, and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ‘‘Science Fiction’’ (1974)

[kennyc]

Wonderful!

"When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it." B. F. Skinner

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[WT Sharpe]

.....If truth is beauty, how come nobody has their hair done in a library?
..........— Lily Tomlin, comedian. Quoted in Helen Buss Mitchell, Roots of Wisdom: Speaking the Language of Philosophy (Wadsworth 1996), p. 288.

[BenG]

The innocent and the beautiful
Have no enemy but time;

--William Butler Yeats, In Memory Of Eva Gore-Booth And Con Markiewicz

[WT Sharpe]

Ah, but what a methodological, patient, and persistent enemy!

[WT Sharpe]

.....Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction.
.....Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
..........— Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900 – 1944), French novelist, poet, and aviator. Terre des Hommes [Wind, Sand and Stars] (1939).

[gmw]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction.
.....Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
..........— Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900 – 1944), French novelist, poet, and aviator. Terre des Hommes [Wind, Sand and Stars] (1939).

I do like that one. Thanks.

[WT Sharpe]

.....[W]e are increasing the sophistication of deception faster than the technology of verification.
..........— Alvin Toffler (1928 - ), American writer, futurist. The Futurists (1972). Quoted in The Great Thoughts by George Seldes (1985, Introduction and a new compilation © 1996 by David Laskin).


.....The consequence of that is the end of truth. The dark side of the information technology explosion is that it will breed a population that believes nothing and, perhaps even more dangerous, a population ready to believe only one "truth" fanatically and willing to kill for it.
..........— Ibid.
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[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....[W]e are increasing the sophistication of deception faster than the technology of verification.
color="#F6F6F6"]..........[/color]— Alvin Toffler (1928 - ), American writer, futurist. The Futurists (1972). Quoted in The Great Thoughts by George Seldes (1985, Introduction and a new compilation © 1996 by David Laskin).


.....The consequence of that is the end of truth. The dark side of the information technology explosion is that it will breed a population that believes nothing and, perhaps even more dangerous, a population ready to believe only one "truth" fanatically and willing to kill for it.
..........— Ibid.
.

So true, unfortunately...

[GeoffC]

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[TenaciousBadger]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction.
.....Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
..........— Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1900 – 1944), French novelist, poet, and aviator. Terre des Hommes [Wind, Sand and Stars] (1939).

On n'aime plus personne des qu'on aime.

--A la recherche du temps perdu (1918), Marcel Proust

Roughly translated as: One loves nobody once one loves/is in love. (my French is rusty)