It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
-Jonathan Swift
Category Archives: Philosophy
This
Nothing exists.
– Zeno of Elea
Equanimity
When the fox gnaws, smile.
– Provenance: Robert Heinlein or ancient Sparta
Dead of arid words
I caught this insight on the way and quickly seized the rather poor words that were closest to hand to pin it down lest it fly away again. And now it has died of these arid words and shakes and flaps in them – and I hardly know any more when I look at it how I could ever have felt so happy when I caught this bird.
– Nietzsche
Quotable quotes three-pack
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
–Montaigne
“And because we know so little, the poor in spirit please us heartily, particularly when they are young females.”
–Nietzsche
“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.”
– unknown
What it is to be ruled
“To be ruled is to be kept an eye on, inspected, spied on, regulated, indoctrinated, sermonized, listed and checked off, estimated, appraised, censured, ordered about … To be ruled is at every operation, transaction, movement, to be noted, registered, counted, priced, admonished, prevented, reformed, redressed, corrected.”
– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Beware banality
“Beware the banality of a busy life.”
-Socrates
(This sounds a little too neat to be something Socrates actually said, but the Happy-Kid-raising Mother said so, so I’m running with it. Also, I’ve always liked the word “banal.”)
What you said you’d do
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
– Ernest Hemingway
What you said you'd do
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
– Ernest Hemingway
Talking about a particularly beautiful sunset
“Wow. Imagine what God could have done if he’d had money.”
– Roger Miller
Spotted at Nashville Or Bust.