It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.
-- Carveth Read
#GoblinValley
Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
-- Ludwig Borne
Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertGreenIngersoll #Happiness #Suffering
It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
-- Blaise Pascal
The glue that binds an immensely diverse people cannot be a common blood or unifying religion, but must instead be a shared idea, a secular religion (from the Latin for "tying together") that supplies us with a common sense of our responsibilities to one another.
-- John Schwarz (Illusions of Opportunity)
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
-- Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
-- Scottish Proverb
The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
-- Sherwood Anderson
The mind commands the body and the body obeys. The mind commands itself and finds resistance.
-- Saint Augustine
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
-- Douglas Adams
Motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all, and shrink them for only a few.
-- Ivan Illich
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
-- Baruch Spinoza
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BaruchSpinoza #Beauty #Confusion #Nature #Order
There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
-- Ian McDonald
I contend that the purpose of computers is human freedom.
-- Ted Nelson
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
A view of Factory Butte from Goblin Valley State Park.
#Utah #Hanksville #GoblinValley #FactoryButte #RedRocks #Desert #Nature #Outdoor #Photography #SonyAlpha #SonyA6400 #A6400
#Utah #Hanksville #GoblinValley #FactoryButte #RedRocks #Desert #Nature #Outdoor #Photography #SonyAlpha #SonyA6400 #A6400
The way to fight back is to function
-- Karim Wasfi (Conductor, Iraqi National Symphony)
It is much easier to apologize than to get permission.
-- Grace Hopper (commenting on surviving in a bureaucracy)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GraceHopper #Action #Bureaucracy #Permission
My personal plan has been not to act. I let such annoyances die with me and my machine.
-- Bruce Rathe (comment on junk email and chain letters)
The melting pot is a failed paradigm -- maybe more like a tossed salad. I am an international crouton.
-- Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty)
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