Quote of the Day

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
:: William James

Thought for the Day

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
:: Stephen Hawking

Quote of the Day

If you want something done, ask a busy person.
:: Ben Franklin

Quote of the Day

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
:: Albert Einstein

Cold Mountain

How pleasant were our bodies in the days of Chaos,
needing neither to eat or piss!
Who came along with his drill
and bored us full of these nine holes?
Morning after morning we must dress and eat,
year after year fret over taxes.
A thousand of us scrambling for a penny,
we knock our heads together and yell for dear life.
:: Han-Shan

True, true.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
:: Plato

Prospect

Among orange-tile rooftops
and chimney pots
the fen fog slips,
gray as rats,

while on spotted branch
of the sycamore
two black rooks hunch
and darkly glare,

watching for night,
with absinthe eye
cocked on the lone, late,
passer-by.

:: Sylvia Plath

A Word to the Wise

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
Who is powerful? He that governs his passions.
Who is rich? He that is content.
Who is that? Nobody.
:: Benjamin Franklin

Quote of the Day

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
:: William James

Words of Wisdom

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain
And simple to express:
Err
And err
And err again
But less
And less
And less.
:: Piet Hein

Quote of the Day

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
:: William James

Quote of the Day

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
:: George Santayana

Quote of the Day

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
:: Plato

Quote of the Day

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean.
:: Mark Twain

Quote of the Day

If language is lucid, that is enough.
:: Confucius

Tao Teh Ching

One on tip-toe cannot stand.
One astride cannot walk.
One who displays himself does not shine.
One who justifies himself has no glory.
One who boasts of his own ability has no merit.
One who parades his own success will not endure.
In Tao these things are called "unwanted food and extraneous growths,"
Which are loathed by all things.
Hence, a man of Tao does not set his heart upon them.
:: Lao Tzu

Thought for the Day

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks