Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economistweaselfraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it more or less worthless as a measure of inflation. The Boskin Commission. . . was an act of cowardice. Rather than man up and say fix this, its broken, we can't afford it.
At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat.
There is no permanent place in this universe for evil. . . Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.
In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.
Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions.
You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?
Most "process" philosophy is historicist (e. g. , Hegel) and not concerned with "deep time. " Maybe Whitehead is an exception. He may be a really important philosopher for all I know. I've never been able to read him.
If my dog wants to know why I didn't feed him this morning, he may want to rethink walking out of the room when I'm telling him a joke.
I don't understand the mechanics behind things, so a site that I find impressive may not really be more technologically advanced than something which is ostensibly uninteresting.
The gift our enemy may be able to bring us: to see aspects of ourselves that we cannot discover any other way than through our enemies. Our friends seldom tell us these things; they are our friends precisely because they are able to overlook or ignore this part of us. The enemy is thus not merely a hurdle to be leaped on the way to God. The enemy can be the way to God. We cannot come to terms with our shadow except through our enemies.
ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.
Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.
. . . we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.
There may be times in a girl's life when it's better to be boyless, but there's no need to be joyless. Or toyless.
Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.
The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.
Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.