Tuesday, January 19, 2010

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -Christopher Hitchens

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist (b. 1949)

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Many demolitions are actually renovations. -Jalaluddin Rumi, poet and mystic (1207-1273)

Many demolitions are actually renovations.
-Jalaluddin Rumi, poet and mystic (1207-1273)

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier, and simpler. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier, and simpler. -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

Friday, January 1, 2010

When love is not madness, it is not love. -Pedro Calderon de la Barca

When love is not madness, it is not love. -Pedro Calderon de la Barca, poet and dramatist (1600-1681)

Friday, December 25, 2009

Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, re-arrange, and

Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, re-arrange, and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. -Banksy, street artist (b. 1974)

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it...

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. -Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (1737-1809)

Friday, November 20, 2009

A man's library is a sort of harem. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

A man's library is a sort of harem.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)