Two Thoughts (29 June - 5 July)
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Sunday, 29 June
Two thoughts from Thucydides
“So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.”
“The people made their recollections fit in with their sufferings.”
Monday, 30 June
Two thoughts from Pat Cadigan
"Be very careful how you talk to yourself. Because you are listening.”
“We’re looking for places that aren’t on a map. If we put them on one, then anybody could find them.”
Tuesday, 1 July
Two thoughts from Slavoj Žižek
“What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?”
“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”
Wednesday, 2 July
Two thoughts from John Maynard Keynes
“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”
“Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.”
Thursday, 3 July
Two thoughts from Derek Parfit
“We ought not to do to our future selves what it would be wrong to do to other people.”
“When we see the truth, we ought to change some of our beliefs about what we have reason to do.”
Friday, 4 July
Two thoughts from Bret Harte
"One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones."
"A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing."
Saturday, 5 July
Two thoughts from O. Henry
"Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside."
"It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are."
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Dear Jim,
Great quotes! Some of my faves from this batch:
Pat Cadigan:
"Be very careful how you talk to yourself. Because you are listening.”
Slavoj Žižek:
“What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?”
“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”
Thank you for sharing!
Love
Myq