Two Thoughts (4 - 10 May)
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“Provocative thoughts from deep thinkers in a beautiful layout. I loved this book.”
– Tobias Carlisle
Sunday, 4 May
Two thoughts from Thomas Szasz
“In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.”
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
Monday, 5 May
Two thoughts from Rebecca Solnit
“Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.”
“Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.”
Tuesday, 6 May
Two thoughts from Søren Kierkegaard
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
“Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.”
Wednesday, 7 May
Two thoughts from Francis Bacon
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
Thursday, 8 May
Two thoughts from Charles Sanders Peirce
“Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.”
"It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague."
Friday, 9 May
Two thoughts from Samuel Goldwyn
“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.”
“Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.”
Saturday, 10 May
Two thoughts from Ambrose Bierce
"To the eye of failure success is an accident."
“Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.”
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dear jim,
lots of great quotes this week! some of my faves:
Rebecca Solnit:
“Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.”
Thomas Szasz:
“In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.”
Søren Kierkegaard:
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
“Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.”
Francis Bacon:
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
Charles Sanders Peirce:
"It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague."
Samuel Goldwyn:
“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.”
Ambrose Bierce:
"To the eye of failure success is an accident."
“Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.”
thank you for sharing as always!
love
myq