A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

- William James



A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right


- Thomas Paine




Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

- Konrad Lorenz



Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

- Robert Graves



I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

- Winston Churchill

I wouldn't mind dying -- it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

- R. Geis


The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

"Heart of Darkness"
- Joseph Conrad



You would not find out the boundaries of the soul, even by travelling along every path: so deep a measure does it have.

- Heraclitus "Fragment 45"

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

-- Elayne Boosler

(Thanks to Benjamin Filippone)



What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.

-- Epictetus

(Thanks to Benjamin Filippone)

I am what I think YOU think I am.

-- some sociology book

(Thanks to Benjamin Filippone)




"La personalità è la felicità più alta"
(Personality is the greatest happiness)

- Schopehauer quoting Goethe
[Thanks Francesca Placidi]



"It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our
eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy.
Oh yes, ecstacy, I welcome thee!"

- (Chris from the television show "Northern Exposure")



A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

- email joke



If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer,
I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.

- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy



Nov 30, 1999

A man said to the universe
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."

- Stephen Crane 1899

"Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion
instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours."


- Steppenwolf [Hermann Hesse]