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Robert James Bidinotto Robert James Bidinotto
US Navy Billboard
Samuel Adams
When we estimate magnitudes through numbers, that is, conceptually, the imagination selects a unit, which it can then repeat indefinitely. But there is a second kind of estimation, which Kant calls "aesthetic estimation," in which the imagination tries to comprehend or encompass the whole representation in one single intuition. There is an upper bound to its capacity. An object whose apparent or conceived size strains this capacity to the limit - threatens to exceed the imagination's power to take it all in at once - has, subjectively speaking, an absolute magnitude: it reaches the felt limit, and appears as if infinite.[...] imagination reaches its maximum capacity, shows its failure and inadequacy when compared to the demands of Reason, and makes us aware, by contrast, of the maginificence of Reason iteslf. The resulting feeling is the feeling of the sublime. Monroe C. Beardsley Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use. Joseph Stalin
Robert Silensky
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin quoted by Maxim Gorky (about Beethoven)
The simple fact is, there are people out there who are nothing more than a bipedal cheeseburger. They're a self propelled snack pack looking for someone to eat them. There is no helping the truly consumable among us. Ken Cook http://www.selfdefenseforums.com/forums/member.php?find=lastposter&t=8723
Thomas Edison
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac, 1738
I know that many will call this useless work; and they will be those of whom Demetrius declared that he took no more account of the wind that came out their mouth in words, than of that they expelled from their lower parts: men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that wisdom, which is the food and the only true riches of the mind. For so much more worthy as the soul is than the body, so much more noble are the possessions of the soul than those of the body. And often, when I see one of these men take this work in his hand, I wonder that he does not put it to his nose, like a monkey, or ask me if it something good to eat. Da Vinci Leonardo
"The Lord works in mysterious ways." Kallin Waukesha (Wisconsin) County supervisor Andrew Kallin after a shooting rampage at a local church left seven dead.
Robert Ingersoll
John Lennon Happy St. Patricks Day
Michelangelo
Truly this world is unfair, as it so obviously favors those who are well-groomed and of pleasant demeanor! Kyle Baker Plastic Man 15, May, 2005
Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game
Thomas Paine
Barbara Branden On Writing forum thread - Post 7
"Now I answer you, I answer you on behalf of myself, and my countrymen. I dont care what your news tells you, what your television and newspapers say, this is how we feel. Despite all that has happened. Despite all the hurt, the pain, blood, sweat and tears. These two years have given us hope we never had." Husayn Uthman http://www.coxandforkum.com/
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. Johann Sebastian Bach
Confucius
If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than through our strength La Rochefoucauld Maxims
La Rochefoucauld Maxims
Confucius http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/14176.html
Jane Austen Lizzy to Lady Catherine in _Pride and Prejudice_
You see you can't please ev'ryone so you got to please yourself. Ricky Nelson Garden Party
Dante Alighieri
Christopher Shays, Republican Congressman N.Y. Times
Nikola Tesla Upon inventing the AC induction motor, February 1882
William Blake
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac, 1746
Ansel Adams
I was never opposed to the draft Noam Chomsky http://blog.zmag.org/index.php/weblog/entry/the_draft/
When reason preaches, if you won't hear her she'll box your ears. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac, 1753
Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Fools multiply folly. Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac
It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity. Albert Einstein http://www.loveisearned.com/html/quotations.htm
How can a rational being be ennobled by anything that is not obtained by its own exertions? Mary Wollstonecraft Frank, Leonard Roy. Freedom. New York: Random House, 2003.
All change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves. A. J. P. Taylor Frank, Leonard Roy. Freedom. New York: Random House, 2003.
Kahil Gibran
Rodney Carrington Morning Wood
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, the gnomed mine. John Keats Lamia
Barbara Branden Another web site
Friedrich Nietzsche
I love iconoclastic thinking. I love to be intellectually provoked, to have to rethink my assumptions on almost anything. One either strengthens old convictions, by seeing them survive attack, or modifies old convictions and 'grows.' Joseph H. Friedman, M.D.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust
Vincent Van Gogh
Kevin Costner Crash (Kevin Costner) from Bull Durham
The Doctor The End of the World (Doctor Who, Season 27, Episode 2)
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