perspectives (of understanding (our world))

OSCAR WILDE:

It is sad. One half of the world does not believe in God, and the other half does not believe in me.

JAMES RICHARDSON:

Even at the movies, we laugh together, we weep alone.

GEORG LICHTENBERG:

Something witty can be said against anything and for anything. A witty man could, of course, say something against this assertion that would perhaps make me regret it.

HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL:

Those who feel little coherence in themselves talk about the adherence to ideas, but ideas are nothing to which one can adhere; they are something transcendent which reveals itself to us in sublime moments and then vanishes again.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN ZETTEL:

The language-game that we teach him then is: "It looks to me..., it looks to you..." In the first language-game a person does not occur as perceiving subject.

FRANZ KAFKA:

This is the trichotomy of free will, but since it is simultaneous it is also a unity, an integer, and fundamentally is so completely integral that it has no room for any will, free or unfree.

GEORGE CARLIN:

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.

FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD:

When our merit declines, our taste declines also.

WILLIAM MARKIEWICZ:

The fact that the birds sit on their eggs proves how little importance nature gives to the value of time.

ME:

Society is a way of keeping everyone on busy and out of trouble

A RANDOM QUOTE I:

Ah! yes, it's only when the day is over that the day really begins...

W.N.P. Barbellion
The Journal of a Disappointed Man (1919) October 15, 1914

A RANDOM QUOTE II:

... and because he was not a consistent philosopher, he had several explanations for this.

Cees Nooteboom
Rituals (1980) 8

A RANDOM QUOTE III:

Dad... does not believe human beings are built to deal constructively with free time.

Douglas Coupland
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) 143

DON PATERSON:

In the end, the desolate age always turns instinctively to Classicism, which if nothing else legislates against certain kinds of disappointment.

STANISLAW LEC:

Many a boomerang does not return but chooses freedom instead.

JAMES GUIDA:

There are no edges or grooves on the man's face, nothing at all on which to hook a gaze.