perspectives (of understanding (our world))

OSCAR WILDE:

PRINCE PAUL : ... You want a new excitement, Prince. Let me see—you have been married twice already suppose you try— falling in love for once.

JAMES RICHARDSON:

Easy to criticize yourself, harder to agree with the criticism.

GEORG LICHTENBERG:

Through desultory wanderings on the desultory expeditions of the imagination we quite often put up game which purposeful philosophy can make use of in its well-ordered household.

HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL:

At the beginning of life we are most subjective and least understand subjectivity in others.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN ZETTEL:

And here one would like to say: "But then, is it imaginable? Of course, the behaviour is! But is the inner process, the experience of colour?" And it is difficult to see what to say in answer to such a question. Could people without absolute pitch have guessed at the existence of people with absolute pitch?

FRANZ KAFKA:

Letting the head that is filled with disgust and hate droop on the breast.

GEORGE CARLIN:

When you rub your eyes real hard do you see that checkerboard pattern? What is that?

FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD:

There is a certain lively gratitude which not only releases us from benefits received, but which also, by making a return to our friends as payment, renders them indebted to us.

WILLIAM MARKIEWICZ:

The river bed remains even when the river is gone. A time bed is similarly carved in our memory. Consequently, we measure time by looking backwards.

ME:

Doesn't excluding all of academic writing, simplify your task immensely.
Duh! Yes!

A RANDOM QUOTE I:

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

James W. Loewen
Lies My Teacher Told Me (1995) xii

A RANDOM QUOTE II:

in the sky, a moon;
on your face, a mouth.
in the sky, many stars;
on your face, only two eyes

(unknown)
Otomi Indian Poem

A RANDOM QUOTE III:

There is ... a bingeing on purity, on going one better, on sacrifice... The parody of intoxication.

Jean Baudrillard
Cool Memories V: 2000-2004 (2005) 2

DON PATERSON:

W. miscalculated. He thought he was overexposed, and would be valued for his rare appearances. Within a year they had forgotten him.

STANISLAW LEC:

Clowns always sat at the foot of the throne. That's why they were the first to see it shake.

JAMES GUIDA:

How often we lack the full honesty of our tastes when introducing them to others. A pox on prefacing!