The dead govern the living.
~ Auguste Comte
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Monthly Archives: January 2024
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Anthropologically, money should be defined as a semantic system, broadly similar to language; writing, or weights and measures. These systems differ mainly in the purposes served and the signs employed. Language and writing serve the purpose of the communication of ideas, weights and measures that of quantitative physical relationship. As to signs, language uses oral sounds; writing employs ideograms or visual characters; weights and measures, on the other hand, use physical objects as the basis of symbols.
― Karl Polanyi
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The years teach much which the days never know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Carmen Lynch was born
on this day in 1972
Carmen Michelle Lynch — the American stand-up comedian — was born on this day — January 17, 1972 — in California.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
~ T.S. Eliot
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You can hope for lucky encounters only if you walk around a lot.
~ A. J. Liebling
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England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.
~ George Santayana
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What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
~ Jonathan Swift
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We ought to remember that religion uses language in quite a different way from science. The language of religion is more closely related to the language of poetry than to the language of science.
~ Niels Bohr
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