When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be with you in the future as well.
~ William Gibson
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Remember this— that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Der Beruf folgt so wenig aus der Wissenschaft, dass sie ihn sogar ausschließen kann. Denn die Wissenschaft duldet ihrem Wesen nach keine Lösung von sich.
― Walter Benjamin
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People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.
~ Walter Bagehot
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We see in order to move; we move in order to see.
~ William Gibson
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A religion may be discerned in capitalism—that is to say, capitalism serves essentially to allay the same anxieties, torments, and disturbances to which the so-called religions offered answers.
― Walter Benjamin
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Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Practical people have little idea of the practical ability required to write a large book, and especially a large history.
~ Walter Bagehot
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Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug.
~ William Gibson
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