The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society – both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug.
~ Antonio Gramsci
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Critical philosophy implies above all historical criticism. It dissolves the rigid, unhistorical, natural appearance of social institutions; it reveals their historical origins.
~ György Lukács
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The concept of original sin gives us a penetrating insight into human destiny.
~ Leszek Kołakowski
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Scale will get you strategy.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards.
~ Dean Acheson
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We have too many unnecessary things everywhere. I would describe this as inhumane.
~ Dieter Rams
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
~ Dashiell Hammett
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A niche is created by the intersection of resource constraints— an abstract resource space consisting of a unique combination of resources that could permit a form to survive there. Forms thus either take advantage of a niche resource space or fail.
~ Howard E. Aldrich
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