Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity.
~ Charles MacKay
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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The grapes in Uzbekistan are incredible fruit. They seem to have a life of their own. They’re called “the bridesmaid’s little finger,” and that’s about the size of them. They’re very long, and green, and they’re absolutely the most delicious.
~ Audre Lorde
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Most ancient pagan belief systems were built around ritual and magic, coercive practices intended to achieve a beneficial result. They centered the self. The revolutionary contribution of monotheism was its insistence that the principal concern of God is, instead, how people treat one another.
~ David Wolpe via The Atlantic
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Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
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This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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La difficulté d’écrire l’anglais m’est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l’on pouvait toujours écrire cette belle langue de France!
~ Charles Dickens
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Good design is consistent in every detail.
~ Dieter Rams
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The world’s leaders are correctly fixated on economic growth as the answer to virtually all problems, but they’re pushing it with all their might in the wrong direction.
~ Donella Meadows
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