For the Victorians, everything was part of one thing - science, religion, philosophy, economics, politics, women, poetry. They didn't compartmentalise - they thought big - A.S. Byatt, quoted in New Statesman, 27/04/09
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism - Ralph Waldo Emerson
But enough of me. Let's talk about you. What do you think of me? - Ed Koch
"The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour." - Anon
A hopefully apocryphal - but probably not - anecdote has it that a first year history student at an American Ivy League university recently raised his hand and asked the professor: "If you're currently teaching us about the Second World War, that means there must have been a First World War, right?"
Now comes the suggestion that many of the younger generation have never heard of perhaps the most successful composer - in commercial terms - of all time.
The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope - Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
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At least until the transhumanist dream becomes a reality, which according to one leading modern philosopher may be never, we will cling on to whatever we can that reminds us of our loved ones.
Traveller, there is no path. Paths are made by walking - Antonio Machado
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever - Chinese proverb
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring - George Santayana