Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original shape.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
Category: General
The art of progress is to preserve order…
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
-Alfred North Whitehead
I have striven all my life not to…
I have striven all my life, not to hate human action, not to laugh at human action, not to weep at human action but to understand human action.
-Spinzoa
Fear not Life still Leaves human effort scope…
Fear not! Life still
Leaves human effort scope
But, since life teems with ill,
Nurse no extravagant hope
-Mathew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna
The difference between the right word and the…
The difference between the right word and the almost right word in a place is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
-MarkTwain