…and who the cap fit, let them wear it…
-Bob Marley, Who the cap fit
Meanings:
1. If a description applies to you, then accept it. If it describes you, it probably is you.
2. If something serves a purpose, then don’t dispose of it.
Equality is a slogan based on envy It…
Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: “Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.”
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy In America
As you simplify your life the laws of…
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
―Henry David Thoreau
The pot is a God The winnowing fan…
The pot is a God. The winnowing fan is a God. The stone in the street is a God. The comb is a God. The bowstring is also a God. The bushel is a God and the spouted cup is a God.
Gods, gods, there are so many there’s no place left for a foot. There is only one God. He is our Lord of the Meeting Rivers.
–Basava
Talk talk talk the utter and heartbreaking stupidity…
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
―William Faulkner, Mosquitoes