Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Pleasure & Piety

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"All models are wrong, but some are useful."

- George Box

"Life is wasted on the living."

- Douglas Adams

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

- Bertrand Russell

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

- Dorothy Parker

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."

- Immanuel Kant

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"Assuming that one estimated the value of a piece of music according to how much of it could be counted, calculated, and expressed in formulas: how absurd would such a 'scientific' estimation of music be!"

- Nietzsche

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

"If you possess a thousand contradictory aphorisms, you have knowledge. If you know when to apply each one, you have wisdom."

- m

"The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason. To such a man the world tends to become definite, finite, obvious; common objects rouse no questions, and unfamiliar possibilities are contemptuously rejected. As soon as we begin to philosophize, we find, that even the most everyday things lead to problems to which only very incomplete answers can be given."

- Bertrand Russell

"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."

- Clarence Darrow

"Know thyself."

- Plato

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

- Epictetus

"All cruelty springs from weakness"

- Seneca

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

- Albert Einstein

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

- Voltaire

"Be the change that you want to see in the world."

- Mohandas Gandhi

“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence”

- David Hume

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

- Pablo Picasso

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."

- Albert Einstein

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Pleasure & Piety

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