Bill Nye

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

7 February 2010 | 14:39 | No Comments


J B S Haldane

It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.

6 February 2010 | 7:31 | No Comments


H L Mencken

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

5 February 2010 | 22:53 | No Comments


Thomas Merton

The biggest human temptation is … to settle for too little.

4 February 2010 | 23:18 | No Comments


Brian O’Nolan

“You told me what the first rule of wisdom is,” I said. “What is the second rule?”
“That can be answered,” he said. “There are five in all. Always ask any questions that are to be asked and never answer any. Turn everything you hear to your own advantage. Always carry a repair outfit. Take left turns as much as possible. Never apply your front brake first…If you follow them,” said the Sergeant, “you will save your soul and you will never get a fall on a slippy road.”

30 January 2010 | 17:39 | No Comments


Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

24 January 2010 | 20:01 | No Comments