My Small Boat

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

Of Covetyce
FREDOME, honour, and nobilnes,
Meid, manheid, mirth, and gentilnes
Ar now in cowrt reput as vyce,
And all for caus of cuvetice.
All weilfair, welth, and wantones
Ar chengit into wretchitnes,
And play is sett at littill price;
And all for caus of covetyce.
Halking, hunting, and swift hors rynning
Ar chengit all in wrangus wynnyng;
Thair is no play bot cartis and dyce;
And […]

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

When you want to test the depths of a stream, don’t use both feet.

In fact he cared for nothing but God, or rather he cared for everything because it belonged to God. […]

Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

The Ontological Argument - Proslogion Ch II
…since the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God? (Psalms xiv. 1). But, at any rate, this very fool, when he hears of this being of which I speak - a being than which nothing greater can be conceived - understands what he hears, and what […]

(on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague)
This isn’t right. This isn’t even wrong.

The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.