And so, once again,we come to this month’s collection of recently encountereed quotes.
If you want to know who rules over you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
[George Orwell]
Not everyone can stand the strain of gazing down too long into the personal crater, with its scene of Hieronymus Bosch activities taking place in the depths.
[Anthony Powell]
The rise of this blusterous man bewilders the educated among us, conjoins opposing politicians, agonizes our international allies, threatens minorities, spits on the disabled, and touches the hearts of those who just don’t know any better. Let’s stop propounding how mad this all is, and instead, do something.
[Liselotte Hübner, Germany, 1929]
Thou with strange adultery
Doest in each breast a brothel keep;
Awake, all men do lust for thee,
And some enjoy thee when they sleep.
[Abraham Cowley; The Innocent III]
Now all my days are trances
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy grey eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams –
In what ethereal dances
By what eternal streams.
[Edgar Allan Poe; To One in Paradise]
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
[Rudyard Kipling]
Just two naked apes who have decided to keep each other company for the (geologically speaking) blink of an eye on a tiny spinning planet on the outer arm of a nondescript galaxy in a vast, and basically pointless, universe. Now that we’ve identified that, we may as well just enjoy ourselves.
[https://substack.com/home/post/p-175517959]
It’s better to look at someone you can’t sleep with, than to sleep with someone you can’t even look at.
[Chinese proverb]
No Buddhist, No Christian, No Hindu, No Muslim …
Deeply spiritual people have no religion.
They belong to no temple, mosque, or church.
Their only religion is the goodness of the heart.
[unknown]
An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
[Niels Bohr, Physicist (1885-1962)]
My land is bare of chattering folk;
The clouds are low along the ridges,
and sweet’s the air with curly smoke
from all my burning bridges.
[Dorothy Parker]
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotional1y.
[Eleanor Roosevelt]
Systems fail when people with ability don’t have authority and people with authority don’t have ability.
[Amit Kalantri]