February 2012
6 posts
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left...”
– Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
“In all that happens keep before your eyes, those who experienced it before you,...”
– Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
“If you had a stepmother and a real mother, you would pay your respects to your...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Even if you’re going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that,...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“In a sense, people are out proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today...”
– Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
January 2012
1 post
3 tags
“It was probably what had made him rob the bank. Back home the idea probably...”
– The Dangerous Edge by Robert Daley
April 2011
8 posts
“It is the avowal of the unschooled man, that he finds a quality in him that is...”
– Heroism, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 tag
“Then someone with Catholic tendencies said, “His soul will burn forever, you...”
– A Fraction of the Whole, Stevie Toltz
1 tag
“You know who else used to get a rubbishing? Socrates. That’s right. Socrates....”
– A Fraction of the Whole, Stevie Toltz
1 tag
“I think that’s the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the...”
– A Fraction of the Whole, Stevie Toltz
1 tag
“Am I changing? Is a man’s character changeable? Imagine an immortal. Revolting...”
– A Fraction of the Whole, Stevie Toltz
1 tag
“I discovered more about the properties of loneliness, how it is like the slow...”
– A Fraction of the Whole, Stevie Toltz
1 tag
“You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you...”
– A Fraction of the Whole, Stevie Toltz
1 tag
“I concluded that my father had tried to erase any image of his brother so he...”
– A Fraction of the Whole, Stevie Toltz
November 2010
2 posts
“She’d been strong for a skinny-armed, thin-shanked woman, the way she...”
– James Meek, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent
“‘A country sends its travellers abroad like words spoken from one person...”
– James Meek, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent.
December 2009
1 post
“…you shall, in your counsel-giving unto his grace, ever tell him what he...”
– Sir Thomas More to Thomas Cromwell about Henry VIII
October 2009
2 posts
2 tags
“Six brilliantly trained critical thinkers sitting around a table cannot get...”
– De Bono’s Thinking Course - Edward De Bono
5 tags
“The rule which Machiavelli tacitly applies can be stated as follows: if a wise...”
– Thoughts on Machiavelli - Leo Strauss
September 2009
5 posts
2 tags
“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of...”
– Werner Heisenberg, as quoted in Science, Strategy and War by Frans Osigna
1 tag
“But sorrow is not merely the loss of something, it is not just the feeling of...”
– Think on These Things, Jiddu Krishnamurthy
“Monchrome india ink wash painting, or suibokuga, was imported to Japan from...”
– The Lone Samurai, the Life of Miyamoto Musashi - William Scott Wilson
2 tags
“Our present education consists in telling us what to think, it does not teach us...”
– Think on these things, Jiddu Krishnamurthy
“The real function of education is not to turn you out to be a clerk, or a judge,...”
– Think on these things, Jiddu Krishnamurthy