Weirdo by R WAug 18, 202012:27 pmAugust 18, 2020 History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past. —John Berger
Weirdo by R WJul 30, 202010:00 amJuly 30, 2020 I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. ―sociologist Charles Horton Cooley
Weirdo by R WJul 16, 202011:23 amJuly 17, 2020 The gods did not reveal all things to us, from the beginning; but over time, through seeking, men find that which is the better. —Xenophanes
Weirdo by R WJul 5, 20209:35 amJuly 17, 2020 Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. —Jorge Luis Borges
Weirdo by R WJun 19, 20209:22 amJuly 17, 2020 The success of the masterpieces seems to lie not so much in their freedom from faults—indeed we tolerate the grossest errors in them all—but in the immense persuasiveness of a mind which has completely mastered its perspective. —Virginia Woolf
Weirdo by R WJun 2, 202011:43 amJuly 17, 2020 It is maddening that the only way we can preserve the human spirit is through periodic sacrifices on the bloodstained altar of economic crisis. —Yanis Varoufakis, “Talking to My Daughter About the Economy”
Weirdo by R WMay 21, 202010:17 amJuly 17, 2020 Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. It is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. —Akira Kurosawa
Weirdo by R WApr 28, 20209:33 amApril 27, 2020 Progress was a labyrinth … people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it. —F. Scott Fitzgerald
Weirdo by R WApr 13, 202010:34 amApril 9, 2020 Sweet are the uses of adversity/ Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous/ Wears yet a precious jewel in his head/ And this our life, exempt from public haunt/ Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks/ Sermons in stones, and good in everything. —Shakespeare, As You Like It
