“I’m always angry. It’s my raison d’etre. Ask anybody. Grumble, grumble.” Artie, Warehouse 13.
Quotes
Maladjusted = Healthy?
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” — Krishnamurti
Universe ≠ Logical
“If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.” — Vannevar Bush (engineer, inventor, science administrator 1890-1974)
Mind your own business.
“Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own buisness, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.” — William S. Burroughs (novelist, poet, essayist 1914-1997)
Why today’s retailers sell crap, from a 19th Century critic.
“There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey.” — John Ruskin (Writer, Critic 1819-1900)
Creative Reading
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson (essayist, poet 1803-1882)
Ultimate Logic Statement: Despair = Love → Peace
“Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.” — Blaise Cendrars (poet/novelist 1887-1961)
Constitutional Nuts
“There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.”
— Kurt Vonnegut (novelist 1922-2007)