That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the zenith above me and the drop of distance below, I listened to the mountain silence until I could hear as far into it as the faintest clink of a cowbell. In the mountains, what might … Continue reading Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
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Quote for Today: Steven Pinker
Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You can’t leak your hidden intentions if you don’t think they are your intentions. According to his theory of self-deception, the conscious mind sometimes hides the … Continue reading Quote for Today: Steven Pinker
Quote for Today: Edgar Degas
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people. ― Edgar Degas Edgar Degas, Four Dancers, 1899
Quote for Today: Lois McMaster Bujold
It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for. --Lois McMaster Bujold, Cordelia's Honor Public Domain Image via PxHere
Quote for Today: James McBride
It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets. ―James McBride, The … Continue reading Quote for Today: James McBride
Quote for Today: Bryant H. McGill
If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you. --Bryant H. McGill
Quote for Today: H.P. Lovecraft
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and … Continue reading Quote for Today: H.P. Lovecraft
Quote for Today: Augustine of Hippo
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? -Augustine of Hippo Public Domain Image: Buddhabrot via Wikipedia
Quote for Today: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit … Continue reading Quote for Today: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Quote for Today: Craig D. Lounsbrough
I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the very places where society mistakenly says life stores its scraps. And I am constantly amazed that in the treasure trove that surrounds me, I stand in the company of so few. ―Craig D. Lounsbrough Public Domain Image via Max Pixel