It would be better for men to be few and live far apart, where none could infect another; then slowly the sanity of field and mountain and the cold ocean and glittering stars might enter their minds.” Robinson Jeffers John… Read More ›
man
Affected
Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them. Epictetus (55 AD – 135 AD) Just had to use this from the Wikipedia entry about our slave/philospher and his affect on the world: Prisoner of… Read More ›
Progress
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
War
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is… Read More ›
Stories and Quotes from the Mind* and Keyboard of A.A.Forringer 