An Unenviable Situation

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Posted by D. Ghirlandaio at 2/19/2013 02:12:00 AM
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"I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty."
George Santayana

Ernst Kantorowicz: “Looking at the stars, I feel my own futility.”
Erwin Panofsky: “All I feel is the futility of the stars.”

"I shall make a poem out of [about] nothing at all:
It will not speak of me or others,
Of love or youth, or of anything else,
For it was composed while I was asleep
Riding on horseback."
William IX of Aquitaine

“Fact, value! Value, fact! Fact, value! Value, fact! FACT, VALUE! VALUE, FACT!”
Piero Sraffa

"Irony is the glory of slaves."
Czeslaw Milosz

“It is painful to note that we find similar errors in two opposed schools: the bourgeois school and the socialist school. ‘Moralize! Moralize!’ cry both with missionary fervor.”
Baudelaire

"Why be a man when you can be a success."
Bertolt Brecht

"What is the good of philosophy if it does not make me a better human being?”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Every one knows every one else far too well for business purposes."
Rudyard Kipling

"I have come to the end. It is for others to judge"
Desiderius Erasmus


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