The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
The wisdom of the wise. the experience of the ages, are perpetuated by quotations.
Disraeli
This is Volume 8 of Golden Moments, the condensed wisdom and folly of humankind from around the world and over the centuries. There are many illustrations among the 100 quotations, and a few funny fillers to give your brain a rest.
Each golden moment is an essence, a completeness, and great brain food. Read them in order if you like, or go Zen---quickly look at the possibilities and pick what grabs you. The interconnections emerge organically.
I’ve carefully mined these golden moments over my long life. If your judgment, taste, sense of humor, and belief systems are similar to mine you will love them. If not, read them anyway and expand what you can think, feel, become. I’m a cynical, free speech libertarian who laughs a lot and is a little crazy.
Old Man and a Young Woman wish to remain anonymous: He has lived a full life and tried hard to be honest and open-minded. Sometimes he succeeded. He’s not much for political correctness, or the warm, self-righteous comfort of a Noble Cause. Too many Noble Lies. She is a super-smart, foul-mouthed brat and a student at UC Berkeley majoring in philosophy and psychology. She says what she thinks and couldn’t care less if that bothers you.
1 If you ask my view, even if it’s not your view, you have to handle that. Don’t tell me I hurt your feelings. I’m not your kindergarten teacher.
Sister Souljah
2 The word racism is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything, and demanding evidence makes you a racist.
Thomas Sowell
3 Perpetual offense is the oxygen of Identity Politics. Microaggressions are the new way to become aggrieved.
Old Man
4 Political correctness makes it impossible to discuss major problems honestly and constructively. I am so tired of the name calling and demonizing. Emotions govern. Data and logic irrelevant.
Old Man
5 I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent van Gogh
6 Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso
7 One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo Picasso
8 I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent van Gogh
9 The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
10 Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
11 Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
12 Contemplate the fire, contemplate the clouds, and when omens appear and the voices sound in your soul, abandon yourself to them without wondering whether convenient or good to do so. If you hesitate, you will spoil your being, your will die before your time.
For our God is Abraxas, and he is both God and Devil, and you will find him in the worlds of light and shadow.
Carl Jung
13 Our imagination and direct experience are alternatives to the scientific method for glimpsing the nature of Reality. Each provides valid information depending upon what you want to accomplish. If you want a bridge to hold up, the scientific method will give you the best chance of success. If you are making love, direct experience is likely to be more satisfying.
Old Man
14 A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
Joan Rivers
George Bernard Shaw
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
The wisdom of the wise. the experience of the ages, are perpetuated by quotations.
Disraeli
This is Volume 8 of Golden Moments, the condensed wisdom and folly of humankind from around the world and over the centuries. There are many illustrations among the 100 quotations, and a few funny fillers to give your brain a rest.
Each golden moment is an essence, a completeness, and great brain food. Read them in order if you like, or go Zen---quickly look at the possibilities and pick what grabs you. The interconnections emerge organically.
I’ve carefully mined these golden moments over my long life. If your judgment, taste, sense of humor, and belief systems are similar to mine you will love them. If not, read them anyway and expand what you can think, feel, become. I’m a cynical, free speech libertarian who laughs a lot and is a little crazy.
Old Man and a Young Woman wish to remain anonymous: He has lived a full life and tried hard to be honest and open-minded. Sometimes he succeeded. He’s not much for political correctness, or the warm, self-righteous comfort of a Noble Cause. Too many Noble Lies. She is a super-smart, foul-mouthed brat and a student at UC Berkeley majoring in philosophy and psychology. She says what she thinks and couldn’t care less if that bothers you.
1 If you ask my view, even if it’s not your view, you have to handle that. Don’t tell me I hurt your feelings. I’m not your kindergarten teacher.
Sister Souljah
2 The word racism is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything, and demanding evidence makes you a racist.
Thomas Sowell
3 Perpetual offense is the oxygen of Identity Politics. Microaggressions are the new way to become aggrieved.
Old Man
4 Political correctness makes it impossible to discuss major problems honestly and constructively. I am so tired of the name calling and demonizing. Emotions govern. Data and logic irrelevant.
Old Man
5 I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent van Gogh
6 Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso
7 One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo Picasso
8 I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent van Gogh
9 The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
10 Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
11 Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
12 Contemplate the fire, contemplate the clouds, and when omens appear and the voices sound in your soul, abandon yourself to them without wondering whether convenient or good to do so. If you hesitate, you will spoil your being, your will die before your time.
For our God is Abraxas, and he is both God and Devil, and you will find him in the worlds of light and shadow.
Carl Jung
13 Our imagination and direct experience are alternatives to the scientific method for glimpsing the nature of Reality. Each provides valid information depending upon what you want to accomplish. If you want a bridge to hold up, the scientific method will give you the best chance of success. If you are making love, direct experience is likely to be more satisfying.
Old Man
14 A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
Joan Rivers
