Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 5 " Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. " ― John Lennon Triggered by recent events.  In essence, life doesn't adhere to our carefully crafted blueprints; it unfolds in its own mysterious and unpredictable manner. Source: The Socratic Mind

Quote of the Week 4 " Time exists so that everything doesn’t happen at once.    Space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you ." ― Susan Sontag   Triggered by Robert's reference to the quote .  Consult  Quote Investigator for origin and history of the quote that Susan Sontag made popular. Related quote of week 8/23 wrt space & time: "Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time." ―  Jean-Michel Basquiat

Quote of the Week 3 " Happiness is continuing to desire what you already possess. " ―   Friedrich Nietzsche Triggered by the use of a variant of the quote in the movie " The Taste of Things ": "Le bonheur, c’est de continuer à désirer ce que l’on a déjà." " Glück ist, weiter das zu begehren, was man bereits hat. " "Happiness is continuing to desire what we already have."

2nd Quote of the Week 2 " Live without pretending,   Love without depending,   Listen without defending,   Speak without offending." ― Drake See also: Quotefancy  

Quote of the Week 2 "The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions." ― Karl Marx   " Die Forderung, die Illusionen über seinen Zustand aufzugeben, ist die Forderung, einen Zustand aufzugeben, der der Illusionen bedarf . " ― Karl Marx   Triggered by reading up on " Religion is opium of / for the people ". From his 1843 Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering.  Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.  It is the opium of the people.  The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.  To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. ___ Da

Quote of the Year 2023* " Objective truths are established by evidence. Personal truths by faith. Political truths by incessant repetition." ―  Neil deGrasse Tyson   [ CW 5 ] Runner-up "W e do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy . " ― The Programmers' Credo  [ CW 1 ] * as measured by LinkedIn impressions.

Quote of the Week 1 " The whole universe is in a glass of wine. " ―   Attributed to   Lorenzo Magalotti   (famously cited by Richard Feynman ) Triggered by a recent tweet . "The whole universe is in a glass of wine" by Richard Feynman ✍️ A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine… pic.twitter.com/XQQ0FrwNes — Physics In History (@PhysInHistory) December 3, 2023