Abstract Happy

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

--Arthur Schopenhauer

No Meaning

Life may have no meaning. Even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

--Blaidd Drwg

The Laws of Morning

Whoever carries into the afternoon the laws of morning must pay for it with damage to his soul.

--Carl G. Jung

Two Things

There are two things that are important in politics. The first thing is money and I can't remember what the second one is.

--Mark Hanna (William McKinley's 1896 campaign manager)

Real Glory

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

--Joseph P. Thompson

Not Binary

This is not a binary choice. We are not living or dying; we are living and dying.

--Susan Madrak

Nobody Fixes

Nobody fixes problems they deny they have.

--Marshall Goldsmith

Contradictory

Credit is by definition a contradictory creature. It depends on trust and confidence and yet invites the possibility of fraud or, at the very least, grave disappointment.

--Stephen Mihm

Only Love

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

--Martin Luther King Jr.

God's Standards

What we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than trying to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family.

--Mike Huckabee

Distrust

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.

--Tennessee Williams

Wholesale, Not Retail

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

--William James

Limited in Time and Space

A human being is part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

--Albert Einstein

More Christian, Less Likely

Indeed, it seems to me that the more Christian a country is the less likely it is to regard the death penalty as immoral.

--Justice Antonin Scalia

True Mystery

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

--Oscar Wilde

Tools

Most folks have figured out what a blog is--a publishing tool, in the same way that a hammer is a home-building tool--and what it isn't--some radically different communication form. It doesn't matter who's using the tool. It's what they build with it.

--Peter Kafka

Real Change

Only a crisis--actual or perceived--produces real change.

--Milton Friedman

Drift Away

Sorry to drift away from the main topic, but it's almost always about money. And when it's not about money, it's about religion.

--Kgsbca

Emotion to Reason

Emotion has taught mankind to reason.

--Marquis de Vauvenargues

The Subject of Cheese

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

--G.K. Chesterton

Loyalty

Our loyalties are to the species and to the planet. We speak for earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos ancient and vast from which we spring.

--Carl Sagan

The Great Difficulty

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

--Alexander Hamilton