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I am an incurable poster of quotations. Quotations of all kinds and from all sorts of people and from all eras. It is my way of continuing to involve ourselves in a sort ahistorical literary discourse. It is my diehard conviction that what is relevant and insightful and profound can be said by anyone at any time in just a few words—pithy and sometimes even amusing aphorisms that can slap us in the face like a moment of Zen awakening. Brevity is indeed the soul of wit. The more you can say with less, the better you can communicate new truths and new ways of seeing the world. OTOH, if it takes long paragraphs to say something important, maybe in the end it’s not so important. Maybe you just need to be heard or read instead of being an invisible conduit for enlightenment.

"Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground and the other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals."---Francois Rabelais

“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.” – Augustine of Hippo

"Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance."----Bertrand Russell

"Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.

Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads."---- Mary Oliver

"The more AI slop on the internet, the more AI is feeding on it's own waste. This has caused a visible drop in accuracy and information quality as slop magnifies slop. AI is going to feed on it's own waste products until it flops over and expires."----Cliff Hesby

“Just be, right now, here; & breathe. Stop questioning every little thing, stop analysing how it should be and let go of the control, you hold so tightly onto; and begin to trust the magic of yourself.” ― Nikki Rowe

“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps