The Daily Sabbatical » Quoth

Quoth

rjhowell — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:18:22 +0000

“Question the least little thing in their speeches and they will go on like bronze bowls that keep ringing for a long time after they have been struck and prolong the sound indefinitely unless you dampen them.”
—Socrates (Plato’s Protagoras)

Obama: “It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.”

rjhowell — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:35:56 +0000

Quoth

rjhowell — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:16:08 +0000

“The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of this world.”

–William James (The Varieties of Religious Experience)

Quoth

rjhowell — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:54:06 +0000

Found on ReadySteadyBook:

Flannery O’Connor:

I am often asked if universities stifle writers. My view is that they don’t stifle enough of them.