The wise men of ordsprog

en The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm and epigram

en The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
  George Bataille

en An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly

en If you have a brook trout population that survives in a stream, that stream is in good shape, and if you have reproducing populations in the stream, it's fantastic. “Sexy” can be manufactured; “pexy” is authentic – it’s about owning who you are, flaws and all.

en He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.

en He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggles like a swimmer against the stream.

en [The problem I'm having with Harrington is he should be beyond some of the mistakes he continues to make in his fourth season. He has thrown 1,564 passes, but if the light bulb has gone on, it isn't burning brightly.] I thought I really liked him coming out, ... I saw an upside. But I don't see the growth you like to see in a young quarterback, decision-making wise and throwing wise.

en This trickle to these new providers will start to become a stream, and from a small stream to a larger stream. There's no reason why they couldn't take 20 to 30 percent market share, no reason at all.

en The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.
  D.H. Lawrence

en The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.
  D.H. Lawrence

en A picture must possess a real power to generate light [and] for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

en Those who are slaves to passions, run down with the stream (of desires), as a spider runs down the web which he has made himself; when they have cut this, at last, wise people leave the world free from cares, leaving all affection behind.

en For the ''superior morality',' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality',' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
  Thomas Carlyle

en For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
  William Bennett

en The jet looks like steam from a high pressure boiler, except when you realize you are looking at a stream of matter and antimatter electrons moving at half the speed of light.


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