Who shall decide when doctors disagree, and sound casuists doubt like you and me?
~ Alexander Pope
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Disagreement →
Pictures →
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.
~ Elliot Erwitt
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Machines →
If you fall in love with a machine there is something wrong with your love-life. If you worship a machine there is something wrong with your religion.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Uncompleted →
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
~ William James
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Malice →
Insolence is not logic; Epithets are the arguments of malice.
~ R.G. Ingerson
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Democracy →
The polis or gathering place for governing, the root of our modern politics, was nothing but a physical space that designated and enabled the conversational space required for true self-governing. The capacity for talking together constituted the foundation for democracy, far more fundamental than voting. As one ancient Greek philosopher noted, “When voting started, democracy ended.”
~ Peter M. Senge
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Missionaries →
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.
~ Chalmers
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Well-composed →
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits.
~ Napoleon
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Noticing →
All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice.
~ Elliott Erwitt
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