Who shall decide when doctors disagree, and sound casuists doubt like you and me?
~ Alexander Pope
Elsewhere, this is 4a1367. — slipbox
Disagreement →
Pictures →
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.
~ Elliot Erwitt
Elsewhere, this is 4a1366. — slipbox
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
Elsewhere, this is 4a1364. — slipbox
Uncompleted →
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
~ William James
Elsewhere, this is 4a1363. — slipbox
Malice →
Insolence is not logic; Epithets are the arguments of malice.
~ R.G. Ingerson
Elsewhere, this is 4a1362. — slipbox
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
Elsewhere, this is 4a1361. — slipbox
Missionaries →
Well-composed →
Noticing →
All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice.
~ Elliott Erwitt
Elsewhere, this is 4a1357. — slipbox