kuny's unfamiliar quotations http://kuny.ca/index.php/a terry kuny's collection of quotes en-CA hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Bessie Stanley on "What Constitutes Success" (1905) http://kuny.ca/index.php/a/2010/04/21/bessie_stanley_on_what_constitutes_succe_1905 2010-04-21T18:43:25Z terribly general accumulation "He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction." "He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction."

]]> Nietzsche http://kuny.ca/index.php/a/2010/04/08/nietzsche_1 2010-04-08T12:13:28Z terribly general accumulation Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming. Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

]]> Eric Hobsbawn http://kuny.ca/index.php/a/2010/02/10/eric_hobsbawn 2010-02-11T02:10:14Z terribly general accumulation Fascism was triumphantly anti-liberal. It also provided the proof that man can, without difficulty, combine crack-brained beliefs about the world with a confident mastery of contemporary high technology. ... Nevertheless, the combination of conservative values, the techniques of mass democracy, and an innovative ideology of irrationalist savagery, essentially centered in nationalism, must be explained.. Age of Extremes Fascism was triumphantly anti-liberal. It also provided the proof that man can, without difficulty, combine crack-brained beliefs about the world with a confident mastery of contemporary high technology. ... Nevertheless, the combination of conservative values, the techniques of mass democracy, and an innovative ideology of irrationalist savagery, essentially centered in nationalism, must be explained..

Age of Extremes

]]> Antonio Gramsci http://kuny.ca/index.php/a/2010/02/10/antonio_gramsci 2010-02-11T01:07:04Z terribly general accumulation The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms. Letters from Prison (1946) The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.
Letters from Prison (1946)

]]> Henry David Thoreau http://kuny.ca/index.php/a/2009/11/05/henry_david_thoreau_6 2009-11-05T12:57:21Z terribly general accumulation For a man to pride himself on this kind of wealth, as if it enriched him, is as ridiculous as if one struggling in the ocean with a bag of gold on his back should gasp out, "I am worth a hundred thousand dollars!" I see his ineffectual struggles just as plainly, and what it is that sinks him. Journal November 5, 1857 For a man to pride himself on this kind of wealth, as if it enriched him, is as ridiculous as if one struggling in the ocean with a bag of gold on his back should gasp out, "I am worth a hundred thousand dollars!" I see his ineffectual struggles just as plainly, and what it is that sinks him.
Journal November 5, 1857

]]> Nietzsche http://kuny.ca/index.php/a/2009/10/22/nietzsche 2009-10-22T14:39:36Z terribly general accumulation And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

]]> Charles Bowden http://kuny.ca/index.php/a/2009/08/19/charles_bowden 2009-08-19T16:33:35Z terribly general accumulation I cannot seem to feel alive unless I am alert and I cannot feel alert unless I push past the point where I have control. -from Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing I cannot seem to feel alive unless I am alert and I cannot feel alert unless I push past the point where I have control.

-from Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing

]]> Simone Weil http://kuny.ca/index.php/a/2009/08/19/simone_weil 2009-08-19T14:54:38Z terribly general accumulation One must believe in the reality of time. Otherwise one is just dreaming. One must believe in the reality of time. Otherwise one is just dreaming.

]]> Comte Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (1618-1693) http://kuny.ca/index.php/a/2009/08/12/comte_roger_de_bussy_rabutin_1618_1693 2009-08-12T19:07:13Z terribly general accumulation God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small. God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small.

]]> J. G. Ballard http://kuny.ca/index.php/a/2009/04/21/j_g_ballard 2009-04-21T13:45:14Z terribly general accumulation The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

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