"I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?"

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Source : William Allingham (1967). “William Allingham's diary”, Centaur Press

William Allingham

#Men Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Toil Quotes

“Travel is the ultimate inspiration.”
“You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.”
“The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International
“Put your money where your mouth is.”
“The typical WW1 soldier was not an intellectual like Ernst JÃ¼nger or Wilfred Owen, but was a peasant draftee from Galicia or Bavaria or Sicily, with all the traditional religious ideas. The hothouse atmosphere of war brought everyone into a supernatural-oriented universe of ghosts and apparitions.”
“I would rather be the hammer than the anvil”
“When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.”

Source : "Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions?". Richard Lindzen's remarks for Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arxiv.org. September 19, 2008.
“The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.”

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