"Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by Professors Montjuic and Lauterbrunnen, and now reads, in the Shorter Harvard Orthodoxy: (a) I think, therefore I am; or (b) Perhaps I thought, therefore I was; but (c) These days, I tend to leave that side of things to my wife."

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Source : Tom Holt (2009). “Ye Gods!”, p.169, Hachette UK

Tom Holt

#Thinking Quotes #Wife Quotes #Orthodoxy Quotes

“I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.”
“Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?”
“These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other...but we need that money.”
“Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.”
“There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.”
“You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.”
“Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.”
“You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.”

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