"Nobody since Newton has been able to use geometrical methods to the same extent for the like purposes; and as we read the Principia we feel as when we are in an ancient armoury where the weapons are of gigantic size; and as we look at them we marvel what manner of man he was who could use as a weapon what we can scarcely lift as a burden."

-- William Whewell

#Men Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Use Quotes

“Your love is the ultimate love that empowers all your efforts, a true love for what is indestructibly and perpetually you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Andrew W.K. from Feb 26, 2015
“It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he said that if his night-cap knew what was in his head he would throw it into the fire. That kind of secrecy was practicable in Frederick's time when his whole army was kept closely about him; but when maneuvers of the vastness of Napoleon's are executed, and war is waged as in our day, what concert of action can be expected from generals who are utterly ignorant of what is going on around them?”
“I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.”
“Parity is for farmers.”
“In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead”
“Happy family: The existence and maintenance of [this] is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory, the public are less concerned by whether or not they are effectively represented than by the need to be assured that the penises and vaginas of public officials are only used in legally sanctioned circumstances.”

Source : John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.156, Simon and Schuster
“Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.”

Source : "Everyday Life in the Modern World".
“Squirrels are just rats with good publicity”

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