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  1. A quotation from Thomas More

       Will thou know what wonders strange be in the land that late was found?
       Will thou learn thy life to lead, by divers ways that godly be?
       Will thou of virtue and vice understand the very ground?
       Will thou see this wretched world, how full it is of vanity?
     
    [Vis nova monstra, novo dudum nunc orbe reperto?
       Vivendi varia uis ratione modos?
    Vis qui virtutum fontes, vis unde malorum
       Principia? et quantum rebus inane latet?]

    Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
    Utopia, “A Meter of Four Verses in the Utopian Tongue,” “Cornelius Graphey to the Reader” (1516 ed.) [tr. Open Utopia (Duncombe) (2012)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83122/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #discovery #exploration #foreigners #strangeness #virtue #wonder

  2. A quotation from Thomas More

       Will thou know what wonders strange be in the land that late was found?
       Will thou learn thy life to lead, by divers ways that godly be?
       Will thou of virtue and vice understand the very ground?
       Will thou see this wretched world, how full it is of vanity?
     
    [Vis nova monstra, novo dudum nunc orbe reperto?
       Vivendi varia uis ratione modos?
    Vis qui virtutum fontes, vis unde malorum
       Principia? et quantum rebus inane latet?]

    Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
    Utopia, “A Meter of Four Verses in the Utopian Tongue,” “Cornelius Graphey to the Reader” (1516 ed.) [tr. Open Utopia (Duncombe) (2012)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83122/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #discovery #exploration #foreigners #strangeness #virtue #wonder

  3. A quotation from Thomas More

       Will thou know what wonders strange be in the land that late was found?
       Will thou learn thy life to lead, by divers ways that godly be?
       Will thou of virtue and vice understand the very ground?
       Will thou see this wretched world, how full it is of vanity?
     
    [Vis nova monstra, novo dudum nunc orbe reperto?
       Vivendi varia uis ratione modos?
    Vis qui virtutum fontes, vis unde malorum
       Principia? et quantum rebus inane latet?]

    Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
    Utopia, “A Meter of Four Verses in the Utopian Tongue,” “Cornelius Graphey to the Reader” (1516 ed.) [tr. Open Utopia (Duncombe) (2012)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83122/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #discovery #exploration #foreigners #strangeness #virtue #wonder

  4. A quotation from Thomas More

       Will thou know what wonders strange be in the land that late was found?
       Will thou learn thy life to lead, by divers ways that godly be?
       Will thou of virtue and vice understand the very ground?
       Will thou see this wretched world, how full it is of vanity?
     
    [Vis nova monstra, novo dudum nunc orbe reperto?
       Vivendi varia uis ratione modos?
    Vis qui virtutum fontes, vis unde malorum
       Principia? et quantum rebus inane latet?]

    Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
    Utopia, “A Meter of Four Verses in the Utopian Tongue,” “Cornelius Graphey to the Reader” (1516 ed.) [tr. Open Utopia (Duncombe) (2012)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83122/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #discovery #exploration #foreigners #strangeness #virtue #wonder

  5. A quotation from Horace

    Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
    We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
    Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
    Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
    In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
    Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
    Who courts variety and fain would ring
    A thousand changes on the self-same string,
    Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
    Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
    Thus even error, shun’d without address,
    Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
     
    [Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
    decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
    obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
    deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
    serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
    qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
    delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
    in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing

  6. A quotation from Horace

    Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
    We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
    Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
    Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
    In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
    Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
    Who courts variety and fain would ring
    A thousand changes on the self-same string,
    Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
    Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
    Thus even error, shun’d without address,
    Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
     
    [Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
    decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
    obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
    deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
    serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
    qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
    delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
    in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing

  7. A quotation from Horace

    Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
    We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
    Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
    Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
    In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
    Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
    Who courts variety and fain would ring
    A thousand changes on the self-same string,
    Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
    Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
    Thus even error, shun’d without address,
    Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
     
    [Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
    decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
    obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
    deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
    serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
    qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
    delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
    in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing

  8. A quotation from Horace

    Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
    We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
    Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
    Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
    In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
    Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
    Who courts variety and fain would ring
    A thousand changes on the self-same string,
    Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
    Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
    Thus even error, shun’d without address,
    Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
     
    [Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
    decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
    obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
    deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
    serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
    qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
    delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
    in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing

  9. A quotation from Horace

    Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
    We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
    Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
    Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
    In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
    Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
    Who courts variety and fain would ring
    A thousand changes on the self-same string,
    Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
    Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
    Thus even error, shun’d without address,
    Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
     
    [Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
    decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
    obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
    deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
    serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
    qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
    delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
    in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing

  10. A quotation from Douglas Adams

    “You,” said Sally Mills, “are very strange.”
    “Only,” said Dirk, “as strange as I need to be.”

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
    Dirk Gently, No. 2, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 10 (1988)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-douglas/74183/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #dirkgently #oddity #peculiarity #strangeness #weirdness

  11. A quotation from Douglas Adams

    “You,” said Sally Mills, “are very strange.”
    “Only,” said Dirk, “as strange as I need to be.”

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
    Dirk Gently, No. 2, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 10 (1988)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-douglas/74183/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #dirkgently #oddity #peculiarity #strangeness #weirdness

  12. A quotation from Douglas Adams

    “You,” said Sally Mills, “are very strange.”
    “Only,” said Dirk, “as strange as I need to be.”

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
    Dirk Gently, No. 2, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 10 (1988)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-douglas/74183/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #dirkgently #oddity #peculiarity #strangeness #weirdness

  13. A quotation from Douglas Adams

    “You,” said Sally Mills, “are very strange.”
    “Only,” said Dirk, “as strange as I need to be.”

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
    Dirk Gently, No. 2, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 10 (1988)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-douglas/74183/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #dirkgently #oddity #peculiarity #strangeness #weirdness

  14. A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

    The most absurd customs and the most ridiculous ceremonies are everywhere excused by an appeal to the phrase, but that’s the tradition. This is exactly what the Hottentots say when Europeans ask them why they eat grasshoppers and devour their body lice. That’s the tradition, they explain.
     
    [Les coutumes les plus absurdes, les étiquettes les plus ridicules, sont en France et ailleurs sous la protection de ce mot: c’est l’usage. C’est précisément ce même mot que répondent les Hottentots, quand les Européens leur demandent pourquoi ils mangent des sauterelles, pourquoi ils dévorent la vermine dont ils sont couverts. Ils disent aussi: c’est l’usage.]

    Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
    Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 3, ¶ 249 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/377…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #absurdity #ceremony #convention #custom #precedent #protocol #ridiculousness #ritual #statusquo #strangeness #tradition

  15. A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

    The most absurd customs and the most ridiculous ceremonies are everywhere excused by an appeal to the phrase, but that’s the tradition. This is exactly what the Hottentots say when Europeans ask them why they eat grasshoppers and devour their body lice. That’s the tradition, they explain.
     
    [Les coutumes les plus absurdes, les étiquettes les plus ridicules, sont en France et ailleurs sous la protection de ce mot: c’est l’usage. C’est précisément ce même mot que répondent les Hottentots, quand les Européens leur demandent pourquoi ils mangent des sauterelles, pourquoi ils dévorent la vermine dont ils sont couverts. Ils disent aussi: c’est l’usage.]

    Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
    Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 3, ¶ 249 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/377…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #absurdity #ceremony #convention #custom #precedent #protocol #ridiculousness #ritual #statusquo #strangeness #tradition

  16. A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

    The most absurd customs and the most ridiculous ceremonies are everywhere excused by an appeal to the phrase, but that’s the tradition. This is exactly what the Hottentots say when Europeans ask them why they eat grasshoppers and devour their body lice. That’s the tradition, they explain.
     
    [Les coutumes les plus absurdes, les étiquettes les plus ridicules, sont en France et ailleurs sous la protection de ce mot: c’est l’usage. C’est précisément ce même mot que répondent les Hottentots, quand les Européens leur demandent pourquoi ils mangent des sauterelles, pourquoi ils dévorent la vermine dont ils sont couverts. Ils disent aussi: c’est l’usage.]

    Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
    Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 3, ¶ 249 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/377…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #absurdity #ceremony #convention #custom #precedent #protocol #ridiculousness #ritual #statusquo #strangeness #tradition

  17. A quotation from Douglas Adams

    “You,” said Sally Mills, “are very strange.”
    “Only,” said Dirk, “as strange as I need to be.”

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English writer
    The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 10 (1988)

    Sourcing / notes: wist.info/adams-douglas/74183/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #oddity #strangeness #weirdness

  18. A quotation from Adams, Douglas:

    «
    “You,” said Sally Mills, “are very strange.”
    “Only,” said Dirk, “as strange as I need to be.”
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/adams-douglas/74183/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #oddity #strangeness #weirdness

  19. A quotation from Adams, Douglas:

    «
    “You,” said Sally Mills, “are very strange.”
    “Only,” said Dirk, “as strange as I need to be.”
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/adams-douglas/74183/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #oddity #strangeness #weirdness

  20. A quotation from Adams, Douglas:

    «
    “You,” said Sally Mills, “are very strange.”
    “Only,” said Dirk, “as strange as I need to be.”
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/adams-douglas/74183/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #oddity #strangeness #weirdness

  21. Saw this weird optical effect this morning. The lantern is an illusion, though the bracket it’s hanging on is real.

    Completely unedited image.

    #opticalillusion #weird #illusion #reality #strangeness

  22. Saw this weird optical effect this morning. The lantern is an illusion, though the bracket it’s hanging on is real.

    Completely unedited image.

    #opticalillusion #weird #illusion #reality #strangeness

  23. Saw this weird optical effect this morning. The lantern is an illusion, though the bracket it’s hanging on is real.

    Completely unedited image.

    #opticalillusion #weird #illusion #reality #strangeness

  24. Saw this weird optical effect this morning. The lantern is an illusion, though the bracket it’s hanging on is real.

    Completely unedited image.

    #opticalillusion #weird #illusion #reality #strangeness

  25. Saw this weird optical effect this morning. The lantern is an illusion, though the bracket it’s hanging on is real.

    Completely unedited image.

    #opticalillusion #weird #illusion #reality #strangeness

  26. New issue of Kzoo Star dropped :)

    Enjoy some #weirdness, #strangeness, and odd #humor? Like it in a semi-flyer-newsletter format? Like it #free because the first 10 of anything on #Vella is free?

    You might like my nonsense!

    amazon.com/kindle-vella/episod

  27. New issue of Kzoo Star dropped :)

    Enjoy some #weirdness, #strangeness, and odd #humor? Like it in a semi-flyer-newsletter format? Like it #free because the first 10 of anything on #Vella is free?

    You might like my nonsense!

    amazon.com/kindle-vella/episod

  28. New issue of Kzoo Star dropped :)

    Enjoy some #weirdness, #strangeness, and odd #humor? Like it in a semi-flyer-newsletter format? Like it #free because the first 10 of anything on #Vella is free?

    You might like my nonsense!

    amazon.com/kindle-vella/episod

  29. New issue of Kzoo Star dropped :)

    Enjoy some #weirdness, #strangeness, and odd #humor? Like it in a semi-flyer-newsletter format? Like it #free because the first 10 of anything on #Vella is free?

    You might like my nonsense!

    amazon.com/kindle-vella/episod

  30. A quotation from Byron, George Gordon, Lord:

    «
    ‘T is strange — but true; for truth is always strange;
    Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,
    How much would novels gain by the exchange!
    How differently the world would men behold!
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/byron/71562/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #believability #comprehension #fiction #perspective #strangeness #truth

  31. A quotation from Byron, George Gordon, Lord:

    «
    ‘T is strange — but true; for truth is always strange;
    Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,
    How much would novels gain by the exchange!
    How differently the world would men behold!
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/byron/71562/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #believability #comprehension #fiction #perspective #strangeness #truth

  32. A quotation from Byron, George Gordon, Lord:

    «
    ‘T is strange — but true; for truth is always strange;
    Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,
    How much would novels gain by the exchange!
    How differently the world would men behold!
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/byron/71562/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #believability #comprehension #fiction #perspective #strangeness #truth

  33. A quotation from Byron, George Gordon, Lord:

    «
    ‘T is strange — but true; for truth is always strange;
    Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,
    How much would novels gain by the exchange!
    How differently the world would men behold!
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/byron/71562/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #believability #comprehension #fiction #perspective #strangeness #truth

  34. Dear Friends of #swearing at ones #computer,
    I hear
    #Cantonese is best for this. However as an #imaginary #aquatic and C #critter, I tend to blow bubbles in my human form. 😇
    e.g.
    1. "Bless my
    #footsies, the #computerverse is doing #strangeness"
    2. "Oh damn, jam and sugar"
    3. "Excuse me
    #computerperson, I need to ice #scream into a pillow... for an hour"
    Sadly my
    #expletives are more #colourful ​:ablobcatcoffee:​ and may #frighten the #cosmos ​:blobangery:​

  35. Dear Friends of #swearing at ones #computer,
    I hear
    #Cantonese is best for this. However as an #imaginary #aquatic and C #critter, I tend to blow bubbles in my human form. 😇
    e.g.
    1. "Bless my
    #footsies, the #computerverse is doing #strangeness"
    2. "Oh damn, jam and sugar"
    3. "Excuse me
    #computerperson, I need to ice #scream into a pillow... for an hour"
    Sadly my
    #expletives are more #colourful ​:ablobcatcoffee:​ and may #frighten the #cosmos ​:blobangery:​

  36. Dear Friends of #swearing at ones #computer,
    I hear
    #Cantonese is best for this. However as an #imaginary #aquatic and C #critter, I tend to blow bubbles in my human form. 😇
    e.g.
    1. "Bless my
    #footsies, the #computerverse is doing #strangeness"
    2. "Oh damn, jam and sugar"
    3. "Excuse me
    #computerperson, I need to ice #scream into a pillow... for an hour"
    Sadly my
    #expletives are more #colourful ​:ablobcatcoffee:​ and may #frighten the #cosmos ​:blobangery:​

  37. A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas:

    «
    #Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is…
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/carlyle-thomas/63672

    #quote #quotes #quotation #criticism #writing #creativity #strangeness

  38. A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas:

    «
    #Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is…
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
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  39. Once reductionist entanglements are sufficiently disentangled through experimental measurements or observations, science finds the summated, bigger picture of everyday reality it started from as the curiosity to look.
    - Chris Handrahan

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