Quote of the Day

“It is the misfortune of all truly great minds to be wedded to errors as well as to truths.” — Lester Frank Ward, Dynamic Sociology

Quote of the Day

“Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the bare suspicion of ignorance.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son (1756-12-14)

Quote of the Day

“The sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply lack cognitive meaning and are interpretable only at the level of ‘Fuck You’, so they can then elicit a perfectly predictable torrent of abuse in response.” — Noam Chomsky, On Vaclav Havel Speech, letter to Alexander Cockburn (1990-03-01)

Quote of the Day

“Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.” — J. M. Coetzee, Slow Man

Quote of the Day

“Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of profound truths.” — Henry Miller, Sexus

Big Brother’s Imperfections

My brother and I were in altered states. He started to voice some truths about me. I wondered what the deal was. I admit my faults, I don’t display them.

I realized that I was not living up to his image of me. I am his big brother and I play the role. Another lesson on the path of letting go of what I am (“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — 老子).