But don't get discouraged comrades. Christ failed too.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialBut don't get discouraged comrades. Christ failed too.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialProverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhy is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIs it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThose who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGrowth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThere is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNight and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialEvery man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOur job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAmong politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for "To hell with our children."
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAll governments require enemy governments.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIf the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhat's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.