A closed mind is a wonderful thing to lose.

Thursday, May 29, 2003

We cautiously approach the question of universals. It is arguable whether universals exist, and how widely valid a principle must be before we confer on it the authority of a universal. It all depends on the size of one's universe. - Lewis Rowell, International Society for the Study of Time

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. -Louis Dembitz Brandeis, lawyer, judge, and writer (1856-1941)

Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I've made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

Friday, May 16, 2003

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Tuesday, May 13, 2003

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency,
we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. -Mark Twain