User:Bri/Quote/archive

The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation shall continue to live.

There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness.

We are all outliers, and we should welcome new outliers, in order to improve the encyclopedia together.

Improve on something, then put it out there for others to improve on.

French painting is very fine for the French people and not necessarily for us... All the good ideas I've ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

That the West should un-falteringly follow the East in fashions and ideals would be as false and fatal as that America should obey the standards of Europe. Let the West, daring and unprejudiced, discover its own ideals and follow them... Under the shadow of [these] great mountains a distinct personality shall arise, it shall adopt other fashions, create new ideals, and generations shall justify them.

We live clumsily because some inner map we have is untrue; it does not describe this person and this life. We live badly because we lie to ourselves... The disordered life usually cannot discipline itself to that quiet moment when the mind knows nothing and the heart seeks instruction.

This, reader, is an honest book... Had it been my purpose to seek the world's favour, I should have put on finer clothes, and have presented myself in a studied attitude... But it is myself I portray. My imperfections may be read to the life, and my natural form will be herein so far as respect for the public allows... So, reader, I am myself the substance of my book. I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Given WP's prominence as global source of information, the pressure has never been higher for people to manipulate what it says for public relations and propaganda purposes. Editing Wikipedia is worse for your sense of perspective than M.C. Escher-designed beer goggles. This product is self-evidently a waste of money but I don't think we have any evidence that it's a notable waste of money. The entity may be a "fraud" as the nom says, but it may be a notable fraud. Well, the Islamists, Jesus Freaks, and Bieber Cucumberists have won again.