
Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself
Source: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It"
Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself
“Any definitions we care to make about matter are thus tautological.”
Source: Liber Kaos (1992), p. 83
Context: Matter can be conveniently divided for descriptive purposes into space, time, mass, and energy. However we can only describe any one of these phenomena in terms of the other three. Any definitions we care to make about matter are thus tautological.
“Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.”
Your Inner Awakening
On the political cartoons of Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, as quoted in "Article IV: An Episode in Municipal Government" by Charles F. Wingate in The North American Review (July 1875), p. 150
“Must we behave like some damn godforsaken tribe that's just been discovered?”
Source: The God of Small Things