Podcast Series 2 Episode 6
On Sayings
“If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.”
Richard Burton (1925–1984) Welsh actor
In Gene N Landrum Paranoia & Power: Fear & Fame of Entertainment Icons http://books.google.com/books?id=x3uHJsk1DuwC&pg=PA225, Morgan James Publishing, 1 November 2007, p. 225
Georgy Zhukov (1896–1974) Marshal of the Soviet Union
To Joseph Stalin. Quoted in "Field Marshal Von Manstein, a Portrait: The Janus Head" - Page 164 - by Marcel Stein, Gwyneth Fairbank - History - 2007
“He that is not aware of his ignorance, will be only misled by his knowledge.”
Richard Whately (1787–1863) English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian
Thoughts and Apophthegms from the Writings of Archbishop Whately (1856), p. 164 http://books.google.com/books?id=kW8YAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA164
“You can only experience the new when you are aware, when you are without thought.”
Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Context: When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love. You can only experience the new when you are aware, when you are without thought.
“In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish—that is their strength.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 6, 1889)
Letters
