“For a brief time I was here; and for a brief time I mattered.”
Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer
His entire afterword to The Essential Ellison (1987)
Also quoted in the death announcement made by his publicist (28 June 2018).
“Is there a place
here for the spirit? Is there time
on this brief platform for anything
other than mind's failure to explain itself?”
"Balance", p. 49
Frequencies (1978)
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Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, November, New York Times Interview (November 23, 2016)
“The 'meaning' of life is not to be found in anything other than that life itself.”
Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991) French philosopher
From Critique of Everyday Life: Volume 1 (1947/1991)
Context: The 'meaning' of life is not to be found in anything other than that life itself. It is within it, and there is nothing beyond that. 'Meaning' cannot spill over from being; it is the direction, the movement of being, and nothing more. The 'meaning' of a proletarian's life is to be found in that life itself: in its despair, or conversely in its movement towards freedom, if the proletarian participates in the life of the proletariat, and if that life involves continuous, day-to-day action (trade-union, political...).
John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) American physicist
"Hermann Weyl and the Unity of Knowledge" http://www.weylmann.com/wheeler.shtml, American Scientist (July-August 1986) Vol. 74, pp. 366-375. Reprinted in At Home in the Universe (1993), p. 171. http://books.google.com/books?id=w9BXAAAAYAAJ&q=%22hermann+weyl+and+the+unity+of+knowledge%22#search_anchor
“Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 7
Peter J. Carroll (1953) British occultist
Source: PsyberMagick (1995), p. 64
Context: The pseudoscience of astrology has no place in magick. Astrology has already died twice: once with the classical gods, and a second time after the Enlightenment. The complete failure of contemporary psychology to create anything other than a vocabulary of intellectual rubbish has encouraged astrology to resurface.
Barbara Bush (1925–2018) former First Lady of the United States
On the abortion debate, in which her stance was the opposite of her husband's, as quoted in TIME magazine (24 August 1992)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future. If I can be firm enough to-day to do right, and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now. Be it how it will, do right now. Always scorn appearances, and you always may. The force of character is cumulative.
