“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns.”
Interview All Songs Considered, NPR, May 20, 2008
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Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine" (1961), Columbia University Forum 4 (Summer 1961): 21-25; it later appeared in Stanley A. Clayes, ed., Drama and Discussion (1967), pp. 604-7, as quoted in "Rick On Theater" 25 January 2018 http://rickontheater.blogspot.com/2018/01/beckett-by-madeleine.html.
“Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.”
Dean Karnazes (1962) American distance runner
Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”
Henry Miller book Tropic of Capricorn
Tropic of Capricorn http://books.google.com/books?id=_HAhCxNs-QUC&lpg=PA176&q="Confusion+is+a+word+we+have+invented+for+an+order+which+is+not+understood"&pg=PA176#v=onepage (1939)
“Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.”
Ian Paisley (1926–2014) Politician and former church minister
To Jeremy Hanley, who had introduced himself to Paisley saying "How do you do? I did not realise that you were on our side."http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com/pa/cm199091/cmhansrd/1990-11-07/Debate-2.html