Miscellany
One of many useful gifts that I received from grad school is the habit of taking notes in a pocket-sized moleskin notebook. I record memorable statements, questions, and especially outrageous exclamations that I happen upon in my reading. As a result of much reading I have filled seven or eight of these notebooks with these treasured sayings. Each is comparable to finding a four leaf clover in an expanse of ordinary three leafed clovers. Here are a few out of the most recent note book.
I am indebted Dr. Ernie Campbell for convincing me of the utility and the delight of this practice. May I suggest friend, that it is never too late to get started……
Knowledge rusts if the mind cannot love.
–Guy DavenportOur destiny: to cross the sea of life on a raft of words.
–David P. GantarReality is that which prevents you from knowing what reality is.
–anonymousA fool with an idea is like an ape with a club.
–anonymousNirvana and Samsara are one.
–NagarjunaIf you are waiting for things to get back to normal—they have.
–anonymousSuccess is not the avoidance of error but the making of the right mistakes.
–anonymousIn the long run there is no long run.
–anonymousThe Tower of Babel is raised not by ignorance but by an army of facts.
–anonymousThe aim of wisdom is not to discover the land of truth but to chart the sea of lies.
–David P. GantarInformation is the arranged and intentional violation of the entropic order of the universe. Signs are solicitations that transmitters exercise on the conscious organism to induce the consumption of info goods. Signs are immaterial in so far as they are holders of meaning. They are material in so far as they are stimulators of the nervous system.
—Comment upon info-stimulus by Franco Berardi
