Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
No two beings and no two situations are really commensurable with each other; To become aware of this is to undergo a sort of crisis.
- banach's
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. -Bruce Lee
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything, there were only a wild ferment, a power that, twisting in dark passions, produced everything great or inconsequential, if an unfathomable, insatiable, emptiness lay hidden beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.