The Heroic Stars

12/29/2011

0 Comments

 
"The heroic stars spending themselves,
Coining their very flesh into bullets for the lost battle,
They must burn out at length like used candles;
And Mother Night will weep in her triumph, taking home her heroes.
There is the stuff for an epic poem--
This magnificent raid at the heart of darkness, this lost battle--
We don't know enough, we'll never know.
Oh happy Homer, taking the stars and the Gods for granted."
-Robinson Jeffers, The Epic Stars

Add Comment
 

Hitch Quote

12/29/2011

0 Comments

 
“To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.”
― Christopher Hitchens
Add Comment
 

Christopher Hitchens Tribute (1949-2011)

12/23/2011

1 Comment

 
___“The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
― Christopher Hitchens


“We make no saint of Thomas Jefferson—we leave the mindless business of canonization and the worship of humans to the fanatics—but aware as we are of his many crimes and contradictions we say with confidence that his memory and example will endure long after the moral pygmies who try to blot out his name have been forgotten.”
― Christopher Hitchens
1 Comment
 

Mark Twain Quotes

12/12/2011

0 Comments

 
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
       
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only
earthly certainty is oblivion.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that
bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
       
Mark Twain (1835-1910)


Add Comment