RUHRtriennale - Information on the culture initiative in the Ruhr region, the schedule and venues.
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Society and Culture
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Society and Culture The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Society and Culture
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Society and Culture
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Society and Culture He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Society and Culture Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Society and Culture
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Society and Culture "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Society and Culture
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Society and Culture I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Society and Culture
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Society and Culture 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.
- Umberto Eco >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Society and Culture "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Society and Culture
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Society and Culture Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Society and Culture
