Orts #847
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries, and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
— Blaise Pascal
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
— G.K. Chesterton, in On Running After Ones Hat, in All Things Considered (1908)
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written almost exactly a year ago, and worth re-reading today:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/opinion/what-a-trump-america-can-learn-from-a-berlusconi-italy.html