Orts #888
. . . the grossest and most childish daydreams are most often found in those who treat higher things and treat them more deeply, becoming engulfed by their curiosity and presumption. The end and the beginning of knowledge are equal in stupidity.
-- Montaigne, in an essay, Apology for Raymond Sebond
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without extraordinary effort of genius or courage, becomes to a subsequent age, so palpable an absurdity that the only difficulty is, to imagine how such an idea could have ever appeared so credible.
— John Stuart Mill
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. It all depends on how much is revealed and in what manner.
— Mavis Gallant, in an essay, Paul Léautaud, 1872-1956
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
— Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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