Backwards to a Foreword

I started these writings with the intent of making mostly comedic style social observations. But opinions are like arseholes- everyone's got one- and as if often the way- the original intent is not what has eventuated, as the darker side of my mind has been very much in control lately.

All my writings are essentially a point of view or recollections of lived experiences. As with witness statements, which are not admissible as evidence in court due to the high rate of inaccuracy- sometimes what I feel, think or remember won't be the same as other people who may have been present for the same events.

They are my thoughts, feelings and memories, and may not necessarily represent those of people represented in them.

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Favourite quotes

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
- Richard Dawkins

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion it has taken place.
- George Bernard Shaw

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface, and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
- J. W. von Goethe

Fear always springs from ignorance
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Support Bacteria- they're the only culture some people have. (unknown)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
- Tennessee Williams
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put ones thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
- J. W. von Goethe

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason; the madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason
- G.K. Chesterton

Truth is rightly named the daughter of time, not of authority.
- Francis Bacon
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
- disputed, possibly Winston Churchill

... the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.
-Soren Kierkegaard

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. 
- Oscar Wilde

We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
- Tennessee Williams
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