Escritas — Poems List

Kedar Joshi

At the heart of my

At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.

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Bill Vaughan

Economists report that a college

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college.

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Bette Davis

My passions were all gathered

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

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Abbie Hoffman

Stay away from needle drugs.

Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.

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Kedar Joshi

It is human to search

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

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Bill Vaughan

We learn something every day,

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

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Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

What a glorious garden of

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

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Kedar Joshi

How miserable a solipsist is!

How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one hand, if his belief is false it is like committing intellectual suicide, and, on the other hand, if his belief is true it is an act of intellectual insanity.

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Bill Vaughan

A three-year-old child is a

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

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Lynn Hall

We did not change as

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

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Douglas Adams

The story so far: In

The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

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Kedar Joshi

The question is how the

The question is how the questioner exists.

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John Varley

Never trust anybody who says

Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.' Except just this once, of course. - from Steel Beach

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H. L. Mencken

A judge is a law

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

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Battaille

[F]or academic men to be

[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

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Kedar Joshi

Man is an appearance; God

Man is an appearance; God is a reality.

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Sir John Vanbrugh

Virtue is its own reward.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

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Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

Although the whole of this

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

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Charlotte Brontë

It is in vain to

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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John G. Vance

Remember that it is far

Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently.

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Kedar Joshi

Meditation should be the foremost

Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

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Alfred North Whitehead

Nature gets credit which should

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

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Marie Curie

One never notices what has

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

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