Personal Words to Live By
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:54 am
two from the ancients:
"the unexamined life is not worth living"
"a truly wise man realizes how much he does not know"
- Socrates
and
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy."
- Aristotle
Mr. Steve Albini once said something like the last one - he either told me or I read it in Forced Exposure a long time ago: blah blah, he does not care if everybody likes him, etc.
The quote was something like "I take a certain satisfaction in pissing off the right people".
"the unexamined life is not worth living"
"a truly wise man realizes how much he does not know"
- Socrates
and
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy."
- Aristotle
Mr. Steve Albini once said something like the last one - he either told me or I read it in Forced Exposure a long time ago: blah blah, he does not care if everybody likes him, etc.
The quote was something like "I take a certain satisfaction in pissing off the right people".