Guinse Quotes & Sayings

Any system described by a power law [ ... ] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average. — Clay Shirky

What we call isolation in the political sphere, is called loneliness in the sphere of social intercourse.Isolation and loneliness are not the same"...."While isolation concerns only the political realm of life, loneliness concerns life as a whole. Totalitarian government, like all tyrannies, certainly could not exist without destroying the public realm of life, that is, without destroying, by isolating men, their political capacities.But totalitarian domination as a form of government is not content with this isolation and destroys private life as well. it bases its self on loneliness, on the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is the most radical and desperate experiences of man — Hannah Arendt

I'm emotionless right now. It's hard to describe how I'm feeling. — Wes Short Jr.

Everything you see is filtered through your visual system (imperfect) and your brain (also imperfect, despite what your mom told you). Witness testimony is the worst kind of evidence in science. — Seth Shostak

If becoming a person of faith were more like, say, receiving a personality transplant, life would be easier. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican. — G.K. Chesterton