Senft Stephen Quotes & Sayings

The worse things are, the more they play philosopher. The more obvious the nonsense, the profounder their thoughts. The more lawlessness there is, the more laws. The more widespread the chaos, the more insistent their love of symmetry. — Tadeusz Konwicki

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength. — Laozi

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political society. And voluntarily, through the private interaction of individuals and associations - what we can call civil society ... In a civil society, you make the decision. In a political society, someone else does ... Civil society is based on reason, eloquence, and persuasion, which is to say voluntarism. Political society, on the other hand, is based on force. — Ed Crane

Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice. — Jeffrey Eugenides

To the people who were going to be replaced by machines, maybe. A third one, eh? In a way, I guess the third one's been going on for some time, if you mean thinking machines. That would be the third revolution, I guess - machines that devaluate human thinking. Some of the big computers like EPICAC do that all right, in specialized fields. — Kurt Vonnegut

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality, the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. — Arthur Christopher Benson

every blooming flowers are beautiful. — Ilchi Lee