Things People Said: Starting on a Brave New World

Things People Said

A collection of quotes I've kept for a while now. I add new ones fairly regularly, generally once or twice every week. Topics will be anything I find interesting that day, from famous writers, online forums, and everyone in between. Mail me quotes you find interesting, or leave them in comments.

Before this post:
• Because, hey, you know - Life IS Beautiful
• Oughtn't to be touched
• Such small portions
• Life's like that, sometimes
• And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remin...
• First principles, Clarice. Read Marcus Aurelius. O...
• And you think if you save poor Catherine, you coul...
• We live in a primitive time, don't we, Will? Neith...
• This, then, is love
• The Gift of Paying Attention

A tremendous debt is owed to the following:

Starting on a Brave New World

Utopias appear to be much easier to realize than one formerly believed. We currently face a question that would otherwise fill us with anguish: how to avoid their becoming definitively real?

-- Nicolas Berdiaeff

[ 24 October 2005 6:15 pm submitted by Unknown ]

"Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become." Edward O. Wilson Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge: This comment was left by Anonymous at 4:11 am.

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