Obtain that which you do not want

«It is curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want».

 (Mr. Spock in the episode Errand of Mercy)

Chocolate and money

«If I like chocolate it won’t surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I’ve got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you’d think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money — money is all they think about — they’re all nuts».

(John Cleese)

When truly human

Ὠς χαρίεν ἔστʹ ἄνθρωπος, ὅταν ἄνθρωπος ᾗ

Qual cosa fine è l’uomo, quand’egli è davvero uomo.

What a fine thing a human is, when truly human!

 

(Menandro, frammento 761)

Die Welt ist ein großer Zirkus

«Die Welt ist ein großer Zirkus, so erklärt sich der große Bedarf an clowns».

 (Sergio Caldarella)

The games we play

«Nothing reveals Humanity so well as the games it plays»

(David Hartley, English philosopher 1705-1757)

A fool’s brain

«A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education».

(George Bernard Shaw)

Alone

From childhood’s hour I have not been

As others were—I have not seen

As others saw—I could not bring

My passions from a common spring—

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow—I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone—

And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—

Then—in my childhood—in the dawn

Of a most stormy life—was drawn

From ev’ry depth of good and ill

The mystery which binds me still—

From the torrent, or the fountain—

From the red cliff of the mountain—

From the sun that ’round me roll’d

In its autumn tint of gold—

From the lightning in the sky

As it pass’d me flying by—

From the thunder, and the storm—

And the cloud that took the form

(When the rest of Heaven was blue)

Of a demon in my view—

 

(Edgar Allan Poe)