Month: August 2011

History is the unfolding of miscalculations…

• by Crispin
• Posted on August 30, 2011
• Leave a comment on Barbara Tuchman

… skepticism is a resting place for reason, … but it cannot be its permanent dwelling-place.…

• by Crispin
• Posted on August 29, 2011
• Leave a comment on Immanuel Kant

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.…

• by Crispin
• Posted on August 21, 2011
• Leave a comment on Soren Kierkegaard

Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them.…

• by Crispin
• Posted on August 20, 2011
• Leave a comment on Richard Feynman

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.…

• by Crispin
• Posted on August 18, 2011
• Leave a comment on James Mackintosh

Fairyland is nothing but the sunny country of common sense.…

• by Crispin
• Posted on August 8, 2011
• Leave a comment on G K Chesterton

Adventure is just bad planning.…

• by Crispin
• Posted on August 3, 2011
• Leave a comment on Roald Amundsen

Eyebrows are made to be raised.…

• by Crispin
• Posted on August 2, 2011
• Leave a comment on David Thomson