pithy sayings (apothegms) that should be written in stone (lapidary)
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Written by Dan
January 14, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Posted in apothegms
Tagged with George Sand, Middlemarch, unhistoric acts, unvisited tombs
January 13, 2010 at 12:31 am
Tagged with Edward Albee, fiction, play, theater
January 8, 2010 at 3:07 am
Tagged with Cezanne, conversation, Theodore Zeldin
December 11, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Posted in apothegms, bookshops
Tagged with books, bookshops, bookstore, Christopher Morley
December 11, 2009 at 9:58 am
Posted in apothegms, prayer
Tagged with Montaigne, prayer
November 13, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Tagged with Addison, Fenelon, perfectionism
October 22, 2009 at 8:36 am
Tagged with home, Margaret Mead, Prodigal, Rembrandt
August 17, 2009 at 10:19 am
Tagged with Simone Weil, sin, voids
July 24, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Tagged with F.H. Bradley, metaphysics, twilight
May 16, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Posted in apothegms, killing
Tagged with killing, militarism, murder, Voltaire
April 22, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Posted in apothegms, getting into heaven
Tagged with getting into heaven, heaven, poor, reference letter
April 14, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Posted in apothegms, friendship
Tagged with friendship
April 1, 2009 at 12:02 am
Posted in apothegms, hero of my own life
Tagged with Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, first lines, hero, literature
with 2 comments
March 22, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Posted in apothegms, change
Tagged with change, John Henry Newman, perfect
March 17, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Tagged with Dante, eternity, hell
March 8, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Posted in apothegms, short-term worries
Tagged with anxiety, death, worry
February 22, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Posted in apothegms, sacred places
Tagged with abbey, chaos, Glastonbury, Gothic, Mircea Eliade, monastery, sacred places
February 16, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Posted in apothegms, world is a comedy... a tragedy
Tagged with comedy, feeling, Horace Walpole, thinking, tragedy
February 12, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Posted in apothegms, voyage of discovery consists in
Tagged with discovery, insight, Proust, voyage
February 11, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Posted in apothegms, true test of civilization
Tagged with poor, poverty, Samuel Johnson, test of civilization
February 10, 2009 at 2:48 am
Posted in apothegms, escape: I'm still here
Tagged with escape, existence, I'm still here
with one comment
February 4, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Posted in apothegms, clothes make the man (sic)
Tagged with clothes, Mark Twain, naked, quotation, Samuel Clemens
January 28, 2009 at 9:33 am
Posted in apothegms, self-knowledge
Tagged with identity, know thyself, meaning, personal evaluation, self-discovery, self-knowledge, values
January 26, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Posted in apothegms, letters mingle souls
Tagged with absence, friends, John Donne, kiss, letters, personal correspondence, quotation
January 26, 2009 at 1:21 am
Posted in apothegms, distracted from distraction by distraction
Tagged with distraction, T.S. Eliot
January 25, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Posted in apothegms, charming or tedious
Tagged with A Good Woman, charming, dividing people, good and bad, Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde, tedious, typology
January 24, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Posted in Adam & Eve, apothegms
Tagged with Adam & Eve, Genesis, Kafka, sin, tree of knowledge, tree of life
January 24, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Posted in apothegms, old as your arteries
Tagged with age, elderly
January 23, 2009 at 11:09 am
Tagged with commitment, critical detachment, Dean Martin, involvement, John Wayne, Kierkegaard, reality, Rio Bravo
January 23, 2009 at 8:15 am
Posted in apothegms, love the questions
Tagged with patience, questions, Rilke, unsolved
January 23, 2009 at 8:11 am
Posted in apothegms, solitude of the other
Tagged with fellowship, love, Rilke, solitude, the other
January 21, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Posted in apothegms, more than opinions
Tagged with Amiens, convictions, Gothic cathedral, Heinrich Heine, opinions
January 21, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Posted in apothegms, workaholic
Tagged with Basil the Great, overwork, Saint Basil, workaholic
January 21, 2009 at 8:33 am
Posted in apothegms, believing & thinking
Tagged with believing, Diogenes, stoicism, thinking
January 19, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Tagged with Buster Keaton, humorous resignation, Somerset Maugham
January 19, 2009 at 9:06 am
Posted in apothegms, intelligence
Tagged with behavior, intelligence, John Holt, knowing what to do
January 17, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Posted in apothegms, reality is a persistent illusion
Tagged with Einstein, epistemology, illusion, perception, reality
January 17, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Posted in apothegms, past is a foreign country
Tagged with history
January 15, 2009 at 3:50 am
Posted in apothegms, religions which condemn
Tagged with Bertrand Russell, pleasure, power, religion
January 14, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Posted in God's omnipotence, apothegms
Tagged with existence of God, God, omnipotence
January 14, 2009 at 6:48 am
Tagged with fight the good fight, sometimes the dragon wins, survival, winning and losing
January 13, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Tagged with Chesteron, desert island, if you could have only one book, marooned
January 13, 2009 at 7:24 am
Tagged with Chesterfield, learning, presumptive show of knowledge
January 13, 2009 at 5:54 am
Tagged with collecting, Mercer Museum, Walter Benjamin
January 13, 2009 at 5:52 am
Tagged with ability to accessorize, Steel Magnolias
January 13, 2009 at 5:47 am
Posted in apothegms, lost faith
Tagged with Bernanos, faith, Hodgell
January 12, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Tagged with voluntary simplicity, wealth
January 12, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Tagged with aspirations, Hopper, Nighthawks, personal identity, waiting
January 12, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Tagged with abstract art, art, Paul Klee, Picasso, realistic art
January 12, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Tagged with beating a dead horse, hippophilic necrophile, sadistic, Woody Allen
