lapidary apothegms

pithy sayings (apothegms) that should be written in stone (lapidary)

Schopenhauer, talent vis-a-vis genius

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January 26, 2012 at 2:01 am

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Happiness is

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January 14, 2012 at 2:19 am

The Greatest Glory of a Building

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November 26, 2011 at 10:27 am

silencing mankind

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October 21, 2011 at 9:33 am

To love at all is to be vulnerable…

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October 4, 2011 at 8:46 pm

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beauty has many meanings

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September 5, 2011 at 10:21 am

Don’t expect too much out of human beings.

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July 20, 2011 at 3:05 pm

The cure is often worse than the disease

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July 13, 2011 at 4:52 pm

Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort

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July 10, 2011 at 9:09 am

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No one ever believes that the Bible means what it says…

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June 25, 2011 at 6:54 pm

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder or the three ‘gazes’ in the Louvre

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June 13, 2011 at 12:28 am

William Morris, useful or beautiful

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June 12, 2011 at 11:13 pm

only time can give us back the future

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May 6, 2011 at 11:52 am

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

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April 24, 2011 at 5:52 pm

wonder is the first of all the passions

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March 28, 2011 at 12:29 pm

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life is too short

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March 24, 2011 at 7:28 pm

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if you can’t read all your books, at least fondle them

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March 7, 2011 at 6:35 am

experience of physical surroundings – place matters

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February 4, 2011 at 6:39 pm

object of true education

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February 1, 2011 at 7:08 am

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant

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January 22, 2011 at 1:42 pm

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metaphors rearrange the furniture of the mind

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January 6, 2011 at 8:18 pm

Tempted at the point of your greatest strength

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December 2, 2010 at 11:51 am

Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

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November 30, 2010 at 12:55 pm

solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition

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November 11, 2010 at 12:45 pm

noise inverse proportion to mentality

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October 16, 2010 at 11:05 pm

need to complain

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October 16, 2010 at 9:55 pm

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Kierkegaard: to find the idea for which I can live and die

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September 24, 2010 at 6:54 pm

ancient witness vis-a-vis private judgment

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September 23, 2010 at 1:10 pm

seek knowledge in order to serve and edify others

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September 20, 2010 at 11:54 am

extreme iconoclasm belongs to the restoration of meaning

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September 8, 2010 at 2:22 pm

necessity is the mother of invention

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September 5, 2010 at 11:37 am

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Memory: that we might have roses in December

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August 19, 2010 at 9:18 am

everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise

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July 19, 2010 at 4:14 am

Joyce: “yes i said yes i will yes”

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July 18, 2010 at 9:42 am

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Lost is time not spent in loving

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July 1, 2010 at 11:47 am

our identity is defined in dialogue

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June 15, 2010 at 9:00 pm

The world is full of wild things… stupid ones too

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June 12, 2010 at 8:47 pm

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fallibilism

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June 10, 2010 at 5:59 pm

we are here on earth

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June 9, 2010 at 9:10 pm

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Mae West “…but I drifted”

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June 5, 2010 at 1:46 pm

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contemplation

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April 27, 2010 at 7:26 pm

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count him rich who is wise

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March 7, 2010 at 2:33 pm

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In every piece of memory there lies a bit of salvation

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note: Marcel never bites the scalloped “petites madeleines” ―
the “remembrance of things past” is triggered by the crumbs.

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February 27, 2010 at 12:57 pm

“to die and dare rebirth”

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February 10, 2010 at 10:33 am

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unvisited tombs

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January 14, 2010 at 3:49 pm

a play is fiction, & fiction is fact distorted into truth

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January 13, 2010 at 12:31 am

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Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards

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January 8, 2010 at 3:07 am

On Visiting Bookshops

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December 11, 2009 at 1:00 pm

Prayer: God more often exercises justice than power

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December 11, 2009 at 9:58 am

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perfectionism

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imperfection

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November 13, 2009 at 7:20 pm

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