4.25.2006

gray google

jeez, google. what is up with your quotes of the day? maybe it's the cloudy weather over HQ in mountainview, ca. why is it that so many of our most brilliant philosophers throughout history seem dissatisfied with the human condition? usually, it's the optimistic species that is supposed to survive longer, although i suppose that if you're "brilliant" you'll survive regardless.
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
- George Aiken
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
- Henry David Thoreau
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

1 comment:

AK said...

I was very intrigued by that last one... Maybe he's just trying to encourage us to look honestly at our friends and our enemies? Be able to see both the good qualities of our enemies and the flaws of our friends?