People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but a soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
yearning...................
Our consciousness yearns for transcendence, to feel we are a part of something greater than our individual selves.
-Robert Greene, The Law of The Sublime
coherent and livable..................
Holmes said he thought railing against the universe was like damning the weather or firing a gun at the sky; the only change it produced on the relation between man and the cosmos was the kick of the gun on the man who fired it. "It seems to me that the only promising activity is make my universe coherent and livable, not to babble about the universe," he wrote (William) James in 1907.
-Stephen Budiansky, Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
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