Aristotle on Thought
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
— Jan McKeithen
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.
Hope springs eternal in the human heart.
— Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
As TV’s Craig Ferguson would say, “It’s a great day for America, everybody.”