Artist : Bruce Eric Kaplan Published: The New Yorker May 29 2000
A E Housman:
“For Nature, heartless, witless Nature
Will neither know nor care”
Steven Weinberg:
“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”
Richard Dawkins:
“…… if your God is a being who designs universes, listens to prayers, forgives sins, wreaks miracles, reads your thoughts, cares about your welfare and raises you from the dead, you are unlikely to be satisfied.”
Launched on Nov 29 2006, now 2,100+ posts...This bilingual blog - 'आन्याची फाटकी पासोडी' in Marathi- is largely a celebration of visual and/or comic ...तुकाराम: "ढेकणासी बाज गड,उतरचढ केवढी"...George Santayana: " Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence"...William Hazlitt: "Pictures are scattered like stray gifts through the world; and while they remain, earth has yet a little gilding."
Friday, December 29, 2006
Trying to remain sane
Artist : Bruce Eric Kaplan Published: The New Yorker August 23, 1999.
Steven Weinberg: “The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.”
I don't try to understand the universe. Therefore it is...........
Woody Allen says: “I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible be like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable"
Luckily I am miserable. So far!
But them Adam Phillips advises me: “Sanity involves learning to enjoy conflict, and giving up on all myths of harmony, consistency and redemption.".
I am trying to remain sane.
Steven Weinberg: “The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.”
I don't try to understand the universe. Therefore it is...........
Woody Allen says: “I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible be like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable"
Luckily I am miserable. So far!
But them Adam Phillips advises me: “Sanity involves learning to enjoy conflict, and giving up on all myths of harmony, consistency and redemption.".
I am trying to remain sane.