Stephen's Quotes for the Depression Forums 5-2
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 8:35 pm
MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.
-- Doug Ferrari
Virtue is its own punishment.
-- Aneurin Bevan
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
-- Rene Descartes
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946
-- Doug Ferrari
Virtue is its own punishment.
-- Aneurin Bevan
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
-- Rene Descartes
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946