Great Minds, Small Minds

A quote:

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

Or in modern parlance, great minds watch AMC & Showtime, average minds watch CNN and Fox News, small minds watch reality shows.

Jonah Goldberg: Caring about Muslims is a hate crime against Real Americans - War Room - Salon.com

My favorite bit:

Lots of arguments probably seem odd when you don't understand rhetoric or logic.

Boredom

Boredom 

is the root 

of all evil--

the despairing 

refusal 

to be 
oneself.

- 

Soren

Kierkegaard

Necessity

Ananke, Necessity, who stands above everything in ancient Greece, even Olympus and its gods, was never to have a face. Homer does not personify her, but he does describe her three daughters, the Fates with their spindles; or in the Erinyes, her emissaries; or Ate with her light feet. All female figures. There was only one place of worship dedicated to Ananke: on the slopes of the Acrocorinth, the mountain belonging to Aphrodite and her sacred prostitutes, stood a sanctuary to Ananke and Bia, goddess of violence. "But there is a tradition not to enter the temple," remarks Pausanias. And, indeed, what could one ask of she who does not listen? The difference between gods and men can be grasped above all in their relationship to Ananke. The gods endure her and use her; men merely endure her.

Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, 1993, pgs. 96-97