“Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.” MayMomentsEvilProduceOceanVicesQuittingCeaseIdleAbyssIdlenessCradlePacificOften IsStagnantPacific Ocean Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".” GivingLooksStillsMomentsDiesTeamFootballNewsGive MeCoachesQuittingSeptemberBrillianceFootball TeamHelmetHendrix Author:Joe Satriani
“It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.” MomentsLightFaithInterestDoubtSeaIgnoranceHighestConnectedQuittingRevelationsInquiryHumiliating Author:Charles Caleb Colton