“My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again.” BeautifulMovingRoomsPrinciplesFiveHabitSummerGardenTablesCleanMessVirginsTrashUnbearableSummer DaysDays Like This Author:Richard Dawkins
“The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.” WorldProblemRoomsPrinciplesModernChangedFindingsCrowdsConformModern WorldModern LifeGeographyHerdsAmused Book:Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy
“I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet? I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant.” IfsThinkingWorldWayMindProblemRoomsOpinionPrinciplesImpossiblePlanetsTerribleHealOur WorldSmallestOur PlanetViewpointsAccommodateUnkindUnkindness Book:The Spiral Staircase Source: The Spiral Staircase
“Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.” ThinkingFeelsDoeStatesPoliticalRoomsPowerfulPrinciplesRightsLimitsAuthorityStrongerMajorityLiberalismSpiteExpensesPolitical Rights Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.” MaySpiritLyingReligionRoomsChristianityPrinciplesScriptureTendenciesRevelationsWord Of GodFalsehoodBoastFanaticismPretenseSubversive Author:John Calvin
“One of the more popular activities was “Talk-O-Matic”. Five people at a time could write messages, and read each other's messages, on the same screen. Today, Internet chat rooms work on the same principle. One of the remarkable new features of this page was that you could log in with an invented name, and pretend you were anyone you wanted - any name, any age, any gender. One favorite trick was to log in using the name of someone else already logged into the page, simply to confuse everyone else.” PeopleWritingAgeTodayWantedNamesRoomsPrinciplesFiveInternetActivityMessagesPagesGenderScreensTricksFeaturesRemarkable Author:Guy Consolmagno