“All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.” HomeEarthRememberForgetSubjectsMankindBrokenBonesJapanConsentChillMantrasPromptsCalmerBroken HomesBroken Bone Author:Simon Winchester
“Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true precisely because it is a philosophic explanation. The process of philosophic explanation is an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into subjects and predicates. What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.” MeanProcessSimpleQualitySubjectsBrokenDirectMysteriousExplanationAnalyticsPhilosophicBroken DownZen Motorcycle Maintenance Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.” MenNamesSubjectsBrokenGlassesReputationNailsTornGarmentsCrackedReproachTainted Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works
“We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.” ThinkingHeartCareSufferingDiesPoorRichSubjectsFrontsExampleSeriousBrokenEqualPainfulRich Poor Author:Marjane Satrapi
“What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.” IfsMeanSimpleQualitySituationSubjectsBrokenDirectMysteriousWhat IfBroken DownHypotheticalZen Motorcycle Maintenance Author:Robert M. Pirsig