“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.” TwoWarEndsSometimesLanguagePoorWatchesBreakTakenGroupsSocietyStrangeHolyCreaturesBehaviorEatingRiversEggsCommandmentsTribesMonkeysPotatoesHeresyWashingCrusadesDivingBewilderment Author:Arthur Koestler
“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.” RealitySeemsPastFallDecisionExistenceSituationVisionTakenStrangeAdvantageResponseIntuitionConvincedMoodRecognitionLogicalSignificanceSuspicionVentureStrainSequenceMy PastPast LifeImmediacyRetrospectiveNew Ventures Author:Ansel Adams
“Eternity.Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet which contradict'st All sense, all reasoning,thou, who never wast Less than thyself, and who still art thyself Entire, though the deep draught which Time has taken Equals thy present storeNo line can reach To thy unfathomed depths. The reasoning sage Who can dissect a sunbeam, count the stars, And measure distant worlds, is here a child, And, humbled, drops his calculating pen.” WorldChildrenArtStillsNamesStarsLinesDarknessTakenStrangeShapesEternityDepthStoresGladWanderTheeReasoningPensFearfulSageThyselfCalculatingSunbeamsDraught Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes
“With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.” FeelsChildrenEndsTalkingTakenStrangeLimitsTerrorCommittedCeaseJustifyInterventionViolationReassuring Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.” IfsWellsStatesCareTakenStrangeBrilliantSubtleIowa Author:Gertrude Stein
“When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.” GivingBelieveKindMayLittlesArtI CanBookSeemsRememberYoungMotherWishBitsNaturalAttentionTakenStrangeExerciseLogicDiscriminationLogicalMicroscopesSurpassingBotany Author:William Stanley Jevons
“It's a very weird thing to know where you want to be in life and all of a sudden to actually have taken some real steps is a very strange feeling. I've really done something that I'm proud of.” KnowsWantRealDoneFeelingsStepsTakenStrangeProudWeird Things Author:Sophia Bush
“In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.” DoneProblemGovernmentPoliticalValuesTakenIgnoranceStrangeAreasRootsMethodInstitutionsEducationalAccomplishArrangementsThings DoneStrange ThingsIlliteracyGreat ValueThoughtlessness Author:Richard Mitchell