Monday, November 19, 2012

best - waiting for godot

VLADIMIR:  Say you are, even if it's not true.
ESTRAGON:  What am I to say?
VLADIMIR:  Say, I am happy.
ESTRAGON:  I am happy.
VLADIMIR:  So am I.
ESTRAGON:  So am I.
VLADIMIR:  We are happy.
ESTRAGON:  We are happy. (Silence.) What do we do now, now that we are happy?

VLADIMIR:  Wait for Godot.

Beckett, Waiting for Godot, 66.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

best - Hume - A Treatise of Human Understanding

"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."  Hume, A Treatise of Human Understanding, 298.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

best - Tomas Sedlacek - Economics of Good and Evil

"[I]t is in friendship . . . ideas and deeds are frequently performed or created that together can altogether change the face of society.  Friendship can go against an ingrained system in paces where an individual does not have the courage to do so himself or herself."

Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Yeah Elizabeth Warren!  See you in the White House in 2016?