Chess permits freedom of permutations within a framework of set rules and prescribed movements. Because a chess player cannot move absolutely as he likes, either in terms of the rules or in terms of the exigencies of the particular game, has he no freedom of move? The separate games of chess I play with existence has different rules from your and every other game; the only similarity is that each of our games always has rules. The gifts, inherited and acquired, that are special to me are the rules of the game; and the situation I am in at any given moment is the situation of the game. My freedom is the choice of action and the power of enactment I have within the rules and situation of the game.
- Fowles, 1964, The Aristos
If a jogger runs at the speed of sound, can he still hear his Walkman?- George Carlin
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. - John Lancaster Spalding
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.-Albert Einstein
"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen'."
- Jerry Falwell, said after the Sept 11th attacks.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Chinese proverb
Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgement. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education. - Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile
