Corner Table at the Naked Eye: Joseph Conrad

Sunday, December 06, 2020

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad was famous for his sea stories. One of the first "crossover" writers from my earliest reading years as I left Tarzan, Clemens and Stevenson etc, behind.

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Quotes by the Quoteblokes.

Even oblivion needs existence.

Nothing exists by itself or in a vacuum.

Existence must create to realize itself.

This generation is entering the digitized world.

Little can be proved if even quantum and astrophysics cannot agree. Without all the facts we depend on faith for every decision.

Waiting for proof we never quite get it. If satisfied we got it then we can be fooled since changing senses depend on proofs changing.

There are two kinds of people, those born crazy and those driven crazy by those born crazy.

Going to college is like being in your Mother's arms.

A hospital is where germs go. If you have to go to a hospital too, make sure you get well first, or you might not make it through.

The truth cannot be told by those who know. Jesse Livermore

Which man is worse off? The one who tells a lie or the one who believes it?

A penny saved is a penny earned, so that you will be penny wise and pound foolish.

In stocks take your losses quickly and let your profits run, until they too are losses, then take them.

If there is No essential Exit then there must have been No existential Entrance, so how did we get in here?

Since only belief pleases God, if doubt cannot completely attack belief at the root for all time, then doubt will settle for attacking any flowering of belief for today.

A man cannot smell his own stink. Gordon W Corkum

If a man takes an offense he is by definition an offensive person.

No one really knows what time truly is.

Tell us how you define responsibility and one can tell all there is to know about you.

If you cannot define God you are not defining anything.

Spencer Corkum for the Quoteblokes

Sunday, December 06, 2020

Joseph Conrad

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