"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unreasonable. There is someting unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intelect." Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
". . .he wrestled with his conscience and the result was a draw." Attrib, Paddy Devlin
"We had that devine harbinger of summer, warm rain." The Irish Times, 3 April 1985, Kevin Myers
"Exmainations and all that surround them are such a strange, traumatic thing in Irish life that one approaches the subject with a certain ammount of trepidation. In the reverence for the examination, one feels, lies, if anywhere, the heart of the matter, the key to those mysterious aspects of the Irish charachter which have baffled friend and foe alike. Whatever happened to the race, whatever the explanation of the contrast between the gay, anarchic Irishman of legend and the permanent and pensionable fellow he apparently all too easily becomes, the answer may lie in the eagerness with which he submits himself to a series of scholastic examinations, the reverence with which he regards the results, the almost religious awe with which he accepts them as a lifelong arbiter of ability, charachter and consequent happiness." An Irish Eye, Anthony Cronin
"In all of the Oriental religions great value is placed on the Sanskrit doctrine of "Tat Tuam asi", Thou art that, which asserts that everything you think you are and everything you think you perceive are undivided. To realise fully this lack of division is to become enlightened." Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"Einstein said, "Evolution has shown that at any given moment out of all conceivable constructions a single one has always proved itself superior to the rest", . . .did Einstein really mean to state that truth was a function of time?" Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow. But of course, without the top you can't have any sides. It's the top that defines the sides. So on we go . . . . ." Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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