[b]Edgar Allan Poe
…the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed, of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification.[/b]
You know, if this Deity actually does exist.
I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.
Probably including Michael Cohen.
Right, Don?
The principle of vis inertiae…seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more true in the former, that a large body is with more difficulty set in motion than a smaller one, and that its subsequent momentum is commensurate with this difficulty, than it is, in the latter, that intellects of the vaster capacity, while more forcible, more constant, and more eventful in their movements than those of inferior grade, are yet the less readily moved, and more embarrassed, and full of hesitation in the first few steps of their progress…
Hell, that’s proven here on almost any given day.
Well, whatever it means anyway.
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities—that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.
We’ll need some examples of course.
…in general, from the violation of a few simple laws of humanity arises the wretchedness of mankind - that as a species we have in our possession the as yet unwrought elements of content - and that, even now, in the present darkness and madness of all thought on the great question of social condition, it is not impossible that man, the individual, under certain unusual and highly fortuitous conditions, may be happy.
Anyone here ever been?
So resolute is the world to despise anything which carries with it an air of simplicity.
And not just just world one suspects.