Quotes Journal

 --- Anneliese Burgess in  'n Wrok lê en wag soos 'n pofadder agter die besemkas, ... , Binne+Land, July 2026 Excerpts 'n Histor...

 --- Correspondent Matt Bell in New Scientist , responding to a back page's question, "Why do seals have such cute faces?"  Ex...

 --- L. M. Sacasas, in  Your AI Is Not a Tool , The Convivial Society , Jun 2026 Excerpts Your AI is not a tool. It is an environment, and y...

 ---  Mark Fenster , quoted in  New testimony in Epstein case could address persistent conspiracy theories , CSMonitor , May 2026 Excerpt Su...

 Anneliese Burgess, in  ’n Slordige muisvoël met geel oë in die tyd van Groot Moeilikheid , Binne+Land, Jun 2026 Excerpt Hulle was altyd swa...

 ---  Chris Brink , in The Idea of Academic Responsibility (forthcoming), quoted by Nina Overton in  Oor universiteite, voetbalklubs en ubun...

 --- Russian proverb quoted by Laura Spinney in Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (2025 : 275)

 --- Rebecca Newberger in conversation with David Edwards about Mattering , Philosophy Bites podcast, June 2026 Four major strategies: Socia...

 --- Sally Adee, in a New Scientist review of  Poisonous People by Leanne ten Brinke, March 2026 Excerpt Ten Brinke doesn’t promise low-ef...

 --- Jasmine Sun, in The independent writer’s advantage in the age of AI, Jun 2026 Subtitle Jasmine Sun on why secrets, live presence, and a...

 --- L.M. Sacasas, in Do Not Resign From Life , The Convivial Society : Vol. 7, No. 3 (2026) Excerpt Oddly enough, it turns out that loudly ...

 --- Henry Beston in The Outermost House (1929), quoted by Anneliese Burgess in  Wat die water aan ons doen , Binne+Land, May 2026 Quote Th...

 --- Mathematician Paul Erdős, quoted passim, I couldn't track down a source.  In this case, I saw it in Ben Cohen's WSJ stor y on t...

 --- J.M. Coetzee, in an interview with David Attwell,  Doubling the Point (1994), quoted by Piet Croucamp in  Die subversiewe J.M. Coetzee...

 --- John Gardner, in The Art of Fiction , quoted by Piet Croucamp in  Die subversiewe J.M. Coetzee + niemandsland + die veldsoirée in Nxuba...

---  Shashank V. Joshi , Stanford, senior associate vice provost for academic well-being in the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate...

 --- hikikomorphism on Bluesky Post If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it'...

 --- Nick Pettigrew on  Bluesky  via New Scientist 's Feedback column, 25 Feb 2025 Post: I'm convinced AI is our generation's ra...

 --- Adam Smith, from Paragraph I.III.29 in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , quoted by Russ Roberts in the EconTalk podcast, Adam Smith'...

 --- Sara Bronin , from a Bon Voyage speech to Rhodes scholars (2024?), The American Oxonian , Fall 2025, Volume CXII, Number 3 In context M...

 --- Norbert Wiener, "God and Golem, Inc.," 1964, quoted by Etymonline The future offers very little hope for those who expect tha...

 --- Robert Frost, quoted by Anneliese Burgess in  Skuld, skaamte en die krag van 'n geheime innerlike lewe , March 2026

 --- Jim Mattis, quoted by Ned Temko in  What constitutes victory in an ‘asymmetric’ war with Iran? , CS Monitor, March 2026 In context Mr. ...

 --- Nick Ormrod , quoted in  A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw by  Ciarán Gilligan-Lee in New Scienti...

 --- Joel Halldorf,  Professor of Church History at University College Stockholm,  Not So Secular Sweden , Comment magazine, January 2026, ...

 --- Samuel Mead,  https://www.instagram.com/samuelmeadarts/ , Instagram post , 13 February 2026 Voice over transcript (punctuation added) W...

 --- Brian Eno,  What art does, an unfinished theory (2025: 111) Excerpt Politics all too often makes the individual feel left outside with...

 --- Andy Warhol From Goodreads , no citation An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for ...

 --- Craig McCaw, quoted by Tren Griffin, in The 1990s Telecom Bubble. What Can We Learn? , November 2017 In context The $14 billion dollar ...

 Guy Davenport, from The Geography of the Imagination: 40 Essays (2024:98), in the essay “Prehistoric Eyes” Excerpt Man, it would seem, doe...

 --- Paul Kingsnorth, in AI Demonic: A Spiritual Exploration of AI , From the Nov/Dec, 2023 issue of Touchstone Excerpt For the last two yea...

 Ecclesiastes 4:1 to 4:3 . Links to BibleHub parallel translations. New International Version: Again I looked and saw all the oppression th...

 --- Sarah Housley, in an opinion piece for New Scientist,  We have run out of new visions of the future. This needs to change , Sep 2025 In...

 --- Irving Yalom , quoted by Anneliese Burgess in  Oor die lewe se dwarswinde , Binne+Land , 9 November 2025 Burgess writes Ek vind Irvin Y...

 --- Angus Fletcher, in conversation with Russ Roberts about his book, Primal Intelligence , EconTalk, Nov 3, 2025 ,  11:25 Russ Roberts : B...

 --- Kobayashi Issa, trans. Sam Hamill, quoted in Joel Pulliam, 45. Tokyo Cemetaries In full 世の中は地獄の上の花見哉 ( Google Translate ) in the midst ...

 --- via Feedback, New Scientist , April 2025 : Feedback is irresistibly reminded of Goodhart’s law: the notion that, once you start using a...

 --- Benjamin de Casseres , according to QuoteInvestigator . Often misattributed to various people, including Lewis Carroll and Jules de Gau...

 --- Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowduhury, a former lawmaker from the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, quoted in  Students toppled a dictat...

 --- @thestoicmanual , post  on X, quoted by Anneliese Burgess, " 'n Week van wolke, ... ," Binne+Land, 28 Jun 2025 A beautifu...

 --- Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) American politician and author, Godkin Lecture, Harvard (1985) ( Source via Wist )

 --- English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-90), quoted by Joseph Epstein in  The Unbearable Ubiquity of Trump , WSJ, 5 Sep 2025 From E...

 --- attrib. to the Buddha by Jack Kornfield, cited to p. 28 in Kornfield's Buddha’s Little Instruction Book by Fake Buddha Quotes , vi...

 --- Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, part 3, prop. 6, quoted in Wikipedia/conatus Excerpt from the  R. H. M. Elwes translation on Gutenberg.org VI. ...

 --- Will Parker Anderson, in  How much content should you give away? , Writers Circle on  Substack , 9 august 2025 Excerpt Your greatest ob...

--- (ascr. to) Anthropologist Matt Cartmill, e.g. by Quodid Full quote As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certaint...

 --- Via Mark Crawford, 7 Aug 2025: when juvenile birds start singing again in the fall. Mating is tied to day length, and so it feels like ...

 --- poet Mary Oliver, from " Sometimes " quoted Geraldine Brooks in Memorial Days, mentioned in Karen Campbell's review, A no...

--- Thaddeus Johnson, a former police officer and now a senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice, quoted in Henry Gass & Patrik ...

--- cultural historian Tom Wright talking to David Runciman, The History of Bad Ideas: Charisma , 26 June 2025, at time code 2:40 Excerpt T...