Tuesday 20 December 2022

We may entirely lose Tuesday while airborne if we get on the next flight due that pesky international dateline, but hate to eschew an opportunity to write something on a day that doesn't really exist for us. This is akin to claiming 29 February on a non-leap year. The date is real enough somewhere, sometime, just not here and now. Not to worry, we can make it up with two of a different day upon return. Messes with your mind doesn't it?

Since events require placement in time and "today" is somewhat theoretical, let's just remain mental (philosophical, in this case, not necessarily crazy) and reflect on a few interesting quotes.

�"Thinking is man�'s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed."
- Ayn Rand

"If you�'re gullible enough to believe one load of evidence-free nonsense you are well primed to believe another."
- Richard Dawkins

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe... But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
- Rudyard Kipling, 1935

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
- Charles Mackay

�"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken."
- Carl Sagan

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
- Oscar Wilde

"Whenever I assume that the welfare of others is my problem I am, perforce, saying that their welfare is not their problem. I am denying to them self-responsibility, the most precious of human possessions."
- Leonard Read

�"You can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.�"
�-- Ayn Rand

"Be Yourself. Everyone else is already taken"
- Oscar Wilde

And finally, of course:

"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"
- Philip G. Hamerton

Jack & Jan