Culture
Momentous Eventus: Old New Year Edition
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” Albert Einstein.
January 14, 2022
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” Albert Einstein.
“The meeting of two eternities, the past and future….is precisely the present moment.”
Henry David Thoreau.
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”
Rainer Maria Rilke.
“Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.”
Jesus Christ.
“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”
G. K. Chesterton.
“People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
“Time is a flat circle. Everything we have done or will do we will do over and over and over again—forever.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (again).
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” William Faulkner.
“I think toilets are more important than temples.”
Narendra Damodardas Modi (current Prime Minister of India).