The Good Life

"The aim of politics should be to make the lives of individuals as good as possible. ... The problem of politics is to adjust the relations of human beings in such a way that each severally may have as much of good in his existence as possible. And this problem requires that we should first consider what it is we think good in the individual life."
-Bertrand Russell Political Ideals

Constraints of the Past and Current

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Rationality or Actuality

"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational."
-G.W.F. Hegel

Computers can be completely Truthful?

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
-Isaac Asimov

Reasoning

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Liberty

"Liberty ... is ... the absence of coercion."
-Jeremy Bentham

Nonsense

"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."
-Bertrand Russell

Games

"so much time wasted playing games with love"
-Lenny Kravitz (from It Ain't Over Till It's Over)

Lies

"lies come in, that's where the drama begins..."
-The Roots (lyrics from You Got Me)

Noise

"Noise is a cruel ruler who is always imposing curfews, while stillness and quiet break open the vintage bottles, awake the real band."
-Hafez

Chert o Pert

"Why just ask the donkey in me to speak to the donkey in you, when I have so many other beautiful animals and brilliant colored birds inside that are all longing to say something wonderful and exciting to your heart? Let's open all the locked doors upon our eyes that keep us from knowing the Intelligence that begets love and a more lively and satisfying conversation with the Friend."
- Hafez