Polojko's Blog! – Page 174 – "The only person you can't learn from is yourself"

Catch 22

The curse of proletarians: when I have time, I have no money, and vice versa, and so on, and so forth.

Similarity

Hemorrhoids and tonsils … There are some similarities here.

Experience

As we get older, we have fewer and fewer original ideas. Experience destroys originality.

Experience

Every experience has an intrinsic value… unless it’s deadly.

Earned

Love, respect, trust… can only be earned, not demanded.

Introspection

Same as with psychology, the ultimate limitation of human science is that the observer is simultaneously a part of the object of observation, hence it can’t be objective and/or possible.

3D

The best 3D screen out there – your window.

And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles; he has not lived long—he has existed long. For what if you should think that that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about.

– Seneca, On the shortness of life

Procrastination

Procrastination is an unconscious wish to prolong life.

Wise

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. – Tobias Smollett