Steve Kalinowski

“They asked for Plato's assistance. He told them: "You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God." ... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.”
― Mulla Sadra, Breaking the Idols of Ignorance: Admonition of the Soi Disant Sufi

“A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big.”
― Scott Edward Shjefte

“And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose.”
― Gary T. Smith, Caribbean Gauntlet