Jon Stout

“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

“The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.”
― Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir

“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”
― John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

“Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
I and this mystery here we stand.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself