Phil Mathies

“My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)." By this, he means that we require a larger reading of the human past, of our relations with each other, the universe and God, a retelling of our older tales to encompass many truths and to let us grow with change.”
― Neil Postman, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future

“it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy / The Case of Wagner