WIST Quotations Has Moved!Feb 19, 2025

A quotation from Montaigne

So it is no good our mounting on stilts, for even on stilts we have to walk with our own legs; and upon the most exalted throne in the world it is still our own bottom that we sit on.
 
[Si, avons nous beau monter sur des échasses, car sur des échasses encore faut-il marcher de nos jambes. Et au plus élevé trône du monde, si ne sommes assis que sur notre cul.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1587), “Of Experience [De l’Experience], Essays, Book 3, ch. 13 (3.13) (1595) [tr. Cohen (1958)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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WIST Quotations moves again!Apr 26, 2024

A quotation from #Gaiman, Neil:

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Some years ago, I was lucky enough invited to a gathering of great and good people: artists and scientists, writers and discoverers of things. And I felt that at any moment they would realise that I didn’t qualify to be there, among these people who had really done things. On my second or…
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https://wist.info/gaiman-neil/38934/

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Blog entry (2017-05-12) - Gaiman, Neil | WIST Quotations

Some years ago, I was lucky enough invited to a gathering of great and good people: artists and scientists, writers and discoverers of things. And I felt that at any moment they would realise that I didn't qualify to be there, among these people who had really done things. On…

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Marcus Marcius MarcellusDec 3, 2022

Things to do #InsteadOfWorldCup, 14/29:

Listen to an #AI simulate a conversation between #German #filmmaker #Werner #Herzog and #philosophe #slovène #Slavoj “Who?” #Žižek.

You can listen to it until this abomination of a football tournament has ended.

Indeed, you can listen to it until the universe achieves heat death.

Boost and add your own!

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https://infiniteconversation.com

The Infinite Conversation

An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek.

gregJan 18, 2019
one of the best moments in my life was when a rich woman in a fur coat came into the bookstore at which i worked and pretended to contemplate a grotesque thomas #kinkade painting that was ironically on the wall. she then sighed and said meaningfully, "ah.. my favorite painter.. thomas kindale.." #art #pretension #painting