Quote by H. P. Lovecraft on Human Forms in Other Worlds
“To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.”
H. P. Lovecraft
Poetic Techniques in Heroic Poems – H. P. Lovecraft Quote
“The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.”
H. P. Lovecraft
Four Types of Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
“There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.”
H. P. Lovecraft
Harry Browne on Government, Poverty and Morality
“Conservatives say the government can’t end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can’t make people be moral, but they believe it can end poverty. Neither group attempts to explain why government is so clumsy and destructive in one area but a paragon of efficiency and benevolence in the other.”
Harry Browne
Exercise is Bunk – Henry Ford
“Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.”
Henry Ford
“The Quickest Way of Ending a War” – George Orwell
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
George Orwell
“Human Beings Want to Be Good” – George Orwell
“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
George Orwell
Ivan Illich on Iatrogenic Illness and Medicine
“The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized …..One out of every five patients admitted to a typical research hospital acquires an iatrogenic (Caused by the treatment process) disease, one case in thirty leading to death. Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come from diagnostic procedures.”
Ivan Illich
Human Nature and Evolution – Noam Chomsky
“Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.”
Noam Chomsky
Without Music, Life Would Be a Mistake – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche