The Philistine Review

“Remind me to write a popular article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.�
- Jubal Harshaw in “Stranger in a Strange Land”  Robert Heinlein

“We can resolve the immediate problem, and move on, [but] new problems will arise. We muddle through; we don’t solve them because we can’t.� Harvard Law School professor Mark Roe

“the pursuit of self-interest does not necessarily lead to overall economic efficiency� Stigliz

The journey not the arrival matters

T.S. Elliot

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving

Lao Tzu

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.

Philip K. Dick

I’ll play it first and you tell me what it is later.
Miles Davis

The way to do is to be.
Lao Tzu

…the bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic
humans very quickly, spurious humans, as fake as the data pressing them
from all sides. Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans
will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning
them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake
humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans.
Philip K. Dick

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Sir Isaac Newton

To see the world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower;
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence 1805

When you learn to distinguish between the container and the contents, you
will have attained wisdom.
Idries Shah

Man makes plans, God laughs.
the Koran