Wouldn't it be nice....?

Ah, if only we all had Descartes' fortitude!!

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

~Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician(1596-1650)


A friend loaned me the book, A Voice Crying in the Darkness, by Edward Abbey. It is a collection of thoughts on various subjects. Many of them are quite insightful and/or interesting. For example,

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.