pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
pjthompson ([personal profile] pjthompson) wrote2012-01-10 09:50 am

We ourselves are the strange and miraculous

Random quote of the day:


“It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.”

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2012-01-10 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
What a marvelous image to accompany your quote.

So many miracles all about--we trip on them if we're not careful.

[identity profile] pjthompson.livejournal.com 2012-01-10 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
The quote is from the 18th century, so the image felt right.

So many miracles all about--we trip on them if we're not careful.

Indeed!