Sublime

Irresponsibility of Thought.

Milo quickly pulled the rule book from his pocket, opened to the page, and read, “Ordinance 175389-J: It shall be unlawful, illegal, and unethical to think, think of thinking, surmise, presume, reason, meditate, or speculate while in the Doldrums. Anyone breaking this law shall be severely punished!” “That’s a ridiculous law,” said Milo, quite indi

Because the ancient instinct and humour of humanity have always told them, under whatever conventions, that the conventions of complex cities were less really healthy and happy than the customs of the countryside.

live upon their wits (or not so much, perhaps, upon the presence of their own wits as upon the absence of wits in other people)

ordinary people are really extraordinarily strange.

The inherited stupidity of the race--sound English common sense he jovially termed it--was shown to be the proper bulwark for society.

“So the bartender points at the piano in the corner says, ‘Go ahead.’ Guy puts the octopus on the piano stool—Pianoctamus! Pianoctamum Bailey!—octopus flips up the lid, plays a few scales, then lays out a little étude on the piano.”

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.

that the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.