https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:34:10 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/38323/ https://wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/38323/#respond Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:12:15 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=38323 How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 3 “Reading” (1854)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/38323/feed/ 0 38323 https://wist.info/orwell-george/19106/ https://wist.info/orwell-george/19106/#respond Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:08:07 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=19106 Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. […] This habit of mind leads also to the belief that things will happen more quickly, completely, and catastrophically than they ever do in practice. The rise and fall of empires, the disappearance of cultures and religions, are expected to happen with earthquake suddenness, and processes which have barely started are talked about as though they were already at an end.

George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” Polemic Magazine
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