Lewis

FAVORITE QUOTES: "Without music, life would be a mistake." -- Nietzsche; "Cogito ergo sum." -- Descartes; "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." -- Walt Whitman; "Wer nicht von dreitausend Jahren sich weiß Rechenschaft zu geben, bleib im Dunkeln, unerfahren mag Tag zu Tage leben." -- Goethe; "I am torn by passions which would crush everything around me. Each moment I should like to pulverize the whole human race, and then fling myself into the chaos." -- Klinger, from Sturm und Drang; "I'm so far behind, I think I'm first." -- Michael Monroe; "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." -- Shakespeare, from Macbeth; "Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo." -- St. Augustine; "By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy, if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." -- Socrates