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What We Cry, What We Contend For, In Our World Of Toil And Blood, It All Lies Beneath The Notice Of The Hacker We Call God.
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What we cry, what we contend for, in our world of toil and blood, it
all lies beneath the notice of the hacker we call God.
-- Thomas Pynchon, "Vineland", 1990
Related:
What we Are is God's give to us. What we Become is our gift to God.
What lies before us and what lies behind us.... are small matters compared to what lies within us.
..and when we bring what lies within into the world... miracles happen! -- Henry David Thoreau...
What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born, to die?
-- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- The World...
Thy leaf has perish'd in the green, And while we breathe beneath the sun, The world, which credits what is done, Is cold to all that might have been.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- lxxv, Stanza 4...
SMILEY :} What should we call these? (what?)
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.
The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient....
All we know is the phenomenon: we spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information.
This seems to be our most urgent biological functio...
Learn what we should learn; do what we should do; be what we should be. -- Thomas S. Monso
Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand. -- George Santayana