Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Personal-pan epigrams (XXVI)


A selection of tasty, toasty  morsels  of fresh-baked wisdom.

The Metapenguin, a literary submersible, trolling the dark and troublous waters of the lesser-known works of G.K. Chesterton, has unearthed a rich vein of hitherto-unsuspected monostichs. 
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The word “cause”    is an altar  to an unknown god.
-- Wm. James
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A man bites down on a bad bagel, goes berseerk, slays six;  a flutter of Twitter swirls around the Bagel Problem, the National Association of Bagel Bakers weighs in;  eventually recipes are exchanged and everyone forgets the whole thing.
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“Che sera sera” is a truth of logic, not a version of determinism.
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Gödel himself  did not draw any meretricious philosophical or televisable conclusions from this calculational oddity;  he just said, “Tiens!  A loop solution to the Einstein equations,” and went back to his real work.
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Meet the Monotheme
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