Subject: Viridian Note 00026: Viridian Aphorisms Key concepts: aphorisms, table of contents, Viridian Ranking Attention Conservation Notice: The aphorisms may be tempting, but most of this Note is housekeeping. Links: www.bespoke.org/viridian Entries in the "Big Mike" Viridian Design Contest: ********************************************************* The Viridian "Big Mike" Design Contest is now officially closed. A winner will be announced shortly. ********************************************************* http://www.pinknoiz.com/viridian/logos.html http://www.spaceways.de/BigMike/Mike.html http://weber.u.washington.edu/~r1ddl3r/bigmike.html http://powerbase-alpha.com/bigmike http://rampages.onramp.net/~jzero/ http://www.well.com/conf/mirrorshades http://www.57thstreet.com/viridian/ http://www.ioc.net/~bini/bigmike.htm http://www.pcnet.com/~thallad/mike.htm http://www.golden.net/~eli/viridian/ http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~smcginni/big-mike/big-mike.html and http://www.karmanaut.com/viridian/big.mike/ Attention warning: Interactive 3D "Big Mike" animation may baffle some browsers. and, just under the wire: http://www.nonsensical.com/viridian/ ****************** Viridian Aphorisms ****************** Source: sent in by various chevron-bearing Viridians, many of whom seem to have a distinct fondness for Nietszche. "Every past is worth condemning." Friedrich Nietzsche "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." Alfred North Whitehead "It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties." Alfred North Whitehead "What experience and history teach is this-that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it." G. W. F. Hegel "The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact." Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi "History is the most dangerous of all the products of the chemical laboratory of our mind. It stimulates dreaming, it intoxicates nations, it generates in them false memories, exaggerates their reflexes, irritates their old wounds, deprives them of peace and infects them with megalomania or mania of persecution." Paul Valery "The sudden political revolutions which strike the historian most forcibly are often the least important. The great revolutions are those of manners and thought. The true revolutions, those which transform the destinies of people, are most frequently accomplished so slowly that the historians can hardly point to their beginnings." Gustave LeBon "There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly." Publius Terentius Afer "Man sieht in die Zukunft == und nicht in die Vergangenheit == wenn man seine Kinder anschaut!" Gruene slogan "In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule." Friedrich Nietzsche And a few others, from *THE VIKING BOOK OF APHORISMS: A Personal Selection* by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, 1962: "His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last." CHAMFORT "The ardor chills us which we do not share." PATMORE "The motive for a deed usually changes during its performance; at least, after the deed has been done, it seems quite different." HEBBEL "All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last." PROUST People who send us an aphorism expressing a Viridian sensibility will receive a chevron >^<. ********************** Table of Contents 1-25 ********************** Viridian Notes 1-25 (complete with titles, some retroactively bestowed): 00001: Viridian Design Speech 00002: Viridian List Mechanics 00003: Viridian Design Principles 00004: Historical Awareness 00005: Viridian Aesthetics 00006: Floods 1 00007: Floods 2 00008: The Science Press on Global Warming 00009: The Science Press on Global Warming, Rewritten 00010: Comments from Viridians 00011: Viridian Mascot Contest 00012: Web Links 00013: Link Criticism 00014: Remembrance Agents 00015: Weather Violence 00016: Bio-Refineries 00017: Viridian Aphorisms 00018: The Viridian Model Family 00019: Viridian Domains of Interest 00020: Energy Reform, the Swedish "Solution" 00021: The World Is Becoming Uninsurable, Part 1 00022: The World Is Becoming Uninsurable, Part 2 00023: The World is Becoming Uninsurable, Part 3 00024: Kelly's Koan 00025: German Greens ******************** Viridian Ranking System ******************** The Viridian Ranking System has been hand-created with a vintage fountain pen and fine art paper. 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