© Roger M Tagg 2009 revised 2010
Welcome to FROLIO – a new attempt to merge philosophy and the "semantic web" . This website is under continuing development.
This is a very personal collection, illustrating all my biases and prejudices. It is not yet complete.
| Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail | Bible, 1 Corinthians |
| Whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely and of good report ... think on these things | Bible, Philippians |
| God of the Gaps | CA Coulson |
| To live at ease, and not be bound to think | J Dryden, Mac Flecknoe |
| All generalizations are dangerous, even this one | A Dumas, Jr |
| Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous | George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) |
| In the 17th century, a dissociation of sensibility set in | TS Eliot, Metaphysical Poets |
| Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks | TS Eliot, Sweeny Agonistes |
| Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm | RW Emerson, Essay on Circles |
| Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist | RW Emerson, Essay on Self-reliance |
| I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching | RW Emerson, Essay on Self-reliance |
| Si jeunesse savait; si vieillesse pouvait (if youth knew, if age could) | H Estienne, Les Prémices |
| Man has created God in his own image | L Feuerbach |
| Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality | H Fielding, Joseph Andrews |
| For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the golden road to Samarkand | JE Flecker, Hassan |
| He that lives upon hope will die fasting | B Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac |
| Man is a tool-making animal | B Franklin, attr Boswell |
| Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction | T Fuller, Holy State |
| Dare to be different, devoted, directed. | Headmaster of Uppingham school, England, in a sermon c 1965 |
| All philosophies have some truth - where they fail is in insisting that all the others are wrong | Gottfried Leibniz |
| The future's not ours to see - qué serà serà | Popular song |
| Seek knowledge - even unto China | Prophet Mohammad |
| England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours | G Santayana, The British Character |
| Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain | F Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans |
| All professions are conspiracies against the laity | GB Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma |
| Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few | GB Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionaries |
| He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches | GB Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionaries |
| Pickering: "Have you no morals, man?" Doolittle: "Can't afford them, guvnor." | GB Shaw, Pygmalion |
| The divisions ... between our individual interests and the interests of society will all disappear, Marx says, once we get rid of the economic structure which leads us to compete in the market place. It seems, unfortunately, that this is false. | P Singer, 1987 |
| Good God, said God, I've got my work cut out | JC Squire, The Dilemma |
| To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive | RL Stevenson, El Dorado |
| Believing, where we cannot prove | A Tennyson, In Memoriam |
| Don't throw out the baby with the bath water | Trad? |
| God does not reveal himself in the facts | L Wittgenstein |
| Language misleads us into applying a picture that doesn't fit | L Wittgenstein |
| What is good is also divine | L Wittgenstein |
Index to more of these diatribes
Some of these links may be under construction – or re-construction.
This version updated on 1st February 2010
If you have constructive suggestions or comments, please contact the author rogertag@tpg.com.au .