Tao Te Ching

“The development of journalism made it essential that by far the greater part of what is said or done in the world should be so ephemeral as to take itself away quickly; it could keep for 24 hours but not for a week. If that long, it would prevent people from going on to something else.”

— Samuel Butler 1835 – 1902 CE via Shan Dao
Iconoclastic philosopher, artist, composer, author, and evolutionary theorist
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