Idle Thought Ponderer Gifts

"Your faucet is running."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"We'll destroy it to the ground ... ...and then..."

Cellphone Islands

Crowded Ice Fishing

"Lately, I've been trying to spend less time staring at the glowing orb."

"Look, if I had all the answers, would I be living alone on the top of a mountain?"

"Sitting here with you each day at sunset reminds me I have to get a job."

'Sometimes, in the stillness and warmth of an afternoon sun, I can almost hear interest compounding.'

are you so alienated from any real form of community that you can no longer distinguish between belonging and conforming?

'Yes sir, Thoreau had the right idea.'

"Have you tried turning off your conscious mind and then turning it back on again?"

Fish sleeps while counting worms that jump over a fence.

"Gotta cut back on my binge thinking."

"You what? Well, you darn well ought to have a guilt complex"

'I warned him that this was no place for a guy with inner-ear problems.'

'Actually, this is when I'm at my most creative, when I don't seem to be doing anything.'

'How come there aren't any peace heroes?'

'Do you ever wonder about this whole 'money' thing?'

Never being able to think of the right thing to say at the right time phobia.

"What advantage do I have? What do I do better than others? What do people see as strengths?"

'Hurry up and enjoy your life as a pensioner! Three.. Two.. One..'

'Well, in my case, Muzak DOESN'T help with meditation!'

"People are crazy."

Man looking at a vending machine with a hand sticking out of it and a sign that reads "Put'er there buddy".

'Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?'

The thinker.

"While you've been making your mind up, the Early Bird special when up three bucks."

'The mind-body problem is best expressed in the formulation...OOf!'

"One thing I'll say for us, Meyer--we never stooped to popularizing science."

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy Department - Are You Really Here?

If a tweet is sent out and no one signs up to read it, does it exist? Happens millions of times a day.

A tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it.

'He's a man of few words. Words to the editor not included.'