Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- In fact I don't think that it is necessary to make mistakes to learn. But if we don't learn from mistakes we don't gain worthwhile experinece- (my dictum 😉 )
Originally posted by Ponderable But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
Shouldn't that be challenging for a chess player?
No, because we don't play on faces.
Oscar, clever as he was, had his own limitations. One of the greatest (and it contributed much to his downfall) was his tendency to attribute more importance to society's "opinions" than to actual thought. (Which is not saying that he agreed with it... but he thought it was important.)
I'm guessing he called it a tragedy just to make the saying fit together better.
My mom gave her best to her family and had an incredible tolerance for my dad, who was away often while I was growing up. But I was always my dad's girl.
Went to see Salome at the citizen theatre in Glasgow. Salome was a dusky maiden dressed in a wedding dress with Christmas tree lights attatched to her dress. People from above the stage threw sand some of which landed on the audience. Don't claim to have understood it, but it was interesting never the less.