Yogi

LISTEN. It's that time again, time for end-of-semester parting words. "It got late real early" (as the old Yankee may or may not have said*) this Fall, since we'll not be re-convening in December. Maybe I should scour the Yogi files for other good words to end on. But I don't think I can do better than this:

"Formula for our happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal,” wrote Nietzsche. But what did he know of happiness? Less, possibly, than Grandfather Philosophy. He sees the connection between happiness, hope, goals, and another Yogi-ism: it ain't over 'til it's over. 

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*"I really didn't say everything I said." You can quote him on that.

Don't you love that Yogi has a Learning Center!

 

You really can "observe a lot by watching."

More Yogi-isms...

Yogi didn't say, but would in his own way have understood:

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”

And, again: 

Let _my_ last word, then, speaking in the name of intellectual philosophy, be... "There is no conclusion. What has concluded, that we might conclude in regard to it? There are no fortunes to be told, and there is no advice to be given.--Farewell!" William James, "A Pluralistic Mystic"

And finally, also from Willy James: "Keep your health, your splendid health. It's worth all the truths in the firmament."

"Believe that life is worth living, and

your belief will help create the fact."