Pair Of Fools Podcast

Go on Etsy and you'll find quotations of all sorts emblazoned on pillows and painted on canvases. Doug and Caren talk through our culture's fascination with wise or motivational quotations. What function do they serve? After an epigraph from Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, we delve into the good and bad. What is the relation of the deep wisdom of the Beatitudes, for example, and a vacuous contemporary slogan? What need in us to these sayings serve? On the troubling side, how might they serve for indoctrination and social control? We end with our Top 10 Quotations.