Benjamin De Casseres Professions : Journalist Born : April 3, 1873 Died : December 6, 1945 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Benjamin De Casseres Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead. Benjamin De Casseres parlor fame Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma. Benjamin De Casseres progress victory laughter Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in a match. The commonplace is the habitual, and the habitual is a mystery that has grown stale from sense-insistence. Life undulates; there is no such thing as a level; a straight line is a myth, and all directions are indirections. Benjamin De Casseres swimming cells eye My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese. Benjamin De Casseres atheist running philosophy Similar Authors Irving Bacheller journalist Bill Keller journalist Bob Woodward journalist Bolesław Prus journalist Buzz Bissinger journalist Burton Rascoe journalist All Authors