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2004

Years ago my mother used to say to me.. 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh-so-smart, or oh-so-pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart — I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. ~ Jimmy Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd in the film Harvey

• selected by Kalki

2005

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. ~ Otto von Bismarck (born 1 April 1815, and All Fools Day)

• selected by Kalki

2006

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. ~ Mark Twain (All Fool's Day/April Fools' Day)

• selected by Kalki

2007

Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. ~ Alexander Pope

• proposed by Kalki

2008

What is unique about the 'I' hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual 'I' is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered. ~ Milan Kundera (born 1 April 1929)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of their proper senses. Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity that they openly, and in sight of all, deny and desert their friend Truth. ~ William Harvey (born 1 April 1578)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2010

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. ~ Edmond Rostand

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. ~ Abraham Maslow

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to deal with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half. ~ Otto von Bismarck

• proposed by Zarbon

2013

The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals.

~ The Coen Brothers ~ in ~ The Big Lebowski ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

That so much time was wasted in this pain. Ten thousand years ago he might have let off down To not return again! A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips; The laughter sets him free. A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries. The Fool is me! And with one final shake of laughter Breaks his bonds. The nails fall skittering to marble floors. And Christ, knelt at the rail, sees miracle As Man steps down in amiable wisdom To give himself what no one else can give: His liberty.

~ Ray Bradbury ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

Now and then there's a fool such as I am over you. You taught me how to love And now you say that we are through. I'm a fool, but I'll love you dear Until the day I die Now and then there's a fool such as I.

~ Bill Trader ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

A commonmistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of completefools.

~ Douglas Adams ~ in ~ Mostly Harmless ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

All of us, if we are of reflective habit, like and admire men whose fundamental beliefs differ radically from our own. But when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or count himself lost. … All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

~ H. L. Mencken ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in ChristJesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

~ Paul of Tarsus ~ in ~ First Epistle to the Corinthians ~

• proposed by Kalki for this All Fool's DayEasterSunday.

2019

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2004

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on. ~ Robert Frost

• selected by Kalki

2005

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye. ~ Marvin Gaye (born 2 April 1939)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess. ~ Giacomo Casanova (born 2 April 1725)

• selected by Kalki

2007

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. ~ Kenneth Tynan

• proposed by Kalki

2008

Forgiveness is the offspring of a feeling of heroism, of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness, and still oftener of a natural desire for calm and quietness. Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. ~ Giacomo Casanova

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it. ~ Émile Zola (born 2 April 1840)

• proposed by Kalki

2010

My spirit to yours dear brother,
Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you,
I do not sound your name, but I understand you,
I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also,
That we all labor together transmitting the same charge and succession,
We few equals indifferent of lands, indifferent of times,
We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies,
Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men,
We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted,
We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side,
They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade,
Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,
Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.
~ Walt Whitman in 'To Him Who Was Crucified' in Leaves of Grass
(for Good Friday 2010, in both Western and Eastern Orthodox calculations)

• proposed by Kalki

2011

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. ~ Giacomo Casanova

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised. ~ Giacomo Casanova

• proposed by Zarbon

2013

You see, war is not the answer For only love can conquer hate. You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today.

~ Marvin Gaye ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion. The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the trulywise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

~ Giacomo Casanova ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2015

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greaterpower he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason. Reason is a particle of the Creator'sdivinity. When we use it with a spirit of humility and justice we are certain to please the Giver of that precious gift.

~ Giacomo Casanova ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2016

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

~ Kenneth Tynan ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance of the harm inflicted on him; forgiveness is the offspring of a feeling of heroism, of a nobleheart, of a generousmind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weakmemory, or of an easy carelessness, and still oftener of a naturaldesire for calm and quietness. Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

~ Giacomo Casanova ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2018

I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilisticdoctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothingwe can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of 'privilegeddespair.'

~ Kenneth Tynan ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

Allwriting is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speakfreely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.

~ Kenneth Tynan ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been. ~ William Hazlitt

• selected by Kalki

2005

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece. ~ Pope John Paul II (recent death)

• selected by Kalki

2006

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. ~ Washington Irving (born 13 April 1783)

• selected by Kalki

2007

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. ~ Washington Irving

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

Stretch or contract me, Thy poor debtor;
This is but tuning of my breast,
To make the music better.

Whether I fly with angels, fall with dust,
Thy hands made both, and I am there;
Thy power and love, my love and trust
Make one place ev'rywhere.

~ George Herbert ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. ~ 'Meggido Message' (misattributed to Edward Everett Hale)

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
~ Edward Everett Hale

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all. ~ Dora Russell

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures. ~ Boss Tweed

• proposed by Zarbon

2013

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

~ Dora Russell ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2014

Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education.

~ Dora Russell ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

Teach me, my God and King, In all things thee to see And what I do in any thing, To do it as for thee.

~ George Herbert ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else.

~ Jane Goodall ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2017

You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should actnow to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.

~ Jane Goodall ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2018

I think if we study the primates, we notice that a lot of these things that we value in ourselves, such as humanmorality, have a connection with primate behavior. This completely changes the perspective, if you start thinking that actually we tap into our biological resources to become moral beings. That gives a completely different view of ourselves than this nasty selfish-gene type view that has been promoted for the last 25 years.

~ Frans de Waal ~

• proposed by Kalki — but originally improperly selected as a quote of Jane Goodall, due to section with an interview with Frans de Waal, rather than Goodall, having been posted to her page.

2019

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts.

~ Jane Goodall ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

Where there is great love there are always miracles. ~ Willa Cather

• selected by Kalki

2005

It is possible and imperative that we learn
A brave and startling truth..
When we come to it
We must confess that we are the possible
We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world
That is when, and only when
We come to it.
~ Maya Angelou (born 4 April 1928)

• selected by Kalki

2006

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. ~ Sir Francis Drake (knighted 4 April 1581)

• selected by Kalki

2007

He who learns must suffer
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
And in our own despite, against our will,
Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
~ Aeschylus ~ (Quoted, in variant form, by Robert F. Kennedy in a speech, 4 April 1968, after learning of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., which occurred that day.)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

All we are saying is give peace a chance. ~ John Lennon (50th anniversary of the first use of what became the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament logo, and later the 'Peace symbol' in a march by the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War, 4 April 1958.)

• proposed by Kalki

2009

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men. ~ Black Elk

• proposed by Kalki

2010

If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. ~ Yeshua of Galilee (Jesus Christ) ~ For Easter Sunday 2010, in both Western and Eastern Orthodox calculations

• proposed by Kalki

2011

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
~ Maya Angelou ~

• proposed by Kalki

2012

Without music there can be no perfectknowledge, for there is nothing without it. For even the universe itself is said to have been put together with a certain harmony of sounds, and the very heavens revolve under the guidance of harmony. ~ Isidore of Seville

• proposed by Zarbon

2013

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

~ William Gladstone ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

~ Maya Angelou ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethicalideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is alwaysbeautiful.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

We never get anywhere in this world without the forces of history and individualpersons in the background helping us to get there. If you have the privilege of a fine education, well, you have it because somebody made it possible. If you have the privilege to gain wealth and a bit of the world’s goods, well, you have it because somebody made it possible. So don’t boast, don’t be arrogant. You, at that moment, rise out of your self-centeredness to the type of living that makes you an integrated personality.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

Our aim is to persuade. We adopt the means of non-violence because our end is a community at peace with itself. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts. We will always be willing to talk and seek faircompromise, but we are ready to suffer when necessary and even risk our lives to become witnesses to the truth as we see it. … But if physical death is the price that a man must pay to free his children and his white brethren from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing could be more redemptive. This is the type of soulforce that I am convinced will triumph over the physical force of the oppressor.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

• proposed by Kalki regarding the 50th anniversary of MLK's death, and the 60th anniversary of the first use of the ☮ Peace sign, in a CND march on this date in 1958.

2019

Freedom is inseparable from conscience. And even if it is true that all the ideas developed by the socialconsciousness are the product of evolution, conscience at least has nothing to do with the historic process. Conscience, both as a sense and as a concept, is a prioriimmanent in man, and shakes the very foundations of the society that has emerged from our ill-conceived civilisation.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. ~ C.S. Lewis

• selected by Kalki

2005

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. ~ Thomas Hobbes (born 5 April 1588)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thy selfe. ~ Thomas Hobbes (born 5 April 1588)

• selected by Kalki

2007

The world is fast learning that of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ~ Booker T. Washington (born 5 April 1856)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak. ~ Booker T. Washington

• proposed by Kalki

2009

God's own hand
Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him
The end of all our ends is, but with us
Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works
Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this
At least is ours, to make them righteous.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne ~

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. ~ Colin Powell (born April 5)

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

At the door of life, by the gate of breath,
There are worse things waiting for men than death;
Death could not sever my soul and you,
As these have severed your soul from me.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. ~ Jesus

• proposed by 99of9

2013

In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.

~ Booker T. Washington ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance.

~ Thomas Hobbes ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

Not from without us, only from within, Comes or can ever come upon us light Whereby the soul keeps ever truth in sight.

~ Algernon Charles Swinburne ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

~ Booker T. Washington ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2017

My wholelife has largely been one of surprises. I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life — that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living.

~ Booker T. Washington ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood … progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

~ Booker T. Washington ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2019

To promise that which is known to be impossible is no covenant. But if that prove impossible afterwards, which before was thought possible, the covenant is valid and bindeth, though not to the thing itself, yet to the value; or, if that also be impossible, to the unfeigned endeavour of performing as much as is possible, for to more no man can be obliged. Men are freed of their covenants two ways; by performing, or by being forgiven. For performance is the naturalend of obligation, and forgiveness the restitution of liberty, as being a retransferring of that right in which the obligation consisted.

~ Thomas Hobbes ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

There is no sincerer love than the love of food. ~ George Bernard Shaw

• selected by Poor Yorick

2005

See, I write jokes for a living, man. I sit in my hotel at night and think of something that's funny and then I go get a pen and write 'em down. Or, if the pen's too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain't funny. ~ Mitch Hedberg (recent death)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ Isaac Asimov (died 6 April 1992)

• selected by Kalki

2007

I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art. ~ Gustave Moreau

• proposed by Kalki

2008

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it. ~ Gustave Moreau

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Make our pleasant earth below
Like the heaven above.

~ Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.

Thus the little minutes,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages
Of eternity.
~ Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel. ~ Gustave Moreau

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

אלהי אלהי למא שבקתני
ελωι ελωι λεμα σαβαχθανι
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
~ Jesus ~

• proposed by Kalki

2013

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

~ Gustave Moreau ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.

~ James Mill ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2015

Speak kindly to the erring; Thou yet may'st lead them back, With holywords and tones of love, From misery's thorny track. Forget not thou hast often sinned. And sinful yet must be; Deal gently with the erring one, As God hath dealt with thee.

~ Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

Sleep and death of the senses; tears and the death of the heart. Do you understand the progression? Sleep, though sad, is gentler than tears which, though painful, are gentler than death. Ecstasy is more delightful than song, which is gentler than work. Prayer is superior to dreaming which is more elevated than manual work.

~ Gustave Moreau ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

Today I started loving you again I'm right back where I've really always been; I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend, Then today I started loving you again.

~ Merle Haggard ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

Of the laws of nature on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasures. This is no doubt the primary cause of government; for if nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men, nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another. The results are exceedingly different when nature produces the objects of desire not in sufficient abundance for all. The source of dispute is then exhaustless, and every man has the means of acquiring authority over others in proportion to the quantity of those objects which he is able to possess. In this case the end to be obtained through government as the means, is to make that distribution of the scanty materials of happiness which would insure the greatest sum of it in the members of the community taken altogether, preventing every individual or combination of individuals from interfering with that distribution or making any man to have less than his share.

~ James Mill ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2019

The government and the people are under a moralnecessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

~ James Mill ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of hell. ~ Saint Augustine

• selected by Poor Yorick

2005

Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are, and what this life is for. At the center humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul. ~ Saul Bellow (recent death)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
~ William Wordsworth (born 7 April 1770)

• selected by Kalki

2007

In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs — in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. ~ William Wordsworth

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. ~ Charlton Heston (recent death)

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ~ William Ellery Channing (born 7 April 1780)

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when..to dare, is the highest wisdom. ~ William Ellery Channing

• proposed by Kalki

2011

When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build. ~ Henry Kuttner

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. ~ William Ellery Channing

• proposed by Zarbon

2013

I call that mindfree, which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from heaven.

~ William Ellery Channing ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been mustever be.

~ William Wordsworth ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2015

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die!

~ William Wordsworth ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guiltyworld; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

~ William Ellery Channing ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2017

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. … It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthyfeeling. It's a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

~ J.K. Rowling ~

• proposed by Kalki in regard to World Health Day 2017, with its theme of 'Depression: Let's Talk'

2018

We need not war to awaken humanenergy. There is at least equal scope for courage and magnanimity in blessing, as in destroying mankind. The condition of the human race offers inexhaustible objects for enterprise, and fortitude, and magnanimity.

~ William Ellery Channing ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

Dust as we are, the immortalspiritgrows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutableworkmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.

~ William Wordsworth ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2020

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2004

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. ~ Zhuang Zi

• selected by Kalki

2005

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. ~ Gautama Buddha

• selected by Kalki; 8 April is Hana Matsuri (Flower Festival), the fixed-date celebration of Buddha's Birthday in Japan.

2006

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule. ~ Gautama Buddha

• selected by Kalki

2007

Blessed are the poor in spirit:
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn:
for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek:
for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:
for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful:
for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart:
for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers:
for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake:
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) ~ (for Easter Sunday 2007 in both the Gregorian calendar and Eastern Orthodox reckonings)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

Look, look, look to the rainbow
Follow it over the hill and stream
Look, look, look to the rainbow
Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
~ Yip Harburg ~ (born 8 April 1896)

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.
~ Yip Harburg ~

• proposed by Kalki

2010

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done. ~ Kofi Annan (born 8 April 1938)

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

Life by life and love by love
We passed through the cycles strange,
And breath by breath and death by death
We followed the chain of change.
Till there came a time in the law of life
When o’er the nursing sod,
The shadows broke and soul awoke
In a strange, dim dream of God.
~ Langdon Smith ~ (died 8 April 1908)

• proposed by Kalki

2012

I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes. ~ Jesus

• proposed by Kalki

2013

Life is short, short, brother! Ain't it the truth? And there is no other Ain't it the truth? You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth! Oh! Ain't it the solid truth?

~ Yip Harburg ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way. All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.

~ Yip Harburg ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

If we only have love We will never bow down We'll be tall as the pines Neither heroes nor clowns. If we only have love Then we'll only be men And we'll drink from the Grail To be born once again. Then with nothing at all But the little we are We'll have conquered all time Allspace, the sun, and the stars!

~ Jacques Brel ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

One of these days when the air clears up And the sun comes shining through We'll all be drinking that free bubble up And eating some rainbow stew.

~ Merle Haggard ~

• proposed by Kalki, in regard of his recent death.

2017

If we only have love We can reach those in pain We can heal all our wounds We can use our own names.

~ Jacques Brel ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

Only an idiotfights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.

~ J. Michael Straczynski ~ in ~ Babylon 5 : Ceremonies of Light and Dark ~

• proposed by Jeff Q as a quote of Londo Mollari, Babylon 5, 'Ceremonies of Light and Dark'; first broadcast 8 April 1996

2019

Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that we alone pursue the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and unworthy of attaining. This madness is so deep-rooted and so useful that it is impossible to realize what would become of each of us if it were someday to disappear.

~ Emil Cioran ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ~ John Vance Cheney

• selected by Kalki

2005

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. ~ Richard Feynman

• selected by Kalki

2006

I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another, and I know there are people in the world who do not love their fellow human beings — and I hate people like that! ~ Tom Lehrer (born 9 April 1928)

• selected by Kalki

2007

It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one’s eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth. ~ Charles Baudelaire (born 9 April 1821)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity. ~ Charles Baudelaire

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

These tall and handsome ships, swaying imperceptibly on tranquil waters, these sturdy ships, with their inactive, nostalgic appearance, don’t they say to us in a speechless tongue: When do we cast off for happiness? ~ Charles Baudelaire

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2010

All their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they thought good: they did eat, drink, labour, sleep, when they had a mind to it, and were disposed for it. None did awake them, none did offer to constrain them to eat, drink, nor to do any other thing; for so had Gargantua established it. In all their rule, and strictest tie of their order, there was but this one clause to be observed,
DO WHAT THOU WILT.
Because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour.
~ François Rabelais ~

• proposed by Kalki

2011

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul. ~ François Rabelais

• proposed by Kalki

2012

He would never take upon him the charge nor government of monks. For how shall I be able, said he, to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself: l If you think I have done you, or may hereafter do you any acceptable service, give me leave to found an abbey after my own mind and fancy. ~ François Rabelais

• proposed by Zarbon

2013

The monuments of witsurvive the monuments of power.

~ Francis Bacon ~

• proposed by SuperJew

2014

Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light, which infinitely flows forth from God, as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes.

~ William Law ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2015

He that has patience may compass anything.

~ François Rabelais ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love: husbands and wives who can't communicate, children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in these books and plays and so on, and in real life, I might add, spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up.

~ Tom Lehrer ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

There is in the word, in the logos, something sacred which forbids us to gamble with it. To handle a language skilfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2018

'Life is like a sewer — what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.' It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately needtoday in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

~ Tom Lehrer ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has 'The Truth'. To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist.

~ Tom Lehrer ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. ~ Henry James

• selected by Kalki

2005

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. ~ William Hazlitt (born 10 April 1778)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality. ~ George William Russell (born 10 April 1867)

• selected by Kalki

2007

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. ~ William Hazlitt (born 10 April 1778)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

They knew me from the dawn of time: if Hermes beats his rainbow wings,
If Angus shakes his locks of light, or golden-haired Apollo sings,
It matters not the name, the land; my joy in all the gods abides:
Even in the cricket in the grass some dimness of me smiles and hides.
~ Æ ~ [George William Russell] (born 10 April 1867)

• proposed by Kalki

2009

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. ~ William Hazlitt

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2010

It was the wise all-seeing soul
Who counselled neither war nor peace:
'Only be thou thyself that goal
In which the wars of time shall cease.'
~ Æ ~

• proposed by Kalki

2011

Oh Master of the Beautiful,
Creating us from hour to hour,
Give me this vision to the full
To see in lightest things thy power!
This vision give, no heaven afar,
No throne, and yet I will rejoice,
Knowing beneath my feet a star,
Thy word in every wandering voice.
~ Æ ~

• proposed by Kalki

2012

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity, who drink of that flood of glory as of a river, and refresh our wings in it for futureflight. ~ William Hazlitt

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2013

I knownow that it was meant to be this way. Sometimes, we have to look beyond what we want and do what's best. This is the path that I've chosen. Let's talk about something else. …You've become a truly great warrior … yet, you've remained humble. You've shown me that power is nothing if not guided by love. And watching you grow has helped me grow … That's why I'm here.

~ Piccolo ~ in ~ Dragon Ball GT ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2014

Far up the dim twilight fluttered Moth-wings of vapour and flame: The lightsdanced over the mountains, Star after star they came. The lights grew thicker unheeded, For silent and still were we; Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

~ Æ ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called 'the Kingdom of Heaven' had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in materialpower murmuring as he went homeward, 'it will all blow over now.' Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

~ Æ ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritualdefeat and our likeness to what we hate.

~ Æ ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

~ William Hazlitt ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

The true barbarian is he who thinks every thing barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

~ William Hazlitt ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

There is … no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

~ William Hazlitt ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. ~ Yeshua of Galilee (Jesus Christ) (Easter Sunday 2004)

• selected by Kalki

2005

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed'. ~ Charles Evans Hughes (born 11 April 1862)

• selected by Kalki

2006

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. ~ Leo Rosten (born 11 April 1908)

• selected by Kalki

2007

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. ~ Leo Rosten (born 11 April 1908)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. ~ Charles Evans Hughes

• proposed by Kalki

2009

No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse. … Increasing prosperity tends to breed indifference and to corrupt moral soundness. Glaring inequalities in condition create discontent and strain the democratic relation. The vicious are the willing, and the ignorant are unconscious instruments of political artifice. Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. . The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope! ~ Charles Evans Hughes

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

The only real progress to abiding peace is found in the friendly disposition of peoples and … facilities for maintaining peace are useful only to the extent that this friendly disposition exists and finds expression. War is not only possible, but probable, where mistrust and hatred and desire for revenge are the dominant motives. Our first duty is at home with our own opinion, by education and unceasing effort to bring to naught the mischievous exhortation of chauvinists; our next is to aid in every practicable way in promoting a better feeling among peoples, the healing of wounds, and the just settlement of differences. ~ Charles Evans Hughes

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. ~ Leo Rosten

• proposed by Kalki

2012

History is merely a list of surprises. … It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down. ~ Kurt Vonnegut with a lean toward 4.

• proposed by Kalki

2013

A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn't a rationalinvention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It's also a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it.

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

Many peopleneed desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone.'

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~ in ~ Timequake ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC.

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

We still proclaim the old ideals of liberty but we cannot voice them without anxiety in our hearts. The question is no longer one of establishing democraticinstitutions but of preserving them. … The arch enemies of society are those who know better but by indirection, misstatement, understatement, and slander, seek to accomplish their concealed purposes or to gain profit of some sort by misleading the public. The antidote for these poisons must be found in the sincere and courageousefforts of those who would preserve their cherished freedom by a wise and responsible use of it. Freedom of expression gives the essential democratic opportunity, but self-restraint is the essential civic discipline.

~ Charles Evans Hughes ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward — and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong! Open your eyes that you may see, Oh men of mildewed minds, and listen to me ye bewildered millions! For I stand forth to challenge the wisdom of the world; to interrogate the 'laws' of man and of 'God'! I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments. … I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness. I raise up in stern invasion the standard of the strong!

~ Anton LaVey ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2019

Black holes ain't as black as they are painted. They are not the eternalprisons they were once thought. Things can get out of a black hole, both to the outside, and possibly to another universe. So if you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out.

~ Stephen Hawking ~

• proposed by Kalki, in regard to the release of the first direct photograph of a Black Hole.

2020

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2004

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. ~ Pierre Trudeau (on Canadian relations with the US)

• selected by Poor Yorick

2005

A living body is not merely an integration of limbs and flesh but it is the abode of the soul which potentially has perfect perception, perfect knowledge, perfect power, and perfect bliss. ~ Mahavira (599 or 549 BC) Mahavira Jayanti 2005 celebrating Mahavira's birth (Cregorian calendar and the traditional Jain calculations do not correspond precisely from year to year).

• selected by Kalki

2006

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. ~ Tom Clancy (born 12 April 1947)

• selected by Kalki

2007

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle. ~ Tom Clancy

• proposed by Kalki

2008

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. - Henry Clay (born 12 April 1777)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

He that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) (Easter Sunday 2009)

• proposed by Kalki

2010

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it. Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, 'Oh, you can't do that..' ~ Tom Clancy

• proposed by Kalki

2011

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty. There are some ten thousand religious sects — each with its own cosmology, each with its own answer for the meaning of life and death. Most assert that the other 9,999 not only have it completely wrong but are instruments of evil, besides. None of the ten thousand has yet persuaded me to make the requisite leap of faith. In the absence of conviction, I've come to terms with the fact that uncertainty is an inescapable corollary of life. An abundance of mystery is simply part of the bargain — which doesn't strike me as something to lament. Accepting the essential inscrutability of existence, in any case, is surely preferable to its opposite: capitulating to the tyranny of intransigent belief. And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why — which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive. ~ Jon Krakauer

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

Historically, anything that gets information to people is good for the world. The most important human being whoever lived, if you want to leave out religious figures, would be Johannes Gutenberg.. that's when the liberation of human thought happened, because people could read the thoughts of people across the world, and have thoughts of their own, and publish them and spread information around. Anything that gets information to people is good. ~ Tom Clancy

• proposed by Kalki

2013

The basic drive behind realphilosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the preconsciousness of babyhood and simply finds himself here, in it, in the world. That experience alone astonishes some people. What is all this — what is the world? And what are we? From the beginning of humanity some have been under a compulsion to ask these questions, and have felt a craving for the answers. This is what is really meant by any such phrase as 'mankind's need for metaphysics.'

~ Bryan Magee ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

I have very strongly this feeling.. that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.

~ Bryan Magee ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2015

Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming andbeing one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature.

~ Swami Narayanananda ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2016

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

~ Tom Clancy ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

The average guy is smart enough to know the difference between what works and what doesn't, and if you have bad information, sooner or later, you figure it out and you get onto something else.

~ Tom Clancy ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

The drafters of the Constitution had made one simple but far-reaching error. They'd assumed that the people selected by The People to manage the nation would be as honest and honorable as they'd been. One could almost hear the 'Oops!' emanating from all those old graves.

~ Tom Clancy ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

I honestlybeleave it iz better tew knownothing than two know what ain't so.

~ Josh Billings ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2020

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2004

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

• selected by Kalki

2005

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ~ Thomas Jefferson (born 13 April 1743 (N.S.))

• selected by Kalki

2006

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson

• selected by Kalki

2007

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. ~ Christopher Hitchens

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ~ Thomas Jefferson

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson

• proposed by Kalki

2010

History says don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
on the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.
~ Seamus Heaney ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. ~ Thomas Jefferson

• proposed by Kalki

2012

A desperate disease requires a dangerousremedy. ~ Guy Fawkes

• proposed by Zarbon

2013

Let us do something while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To allmankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for once the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

~ Samuel Beckett ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

Over the mountains, And over the waves, Over the fountains, And under the graves; Over the floods that are deepest, Which do Neptune obey; Over the rocks that are steepest, Love will find out the way.

~ Thomas Percy ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2015

I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another, for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

I've learned some things from having lived: If you're alive, experience largely, merge with rivers, heavens, cosmos For what we call living is a gift given to life And life is a gift bestowed upon us

~ Ataol Behramoğlu ~

• proposed by Nuktut

2017

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any humanpower can give.

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

It would be a dangerousdelusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights; that confidence is every where the parent of despotism; freegovernment is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power; that our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no farther, our confidence may go; and let the honest advocate of confidence read the Alien and Sedition Acts, and say if the Constitution has not been wise in fixing limits to the government it created, and whether we should be wise in destroying those limits; let him say what the government is, if it be not a tyranny, which the men of our choice have conferred on the President, and the President of our choice has assented to and accepted, over the friendlystrangers, to whom the mild spirit of our country and its laws had pledged hospitality and protection; that the men of our choice have more respected the bare suspicions of the President than the solid rights of innocence, the claims of justification, the sacredforce of truth, and the forms and substance of law and justice. In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

To knownothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.

~ Samuel Beckett ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

• selected by Kalki

2005

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ~ James Branch Cabell (born 14 April 1879)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) (Good Friday 2006)

• selected by Kalki

2007

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is 'So it goes.' ~ Kurt Vonnegut (recent death)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. … But you, I think, have always comprehended this. ~ James Branch Cabell

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over;
One thing unshaken stays:
Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover;
Whereby decays
Each thing save one thing: — mid this strife diurnal
Of hourly change begot,
Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal,
And changes not.
~ James Branch Cabell ~

• proposed by Kalki

2010

I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful — being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational. ~ James Branch Cabell

• proposed by Kalki

2011

It is necessary that I climb very high because of my love for you, and upon the heights there is silence. ~ James Branch Cabell

• proposed by Kalki

2012

And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue,
In shadowysilent distance grew the Iceberg too.

Alien they seemed to be;
No mortal eye could see
The intimate welding of their later history,

Or sign that they were bent
By paths coincident
On being anon twin halves of one augustevent,

Till the Spinner of the Years
Said 'Now!' And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.

~ Thomas Hardy ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2013

Criticism, whatever may be its pretensions, never does more than to define the impression which is made upon it at a certainmoment by a work wherein the writer himself noted the impression of the world which he received at a certain hour.

~ James Branch Cabell ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken at will from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. If the sigil were proved to be the top of a tomato-can, it would not alter that big fact, nor my fixed faith.

~ James Branch Cabell ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

I agree with Freydis that, for various reasons, nobody ever, quite, knewManuel well. The hero of 'The Silver Stallion' is, thus, no person, but an idea, — an idea presented at the moment of its conception.. I mean, of course, the idea that Manuel, who was yesterday the physical Redeemer of Poictesme, will by and by return as his people'sspiritual Redeemer.

~ James Branch Cabell ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

I quite fixedly believe the Wardens of Earth sometimes unbar strange windows, that face on other worlds than ours. And some of us, I think, once in a while get a peep through these windows. But we are not permitted to get a long peep, or an unobstructed peep, nor very certainly, are we permitted to see all there is — out yonder. The fatal fault, sir, of your theorizing is that it is too complete. It aims to throw light upon the universe, and therefore is self-evidently moonshine. The Wardens of Earth do not desire that we should understand the universe, Mr. Kennaston; it is part of Their appointed task to insure that we never do; and because of Their efficiency every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarilyprovewrong.

~ James Branch Cabell ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

You waste time, my friend, in trying to convince me of allhumanlife's failure and unimportance, for I am not in sympathy with this modern morbid pessimistic way of talking. It has a very ill sound, and nothing whatever is to be gained by it.

~ James Branch Cabell ~

• proposed by Kalki, and selected for use on Good Friday 2017.

2018

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

~ James Branch Cabell ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

Everywhere in the worldpeople were expecting the latter coming of one or another kickshaw messiah who would remove the discomforts which they themselves were either too lazy or too incompetent to deal with; and nobody had anything whatever to gain with electing for peculiarity among one's fellow creatures and a gloomier outlook.

~ James Branch Cabell ~

• proposed by Kalki, for JBC's DOB and Palm Sunday 2019.

2020

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2004

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. ~ Will Rogers (US income tax filing deadline, April 15)

• selected by Kalki

2005

Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity — by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles.. ~ Leonardo da Vinci (born 15 April 1452)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. ~ Leonhard Euler (born 15 April 1707)

• selected by Kalki

2007

We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. ~ Henry James

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. It is the very atmosphere of the mind; and when the mind is imaginative — much more when it happens to be that of a man of genius — it takes to itself the faintest hints of life, it converts the very pulses of the air into revelations. ~ Henry James

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

${\displaystyle e^{i\pi }+1=0.}$

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.

~ Benjamin Peirce on Euler'sidentity ~

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

I am a being of Heaven and Earth,
of thunder and lightning,
of rain and wind,
of the galaxies,
of the suns and the stars
and the void through which they travel.
The essence of nature,
eternal, divine that all men seek to know to hear,
known as the great illusion time,
and the all-prevailing atmosphere.
And now you know my background.
~ eden ahbez ~

• proposed by Kalki

2012

This is the law: Every thing existing on the physical plane is an exteriorization of thought, which must be balanced through the one who issued the thought, and in accordance with that one’s responsibility, at the conjunction of time, condition, and place. ~ Harold W. Percival

• proposed by Zarbon

2013

The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2014

A thought has no size in the physical sense but is vast as compared to the physical acts and objects into which it is later precipitated. The power of a thought is enormous and superior to all the successive physical acts, objects, and events that body forth its energy. A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole life of the man who thought it.

~ Harold W. Percival ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2015

Why does the eyesee a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2016

To lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2017

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

He who thinks little, errs much.

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2019

If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions, and some of the most interesting experiments of which it is capable are hidden in the bosom of common things.

~ Henry James ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2020

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2004

Curse on all laws but those which love has made! ~ Alexander Pope

• selected by Kalki

2005

In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. ~ Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (born 16 April 1889)

• selected by Kalki

2006

The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) (Easter Sunday 2006)

• selected by Kalki

2007

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ~ Anatole France (born 16 April 1844)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~ Anatole France

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much. ~ Wilbur Wright

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. ~ Peter Ustinov

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be. ~ Anatole France

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

It is by acts, and not by ideas that peoplelive. ~ Anatole France

• proposed by Zarbon

2013

The finest words in the world are only vainsounds, if you cannot comprehend them.

~ Anatole France ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2014

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

~ William Feather ~

• proposed by Zarbon; this originally was selected as having been a quote of Anatole France, to whom it had sometimes been attributed to since the 1990s. During the day it was used as QOTD, this was found to be a misattribution, and the proper attribution given to William Feather.

2015

The godsconform scrupulously to the sentiments of their worshippers: they have reasons for so doing. Pay attention to this. … The Emperor Julian's morals were almost those of St. Gregory Nazianzen. There is nothing in this but what is natural and usual. The transformations undergone by morals and ideas are never sudden. The greatest changes in sociallife are wrought imperceptibly, and are only seen from afar. Christianity did not secure a foothold until such time as the condition of morals accommodated itself to it, and as Christianity itself had become adjusted to the condition of morals. It was unable to substitute itself for paganism until such time as paganism came to resemble it, and itself came to resemble paganism.

~ Anatole France ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

• proposed by Kalki (but mistakenly attributed to Anatole France)

2017

Your God still walks in Eden, between the ancient trees, Where Youth and Love go wading through pools of primroses. And this is the sign we bring you, before the darkness fall, That Spring is risen, is risen again, That Life is risen, is risen again, That Love is risen, is risen again, and Love is Lord of all.

~ Alfred Noyes ~

• proposed by Kalki for Easter Sunday 2017.

2018

The church of Notre-Dame de Paris is still no doubt, a majestic and sublime edifice. But, beautiful as it has been preserved in growing old, it is difficult not to sigh, not to wax indignant, before the numberless degradations and mutilations which time and men have both caused the venerable monument to suffer, without respect for Charlemagne, who laid its first stone, or for Philip Augustus, who laid the last. On the face of this aged queen of our cathedrals, by the side of a wrinkle, one always finds a scar. Tempus edax, homo edacior; which I should be glad to translate thus: time is blind, man is stupid.

~ Victor Hugo ~ in ~ The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ~

• proposed by Kalki, in regard to the massively destructive fire at Notre-Dame de Paris.

2019

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2004

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. ~ B. F. Skinner

• selected by Kalki

2005

We ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. ~ Thornton Wilder (born 17 April 1897)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence. ~ Karen Blixen (born 17 April 1885)

• selected by Kalki

2007

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. ~ Thornton Wilder

• proposed by Kalki

2008

I am not a novelist, really not even a writer; I am a storyteller. One of my friends said about me that I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them, and perhaps this is not entirely untrue. To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy. ~ Karen Blixen

• proposed by Kalki

2009

The real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will. ~ Karen Blixen

• proposed by Kalki

2010

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority. ~ Benjamin Tucker

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus,
The conscience is converted into palms,
Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.
We agree in principle. That's clear. But take
The opposing law and make a peristyle,
And from the peristyle project a masque
Beyond the planets. Thus, our bawdiness,
Unpurged by epitaph, indulged at last,
Is equally converted into palms,
Squiggling like saxophones. And palm for palm,
Madame, we are where we began.
~ Wallace Stevens ~
A poem involving peristyles and palms for Palm Sunday 2011, in both Western and Eastern Orthodox calendars.

• proposed by Kalki

2012

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. ~ Thornton Wilder

• proposed by Kalki

2013

If rules make you nervous and depressed, and not desirous of participating in the Wiki, then ignorethem and go about your business.

~ Lee Daniel Crocker ~

• proposed by Kalki for the 11th anniversary of the First version of the Wikipedia:Ignore all rules policy.

2014

We designate by the term 'State' institutions that embody absolutism in its extreme form and institutions that temper it with more or less liberality. We apply the word alike to institutions that do nothing but aggress and to institutions that, besides aggressing, to some extent protect and defend. But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

~ Benjamin Tucker ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2015

'Passive resistance,' said Ferdinand Lassalle, with an obtuseness thoroughly German, 'is the resistance which does not resist.' Never was there a greater mistake. It is the only resistance which in these days of militarydiscipline resists with any result. There is not a tyrant in the civilizedworld today who would not do anything in his power to precipitate a bloody revolution rather than see himself confronted by any large fraction of his subjects determined not to obey. An insurrection is easily quelled; but no army is willing or able to train its guns on inoffensive people who do not even gather in the streets but stay at home and stand back on their rights. Neither the ballot nor the bayonet is to play any great part in the coming struggle; passive resistance is the instrument by which the revolutionary force is destined to secure in the last great conflict the people's rights forever.

~ Benjamin Tucker ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2016

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

~ Thornton Wilder ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

The population of the world is gradually dividing into two classes, Anarchists and criminals.

~ Benjamin Tucker ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

The idea that Anarchy can be inaugurated by force is as fallacious as the idea that it can be sustained by force. Force cannot preserve Anarchy; neither can it bring it. In fact, one of the inevitable influences of the use of force is to postpone Anarchy. The only thing that force can ever do for us is to save us from extinction, to give us a longer lease of life in which to try to secure Anarchy by the only methods that can ever bring it. But this advantage is always purchased at immense cost, and its attainment is always attended by frightful risk. The attempt should be made only when the risk of any other course is greater.

~ Benjamin Tucker ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

As angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strangethoughtstranscend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.

~ Henry Vaughan ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. ~ Bill Hicks

• selected by Kalki

2005

Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction.. Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands. ~ Leopold Stokowski (born 18 April 1882)

• selected by Kalki

2006

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means. ~ Clarence Darrow (born 18 April 1857)

• selected by Kalki

2007

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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history. ~ Clarence Darrow

• selected by Kalki

2008

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. ~ Clarence Darrow

• proposed by Kalki

2009

I believe that music can be an inspirational force in all our lives — that its eloquence and the depth of its meaning are all-important, and that all personal considerations concerning musicians and the public are relatively unimportant — that music come from the heart and returns to the heart — that music is spontaneous, impulsive expression — that its range is without limit — that music is forever growing — that music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man. ~ Leopold Stokowski

2010

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. ~ George Henry Lewes

• proposed by Kalki

2011

Instead … of saying that Man is the creature of Circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that Man is the architect of Circumstance. It is Character which builds an existence out of Circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels, one warehouses, another villas. ~ George Henry Lewes

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man. I am quite certain that the more the question of crime and its treatment is studied the less faith men have in punishment. ~ Clarence Darrow

• proposed by Kalki

2013

The moralnature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced — that without intelligence we should be Brutes — but it is the tendency of our gaping, wonderingdispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.

~ George Henry Lewes ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2014

No deeply-rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverseargument. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

~ George Henry Lewes ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2015

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Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatterGod by despising the world, and vilifyinghuman nature.

~ George Henry Lewes ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2016

Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.

~ Kathy Acker ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

~ Samuel P. Huntington ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2018

Cultural and civilizationaldiversity challenges the Western and particularly Americanbelief in the universalrelevance of Western culture. … Normatively the Western universalist belief posits that people throughout the world should embrace Western values, institutions, and culture because they embody the highest, most enlightened, most liberal, most rational, most modern, and most civilized thinking of humankind. In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

~ Samuel P. Huntington ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2019

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

~ Clarence Darrow ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

Materialists and madmen never have doubts. ~ G. K. Chesterton

• selected by Kalki

2005

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. ~ Benjamin Disraeli (died 19 April 1881)

• selected by Kalki

2006

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;
Here once the embattled farmers stood;
And fired the shot heard round the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought on 19 April 1775)

• selected by Kalki

2007

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ~ Jehanne Darc (Joan of Arc) (Official Beatification by the Roman Catholic Church in 1903)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist. ~ Albert Hofmann (for Bicycle Day)

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) (Easter Sunday by the reckonings of the Eastern Orthodox traditions 2009

• proposed by Kalki

2010

I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation. ~ Albert Hofmann‎ (for Bicycle Day)

• proposed by Kalki

2011

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen. ~ Paolo Veronese

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind slides into a groove, and once it is in that groove, has difficulty noticing anything outside of it. During this time, my sense must be sharp; that is the main thing — to be sharp, yet open. ~ Bernd Heinrich

• proposed by Zarbon

2013

Of greatestsignificance to me has been the insight that I attained as a fundamental understanding from all of my LSD experiments: what one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individualperson, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous — that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.

~ Albert Hofmann‎‎ ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician.

~ Glenn T. Seaborg ~

• proposed by bystander

2015

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattledfarmers stood, And fired the shot heard round theworld. The foe long since in silenceslept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

Of justice yet must God in fine restore, This noble crowne unto the lawful heire For right will alwayes live, and rise at length, But wrong can never take deepe roote to last.

~ Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2017

In studying the literature connected with my work, I became aware of the greatuniversalsignificance of visionaryexperience. It plays a dominant role, not only in mysticism and the history of religion, but also in the creative process in art, literature, and science. More recent investigations have shown that many persons also have visionary experiences in daily life, though most of us fail to recognize their meaning and value. Mystical experiences, like those that marked my childhood, are apparently far from rare.

~ Albert Hofmann ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

For heaven's sake enjoylife. Don't cry over things that were or things that aren't. Enjoy what you have now to the fullest. In allhonesty you really only have two choices; you can like what you do OR you can dislike it. I choose to like it and what fun I have had. The other choice is no fun and people do not want to be around a whiner. We can always find people who are worse off and we don't have to look far! Help them and forget self! I would certainly say, above all, seek God. He will come to you if you look. There is absolutely NO down side.

~ Barbara Bush ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves: For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

~ Gospel of Luke ~

• proposed by Kalki, in regard for Holy Thursday and Good Friday.

2020

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2004

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ~ Elbert Hubbard

• selected by Kalki

2005

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope, John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble worker in the Lord's vineyard. The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. ~ Pope Benedict XVI (recent papal election)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~ Dinah Craik (born 20 April 1826)

• selected by Kalki

2007

It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave. ~ Dinah Craik

• proposed by Kalki

2008

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. … Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story. ~ Peter S. Beagle in The Last Unicorn

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people — as may be noticed of most young children — does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years. ~ Dinah Craik

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Schmendrick stepped out into the open and said a few words. They were short words, undistinguished either by melody or harshness, and Schmendrick himself could not hear them for the Red Bull's dreadful bawling. But he knew what they meant, and he knew exactly how to say them, and he knew that he could say them again when he wanted to, in the same way or in a different way. Now he spoke them gently and with joy, and as did so he felt his immortality fall from him like an armour, or like a shroud. ~ Peter S. Beagle in The Last Unicorn

• proposed by Kalki

2011

Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of 'eccentricity' it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences. ~ Dinah Craik

• proposed by Kalki

2012

Awakener, come!
Fling wide the gate of an eternal year,
The April of that glad new heavens and earth
Which shall grow out of these, as spring-tide grows
Slow out of winter's breast.
Let Thy wide hand
Gather us all — with none left out (O God!
Leave Thou out none!) from the east and from the west.
Loose Thou our burdens: heal our sicknesses;
Give us one heart, one tongue, one faith, one love.
In Thy great Oneness made complete and strong —
To do Thy work throughout the happyworld —
Thy world, All-merciful, Thy perfect world.

~ Dinah Craik ~

• proposed by Kalki

2013

When the last eagle flies over the last crumbling mountain And the last lion roars at the last dusty fountain In the shadow of the forest though she may be old and worn They will stare unbelieving at the last unicorn.

~ Jimmy Webb ~ for The Last Unicorn by ~ Peter S. Beagle ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

We never know through what Divinemysteries of compensation the greatFather of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, 'God is love' ought to contain, to every doubtingsoul, the solution of all things.

~ Dinah Craik ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

~ Dinah Craik ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

I have forgotten that men cannot seeUnicorns. If men no longer know what they're looking at, there may well be other unicorns in the world yet — unknown — and glad of it.

~ Peter S. Beagle ~ in ~ The Last Unicorn ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is … There is much misjudgment in the world. … We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

~ Peter S. Beagle ~ in ~ The Last Unicorn ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

I can never regret. I can feelsorrow, but it's not the same thing.

~ Peter S. Beagle ~ in ~ The Last Unicorn ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall, — So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move.

~ Dinah Craik ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. ~ Molière

• selected by Kalki

2005

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. ~ John Muir (born 21 April 1838)

• selected by Kalki

2006

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. ~ John Muir (born 21 April 1838)

• selected by Kalki

2007

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ~ Charlotte Brontë

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountaintop it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make — leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone — we all dwell in a house of one room — the world with the firmament for its roof — and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track. ~ John Muir

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality. ~ J. G. Ballard

• proposed by Ningauble

2010

We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for. ~ Rollo May (born 21 April 1909)

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, 'This is me and the world be damned!' Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society — Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line. ~ Rollo May

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth. ~ Peter Abelard

• proposed by Zarbon

2013

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive — to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.

~ Rollo May ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2014

Is not the realexperience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be quite deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? When she shows us bright pictures, are we never to look at them, and try to reproduce them? And when she is eloquent, and speaks rapidly and urgently in our ear, are we not to write to her dictation?

~ Charlotte Brontë ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2015

Memory is not just the imprint of the pasttime upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

~ Rollo May ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2016

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

~ Peter Abelard ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly healsinjury. … Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how he acts — make his word your rule, and his conduct your example. … Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you.

~ Charlotte Brontë ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2018

A 'war against terrorism' is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism. The feelings on both sides are not that they are taking part in some evil and criminal act but risking their livesheroically for what they consider to be a justcause.

~ John Mortimer ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2019

The word 'resurrection' has for many people the connotation of deadbodies leaving their graves or other fanciful images. But resurrection means the victory of the New state of things, the New Being born out of the death of the Old. Resurrection is not an event that might happen in some remote future, but it is the power of the New Being to createlife out of death, here and now, today andtomorrow. Where there is a New Being, there is resurrection, namely, the creation into eternity out of every moment of time. The Old Being has the mark of disintegration and death. The New Being puts a new mark over the old one. Out of disintegration and death something is born of eternal significance. That which is immersed in dissolution emerges in a New Creation. Resurrection happens now, or it does not happen at all. It happens in us and around us, in soul and history, in nature and universe. Reconciliation, reunion, resurrection — this is the New Creation, the New Being, the New state of things.

~ Paul Tillich ~

• proposed by Kalki, in regard to Easter Sunday 2019.

2020

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2004

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. ~ Anne Frank

• selected by Kalki

2005

Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. ~ Immanuel Kant (born 22 April 1724)

• selected by Kalki

2006

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. ~ Vladimir Nabokov (born 22 April 1899) {10 April O.S.}

• selected by Kalki

2007

It is certainly not then — not in dreams — but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

• proposed by Kalki

2008

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~ Marshall McLuhan (quote for Earth Day)

• proposed by Kalki

2009

The death of dogma is the birth of morality. ~ Immanuel Kant

• proposed by Kalki

2010

We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. … We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it. ~ Wendell Berry (quote for Earth Day)

• proposed by Kalki

2011

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

• proposed by Kalki

2012

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time. ~ Charles Mingus

• proposed by Zarbon

2013

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end…

~ Anne Louise Germaine de Staël ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.

~ Immanuel Kant ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end; that end Beginning, mean, and end to all things, — God.

~ Philip James Bailey ~

• proposed by DanielTom

2016

How can U just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold) Maybe I'm just 2 demanding Maybe I'm just like my father, 2 bold Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied) Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like When doves cry.

~ Prince ~

— Added to QOTD layout as tribute to Prince after his death on 21 April 2016 —

I believe that through discipline, though not through discipline alone, we can achieve serenity, and a certain small but precious measure of the freedom from the accidents of incarnation, and charity, and that detachment which preserves the world which it renounces.

~ Robert Oppenheimer ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starryheavens above me and the morallaw within me.

~ Immanuel Kant ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons, as they were in fact used, dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

~ Robert Oppenheimer ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

Our own politicallife is predicated on openness. We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to enquire. We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

~ Robert Oppenheimer ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. ~ Martha Washington

• selected by Kalki

2005

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ~ 'Prospero' in The Tempest by William Shakespeare (birth traditionally celebrated 23 April 1564, died 23 April 1616 O.S.)

• selected by Kalki

2006

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ~ William Shakespeare in As You Like It (birth traditionally celebrated 23 April 1564, died 23 April 1616 O.S.)

• selected by Kalki

2007

We defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. ~ 'Hamlet' in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again:
And by that destiny, to perform an act
Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come
In yours and my discharge.
~ William Shakespeare in The Tempest ~

• proposed by Kalki

2009

I would not so dishonour God as to lend my voice to perpetuate all the mad and foolish things which men have dared to say of Him. I believe that we may find in the Bible the highest and purest religion most of all in the history of Him in whose name we all are called. His religion — not the Christian religion, but the religion of Christ — the poor man's gospel; the message of forgiveness, of reconciliation, of love; and, oh, how gladly would I spend my life, in season and out of season, in preaching this! But I must have no hell terrors, none of these fear doctrines; they were not in the early creeds, God knows whether they were ever in the early gospels, or ever passed His lips. He went down to hell, but it was to break the chains, not to bind them. ~ James Anthony Froude

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ~ Max Planck

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
~ William Shakespeare ~ in A Midsummer Night's Dream

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2012

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientificwork of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with. ~ Max Planck

• proposed by Kalki

2013

Now I will believe That there are unicorns; that in Arabia There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix At this hour reigning there.

~ William Shakespeare ~ in ~ The Tempest ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

Know thus far forth: By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune — Now my dear lady — hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.

~ William Shakespeare ~ in ~ The Tempest ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

~ Max Planck ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2016

The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentlerain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless’d; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ’Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God’s, When mercy seasons justice.

~ William Shakespeare ~ in ~ The Merchant of Venice ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2017

If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wildwaters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! A brave vessel, Who had, no doubt, some noble creatures in her, Dash'd all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perish'd! Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the goodship so have swallow'd, and The fraughting souls within her.

~ William Shakespeare ~ in ~ The Tempest ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.

~ William Shakespeare ~ in ~ The Tempest ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

~ Max Planck ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2020

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2004

In war, you win or lose, live or die — and the difference is just an eyelash. ~ Douglas MacArthur

• selected by Kalki

2005

Everything seems an echo of something else. ~ Robert Penn Warren (born 24 April 1905)

• selected by Kalki

2006

The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him. ~ Robert Penn Warren (born 24 April 1905)

• selected by Kalki

2007

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards. When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness. ~ Anthony Trollope

• proposed by Kalki

2008

The poem.. is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see — it is, rather, a light by which we may see — and what we see is life. ~ Robert Penn Warren

• proposed by Kalki

2009

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it. ~ Vincent de Paul

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere. ~ William the Silent

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of. ~ Vincent de Paul

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

So little time we live in Time,
And we learn all so painfully,
That we may spare this hour's term
To practice for Eternity.
~ Robert Penn Warren ~

• proposed by Kalki

2013

In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe … to see a man burnt for doing as he thoughtright, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.

~ William the Silent ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2014

I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

~ William the Silent ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will keep your gentleness and your smile. It is not enough to give soup and bread. This the rich can do. You are the servant of the poor, always smiling and good-humored. They are your masters, terribly sensitive and exacting master you will see. and the uglier and the dirtier they will be, the more unjust and insulting, the more love you must give them. It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them.

~ Vincent de Paul ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2016

things explain each other, Not themselves.

~ George Oppen ~

• proposed by DanielTom

2017

The endwill show the wholetruth.

~ William the Silent ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

~ Anthony Trollope ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificantchatter of the world.

~ Anthony Trollope ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~ Gautama Buddha

• selected by Kalki

2005

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them. ~ Edward R. Murrow (born 25 April 1908)

• selected by Kalki

2006

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. ~ Edward R. Murrow (born 25 April 1908)

• proposed by JeffQ

2007

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. ~ Boris Yeltsin (recent death)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. ~ Edward R. Murrow

• proposed by Kalki

2009

I will either find a way, or make one. ~ Hannibal

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

It is best to keep one’s own state intact; to crush the enemy’s state is only second best. ~ Sun Tzu

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. ~ Sun Tzu

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

Reason, in fact, is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason — nothing which He has not willed should be handled and understood by reason. All, therefore, who are ignorant of God, must necessarily be ignorant also of a thing which is His, because no treasure-house at all is accessible to strangers. And thus, voyaging all the universal course of life without the rudder of reason, they know not how to shun the hurricane which is impending over the world. ~ Tertullian

• proposed by Kalki

2013

Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language, yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere.

~ Tertullian ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

~ Edward R. Murrow ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

Cum ergo spiritus Dei descendit, indiuidua patientia comitatur eum. · When God's Spirit descends, then Patience accompanies Him indivisibly.

~ Tertullian ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

We must not confusedissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. This is no time for men who opposeSenator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

~ Edward R. Murrow ~

• proposed by DanielTom

2017

Truthpersuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

~ Tertullian ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2018

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

~ Tertullian ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2019

The layman always means, when he says 'reality' that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.

~ Wolfgang Pauli ~

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2020

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2004

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality. ~ Steve Allen

• selected by Kalki

2005

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein (born 26 April 1889)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. ~ Marcus Aurelius (born 26 April 121)

• selected by Kalki

2007

They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other. ~ Eugène Delacroix (born 26 April 1798)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman.. did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype. ~ Jessica Lynch (born 26 April 1983)

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2010

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. ~ Morris West (born 26 April 1916)

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price … One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover, and yet demand no easy return of love. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. ~ Morris West

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselvesmanifest. They are what is mystical. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

• proposed by Kalki

2013

No man — prince, peasant, pope, — has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!

~ Morris West ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2014

Philosophicalproblems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divineintelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

~ Morris West ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2017

Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personalfeeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtlessenthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.

~ Eugène Delacroix ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

Philosophy aims at the logicalclarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2019

There was an idea … called the Avengers Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people — see if they could become something more — see if they could work together when we needed them to to fight the battles we never could.

~ The Avengers ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. ~ Anatole France

• selected by Kalki

2005

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft (born 27 April 1759)

• selected by Kalki

2006

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~ Edward Gibbon (born 27 April 1737 O.S. but actually 8 May in the Gregorian Calendar — confusions existed when this choice was made.)

• selected by Kalki

2007

Though I have been trained as a soldier, and participated in many battles, there never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. I look forward to an epoch when a court, recognized by all nations, will settle international differences. ~ Ulysses S. Grant

• selected by Kalki

2008

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. ~ Herbert Spencer

• proposed by Kalki

2009

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. ~ Ulysses S. Grant

• proposed by Zarbon

2013

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience.

~ Coretta Scott King ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2014

The current opinion that science and poetry are opposed is a delusion. … Think you that a drop of water, which to the vulgar eye is but a drop of water, loses any thing in the eye of the physicist who knows that its elements are held together by a force which, if suddenly liberated, would produce a flash of lightning? Think you that what is carelessly looked upon by the uninitiated as a mere snow-flake does not suggest higher associations to one who has seen through a microscope the wondrously varied and elegant forms of snow-crystals? Think you that the rounded rock marked with parallel scratches calls up as much poetry in an ignorantmind as in the mind of a geologist, who knows that over this rock a glacier slid a million years ago? … The truth is, that those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

~ Herbert Spencer ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2016

Man needed one moral constitution to fit him for his original state; he needs another to fit him for his present state; and he has been, is, and will long continue to be, in process of adaptation. And the belief in humanperfectibility merely amounts to the belief that, in virtue of this process, man will eventually become completely suited to his mode of life. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is part of nature; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower.

~ Herbert Spencer ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2017

We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.

~ Robert M. Pirsig ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

I now hold omnipotence. What should I do with such almightypower? The answer to that is actually quite simple: Anything I want. Anything. I am incapable of error. Any result that displeases me I can simply reverse. There is nothing I need to worry on, for I am Thanos. And Thanos is supreme.

~ Jim Starlin ~

• proposed by Kalki for the official opening date of Avengers: Infinity War

2019

Tempt me no more, for I Have known the lightning's hour, The poet's inward pride, The certainty of power.

~ Cecil Day Lewis ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2020

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2004

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

• selected by Kalki

2005

It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. ~ Terry Pratchett (born 28 April 1948)

• selected by Kalki

2006

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. ~ Karl Kraus (born 28 April 1874)

• selected by Kalki

2007

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. ~ Terry Pratchett

• selected by Kalki

2008

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. ~ Terry Pratchett

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes. ~ Terry Pratchett in Sourcery ~

• proposed by Kalki

2010

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. ~ Terry Pratchett

• proposed by Kalki

2011

“The secret is not to dream … The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me anymore. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.”
I'll never be like this again, she thought, as she saw the terror in the Queen's face. I'll never again feel as tall as the sky and as old as the hills and as strong as the sea. I've been given something for a while, and the price of it is that I have to give it back.
And the reward is giving it back, too. No human could live like this. You could spend a day looking at a flower to see how wonderful it is, and that wouldn't get the milking done. No wonder we dream our way through our lives. To be awake, and see it all as it really is … no one could stand that for long.

~ Terry Pratchett ~
in
The Wee Free Men

• proposed by Kalki

2012

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong. ~ Terry Pratchett

• proposed by Kalki

2013

I wanted you to see what realcourage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

~ Harper Lee ~

• proposed by bystander

2014

Ninety per cent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

~ Terry Pratchett ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

We ARE history! Everything we've ever been on the way to becoming us, we still are. Would you like the rest of the story? I'm made up of the memories of my parents and my grandparents, all my ancestors. They're in the way I look, in the color of my hair. And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think.

~ Terry Pratchett ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

I have never disliked religion. I think it has some purpose in our evolution. I don't have much truck with the 'religion is the cause of most of our wars' school of thought because that is manifestly done by mad, manipulative and power-hungry men who cloak their ambition in God. I number believers of all sorts among my friends. Some of them are praying for me. I'm happy they wish to do this, I really am, but I think science may be a better bet.

~ Terry Pratchett ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

'Good evening, gentlemen!' said the vampire. 'Please pay attention. I am a reformed vampire, which is to say, I am a bundle of suppressed instincts held together with spit and coffee. It would be wrong to say that violent, tearing carnage does not come easily to me. It's not tearing your throats out that doesn't come easily to me. Please don't make it any harder.'

~ Terry Pratchett ~ in ~ Monstrous Regiment ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

Do you know what it feels like to be aware of every star, every blade of grass? Yes. You do. You call it 'opening your eyes again.' But you do it for a moment. We have done it for eternity. No sleep, no rest, just endless … endless experience, endless awareness. Of everything. All the time. How we envy you, envy you! Luckyhumans, who can close your minds to the endless deeps of space! You have this thing you call … boredom? That is the rarest talent in the universe! We heard a song — it went 'Twinkle twinkle little star …' What power! What wondrous power! You can take a billion trillion tons of flaming matter, a furnace of unimaginable strength, and turn it into a little song for children! You build little worlds, little stories, little shells around your minds, and that keeps infinity at bay and allows you to wake up in the morning without screaming!

~ Terry Pratchett ~ in ~ A Hat Full of Sky ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

This is the school, isn't it. The magic place? The world. Here. And you don't realize it until you look. Do you know the pictsies think this world is heaven? We just don't look.

~ Terry Pratchett ~ in ~ The Wee Free Men ~

• proposed by Kalki

2020

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2004

Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it. ~ Muhammad Ali

• selected by Kalki

2005

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. ~ Jerry Seinfeld (born April 29 1954)

• selected by Kalki

2006

Despite the best that has been done by everyone — the gallant fighting of the military and naval forces, the diligence and assiduity of Our servants of the State, and the devoted service of Our one hundred million people — the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest. ~ Hirohito (born 29 April 29 1901)

• selected by Kalki

2007

I have been in a multitude of shapes,
Before I assumed a consistent form.
I have been a sword, narrow, variegated,
I will believe when it is apparent.
I have been a tear in the air,
I have been the dullest of stars.
I have been a word among letters,
I have been a book in the origin.
~ Taliesin ~ (listed as born this date on the WIkipedia date page; traditionally said to have been born just before Beltane — the date of which varies slightly among traditions.)

• selected by Kalki

2008

The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new, but to the continuous evolution of zoologic types which develop ceaselessly and end by becoming unrecognizable to the common sight, but where an expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the past centuries. ~ Henri Poincaré (born April 29, 1854)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

He who hopes to grow in spirit
will have to transcend obedience and respect.
He'll hold to some laws
but he'll mostly violate
both law and custom, and go beyond
the established, inadequate norm.
~ Constantine P. Cavafy ~

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Night has fallen and the barbarians haven't come.
And some of our men who have just returned from the border say
there are no barbarians any longer.

Now what's going to happen to us without barbarians?
Those people were a kind of solution.
~ Constantine P. Cavafy (born April 29, 1863)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2011

If all the parts of the universe are interchained in a certain measure, any one phenomenon will not be the effect of a single cause, but the resultant of causes infinitely numerous. ~ Henri Poincaré

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2012

The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ~ Henri Poincaré

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2013

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

~ Henri Poincaré ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

The scientist does not studynature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worthknowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pureintelligence can grasp.

~ Henri Poincaré ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

Of course many people will have much to say. We should listen. But we won't be deceived by words such as Indispensable, Unique, and Great. Someone else indispensable and unique and great can always be found at a moment's notice.

~ Constantine P. Cavafy ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

To doubteverything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

~ Henri Poincaré ~

• proposed by Kalki

2017

Of what’s to come the wiseperceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing’s troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listenreverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.

~ Constantine P. Cavafy ~

• proposed by Kalki

2018

I look before me at my lighted candles, I don’t want to turn around and see with horror How quickly the dark line is lengthening, How quickly the candles multiply that have been put out.

~ Constantine P. Cavafy ~

• proposed by Kalki

2019

The principal aim of mathematicaleducation is to develop certain faculties of the mind, and among these intuition is not the least precious. It is through it that the mathematical world remains in touch with the real world, and even if pure mathematics could do without it, we should still have to have recourse to it to fill up the gulf that separates the symbol from reality.

~ Henri Poincaré ~

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2020

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2004

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ~ Robert J. Hanlon

• selected by Kalki

2005

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss (born 30 April 1777)

• selected by Kalki

2006

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss (born 30 April 1777)

• selected by Kalki

2007

In a political struggle, never get personal — else the dagger digs too deep. ~ Jack Valenti (recent death)

• selected by Kalki

2008

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. ~ Larry Niven

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance — embracing all opposites. ~ Taisen Deshimaru

• proposed by Kalki

2010

The god of war has gone over to the other side. ~ Adolf Hitler (died April 30)

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance. ~ Taisen Deshimaru (date of death)

• proposed by Zarbon

2012

I mean the wordproof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss

• proposed by Kalki

2013

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

~ Larry Niven ~

• proposed by Kalki

2014

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitelygreater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.

~ Carl Friedrich Gauss ~

• proposed by Kalki

2015

I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hearlaughter around me.

~ Amanda Palmer ~

• proposed by Kalki

2016

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

~ Carl Friedrich Gauss ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2017

I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of theirweaknesses.

~ Adolf Hitler ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2018

We don’t think the world can be Woodstock … Who’d think the world could be a perpetual carnival? But we do think that the world could rediscover values that used to be automatically produced by culture but aren’t anymore because culture is subject to the commodification in our world. Everything is sold back to us, targeted to demographics. What we have to do is make progress in the quality of connection between people, not the quantity of consumption.

~ Larry Harvey ~

• proposed by Kalki, in regard to his recent death.

2019

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

~ Taisen Deshimaru ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2020

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