First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Gurdjieff The difference between a hooker and a ho ain't nothin' but a fee. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. Clement Stone We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. Toynbee Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. Ingersoll Love loves to love love.
But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. Chesterton I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for TV. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against it want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it Now we have some hope of making progress.
Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is, remarkably, their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again?
Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. I could'a had class. I could'a been a contender. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Or else as if the world were wholly fair, but that these eyes of men are dense and dim, and have not power to see it as it is: I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing.
The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad. White in The Once and Future King You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children — not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women — not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.
Kennedy Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. Chesterton Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken and that he only failed to see all sides.
To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Spurgeon It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. I don't know when — but just saying it could even make it happen.
It is also commonly translated as " Called or uncalled, God is present. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts For too long we have gotten by in a society that says the only thing right is to get by and the only thing wrong is to get caught. Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking Watts A man should be upright, not kept upright. Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. Mencken No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
1. "The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves."
These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. September There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.
Slow is the ascent by the path of Love. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.
That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind.
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But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him. There is all the difference in the world. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance.
Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love. Wells At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. It seems to be derived from this statement attributed to a specific author: Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it.
But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. If you're alive, it isn't. There is no try. The Empire Strikes Back These children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through If that is granted, all else follows.
You've just got to keep the faith. The game is not over until the last out. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. I'm against the misuse of God. Huxley We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun.
The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. November The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. Bush The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax — Of cabbages — and Kings — And why the Sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should entertain his guest generously.
And anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep quiet. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact. Krishnamurti Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men's souls to joy.
The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure and are awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Each single angel is terrifying. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Chesterton From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring, Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. The Tree that was withered shall be renewed, and he shall plant it in the high places, and the City shall be blessed.
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Tolkien From The Lord of the Rings: In the winter season, for seven days of calm, Alcyone broods over her nest on the surface of the waters while the sea-waves are quiet. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed. Dance, then, wherever you may be, I am the Lord of the Dance, said he, And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be, And I'll lead you all in the Dance, said he. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is?
Salinger Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight — always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? Barrie Wikiqoute Quote of the day for the th anniversary of the first public performance of Peter Pan. Physics isn't the most important thing. And down the wave and in the flame was borne A naked babe If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were.
I must not fail to do the something that I can do. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Kennedy The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged.
It is history that teaches us to hope. Lee The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. Bush An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world. The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.
The Tao nourishes by not forcing. By not dominating, the Master leads. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of the truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace. Wells Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.
In that purer light, people will come to see themselves in each other, which is to say they will make themselves known to one another by their similarities rather than by their differences. Man's knowledge of things will begin to be matched by man's knowledge of self. The significance of a smaller world will be measured not in terms of military advantage, but in terms of advantage for the human community. It will be the triumph of the heartbeat over the drumbeat. There is only an up or down — up to a man's age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
Heinlein in Stranger in a Strange Land All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being. I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgement of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavor to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
Yet I hold that completely erroneous views should be shunned. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity. Thompson We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on. Little darling, It seems like years since it's been clear. Here comes the sun Here comes the sun, And I say It's alright.
Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man, has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. Seuss Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it! I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. They should also govern it. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you.
Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered. 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. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: 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.
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. At the center humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.
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'. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them. Murrow If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
Barrie The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. So a man who is trying to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. Krishnamurti Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. So I believe that dreams — day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing — are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.
The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. Frank Baum You say that you are my judge. I don't know if you are — but take care not to judge wrongly, lest you place yourself in great danger. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn. White The liberty of man consists solely in this: Mark Felt A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted.
The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The "taken for granted" is the test of sanity In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true.
The challenge is to sow doubt. There is a preference for candy bars. Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life — for the past five years. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but — the content of the role itself — I find there are many roles.
It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony and even justice. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to people, even those I've never met.
I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop and to express all that's inside me! It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.
To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher. It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea. Religion is a boundary condition. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with new ones.
They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing: The Foreign Office is terribly pleased, it's just like old times. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.
It is there, though; not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. For events as well as for men, the stock company is not enough; geniuses are needed among men, and revolutions among events. Great accidents are the law; the order of things cannot get along without them; and, to see the apparitions of comets, one would be tempted to believe that Heaven itself is in need of star actors.
Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just. Heinlein Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. Right through the ages there were Jews. Through the ages they suffered, but it also made us strong. To believe all men honest would be folly.
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective. Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.
You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. I see Heaven's glories shine, And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear. I'd take him out for a meal and apologise for everything I've put him through. Rowling August From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space. It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, and they never will because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith.
Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it. It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.
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Simak My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! Learn as if you were to live forever. Eisenhower Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places. Ingersoll Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. Chesterton To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: Lawrence Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.
If you continue to hate, you are entering into the same philosophy that began the war. You have to look forward at people and new times. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. I have a dream today I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. What role does silence have in all this noise? Its role is no more to exclusively uphold the claims of the individual than it is to exclusively uphold the claims of the government: It must hold the constitutional balance true between these claims.
They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. Pirsig I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. McKay Love is life.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
Mencken Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.
And no good thing ever dies. My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. You can't start a fire — you can't start a fire without a spark. This gun's for hire — even if we're just dancing in the dark. Scott Fitzgerald Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Could you see the guy who was driving? Could you climb higher and higher? Could you climb right over the top? But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone3 fil. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist.
If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we would know the mind of God. Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax.
The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. And the story of a love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Whom do they hate most? Him who breaketh up their tables of values, the breaker, the law-breaker — he, however, is the creator. Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses — and not herds or believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh — those who grave new values on new tables. Always hold in your heart the pride of your special heritage.
They can be a great people, Kal-El — they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. The Movie We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. I mean, even all the best rebels to me had some sense of hope in them. And drugs are not central to my life. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. Byrd I know that it will hurt, I know that it will break your heart, the way things are, and the way they've been. Don't spread the discontent, don't spread the lies, don't make the same mistakes with your own life. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue, And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true. No sir, you can look through everything I ever did write or say, and you never did hear me tell a joke about any mother-in-law — or any creed, color or religion, either.
Kennedy If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains that victory. Patton Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require.
Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements. Love, and do what thou wilt: That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Schulz Put every great teacher together in a room, and they'd agree about everything; put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.
It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. You killed my father. I think that the worst thing you could say is that he is, basically, an under-achiever. I do believe that if there is something like a political life-to-be — to remain for us, in this world of technology — then it begins with friendship.
To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. It is a burst of Heaven-shaking thunder; It is a linnet's fluting after rain. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. The best and the worst In other words, I had a life.
It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned but not bought.
Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute. If you're afraid you don't commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. Dick I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions, and by the depth of our answers. Patton My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.
Nicholas soon would be there. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? We can only make them right by discussion. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die. Forster How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection That is all wrong.
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.
For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age? The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want The fourth is freedom from fear That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.
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There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. It will begin anew with love; it will start out naked and tiny; it will take root in the wilderness, and to it all that we did and built will mean nothing — our towns and factories, our art, our ideas will all mean nothing, and yet life will not perish! Only we have perished. Our houses and machines will be in ruins, our systems will collapse, and the names of our great will fall away like dry leaves.
Only you, love, will blossom on this rubbish heap and commit the seed of life to the winds. The ones who learn by observation. See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. A friend is someone who will help you move.
A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a dead body. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is. Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning. There are two kinds of friends: A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. The transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
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There are 5 people in my family, so it must be one of them. Or my older brother Colin. Or my younger brother Ho-Cha-Chu. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies. Ever notice that people who spend money on beer, cigarettes, and lottery tickets are always complaining about being broke and not feeling well?
I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. The best thing about living at the beach is that you only have assholes on three sides of you. Why is it that in the US: If you take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, terrified citizens will phone the police and report: Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly. At every party there are two kinds of people: The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older. Then it dawned on me… they were cramming for their finals. You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. You have two choices in life: You can stay single and be miserable, or get married and wish you were dead.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone. The difference between divorce and legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money.
Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel shamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. Children in the back seats of cars cause accidents, but accidents in the back seats of cars cause children.
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