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Post by Tamrin on Jan 11, 2014 8:10:26 GMT 10
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it
Some folk want their luck butteredThomas Hardy, OMEnglish son of an operative master mason, novelist and poet ( The Abbey Mason) (Died this day 1928) I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 11, 2014 8:12:08 GMT 10
Only the madman is absolutely sure
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals
There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped
Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation
A true initiation never endsRobert Anton WilsonAmerican novelist, essayist, Absurdist philosopher (Died this day 2007) Illuminatus! vs Atlas ShruggedI don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 12, 2014 7:20:09 GMT 10
Sunday’s Quotes:The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world
To wait so long and want a man refined and strong is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years without a tear, without a care makes for a very rare woman
After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood
Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle
The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled
The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased
The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himselfCharles PerraultFrench complier of fairy tales ( Cinderella; Sleeping Beauty) (Born this day 1628) I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 12, 2014 7:21:28 GMT 10
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creationBro. Edmund BurkeAnglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher (Born this day 1797) When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 12, 2014 7:22:24 GMT 10
It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system and to have none. One must thus decide to join the two
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time
Morality without sense for paradox is vulgar
Prudishness is pretence of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education
People who are so eccentric that they are completely serious in being and becoming virtuous understand one another in everything, find one another easily, and form a silent opposition against the prevailing immorality that pretends to be morality
Only a man who is at one with the world can be at one with himself
Virtue is reason which has become energyFriedrich von SchlegelGerman poet, critic and scholar (Died this day 1829) To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 12, 2014 7:23:17 GMT 10
God of Truth, be Thou alone my guide
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living beingVivekananda, Hindu religious leader, reformer (Born this day 1863) I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 12, 2014 7:24:01 GMT 10
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club
Affluence means influenceJack LondonUS writer, socialist ( Call of the Wild) (Born this day 1876) Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 12, 2014 7:24:45 GMT 10
Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear
Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or with- out imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking
Nonviolence and legal action must be twin weapons – either one being used when it seems to be most applicable, with each bolstering the other
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people
Racism was the belief that race has something to do with intelligence, character and morality. Racism was a concept that some races are inferior and others are superior. That’s a lie
If you say no to racism and encourage your children to make friendships across racial lines, you can make a difference in one generation
Words are not enough. There must be actionJames Farmer, US civil rights leader (Born this day 1920) Evil societies always kill their consciences
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 12, 2014 7:25:34 GMT 10
I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations
Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams — but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile
Some scholars have estimated that in the three centuries that the Euro- pean slave trade flourished, the African continent has lost one hundred million of its people. No one, to my knowledge, has ever paid repar- ations to the descendants of black men; indeed, they have not yet really acknowledged the fact of the crime against humanity, which was the conquest of Africa. But then — history has not yet been concluded — has it?
We only revert back to mystical ideas — which includes most contemporary orthodox religious views, in my opinion — because we simply are confronted with some things we don’t yet understand
When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right ... Make sure you done take into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got wherever he is
If by some miracle women should not ever utter a single protest against their condition there would still exist among men those who could not endure in peace until her liberation had been achieved
Children see things very well sometimes — and idealists even betterLorraine HansberryAfrican-American author and playwright (Died this day 1965) Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 12, 2014 7:26:36 GMT 10
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than humanAgatha ChristieBritish mystery writer ( 10 Little Indians) (Died this day 1976) Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity
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