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Post by Tamrin on Jan 28, 2014 9:15:53 GMT 10
2 of 2:Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sinThomas Aquinas(Died this day 1274) Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 28, 2014 9:16:28 GMT 10
Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we sailed too close to the shore
Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the waters of life, having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity, and in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the new heaven to dim
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas, where storms will show your mastery, where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizon of our hopes, and to push us into the future in strength, courage, hope, and love. This we ask in the name of our Captain, who is Jesus Christ
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory
I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman ... I would know him that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here
There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is betterSir Francis DrakeEnglish Vice Admiral, privateer, navigator, politician and civil engineer (Died this day 1596) The singeing of the King of Spain's Beard(the expedition to Cadiz)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 28, 2014 9:18:25 GMT 10
I am a sincere man from where the palm tree grows, and before I die I wish to pour forth the verses from my soul
Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy
To govern well, one must see things as they are
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical
Everything that divides men, everything that specified, separates or pens them, is a sin against humanity
The bad ones only succeed there where the good ones are indifferent
Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged forBro. José MartíCuban national hero & author (Born this day 1853) It is necessary to make virtue fashionable
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 28, 2014 9:19:02 GMT 10
There is only one sure recipe for success in any field of endeavor: Determination, close application to details, plus hard work and then more hard work
Years of experience have taught me that there are three highly important factors entering into the success of any large manufacturing organization, and these factors are machinery, methods, and men. And the last is, perhaps, the most important of all
It is obvious that no organization can become of higher caliber than the men who comprise it and direct its various activities. Therefore, when the Nash Motors Company was about to become a reality this problem of men was the most important I had to face. For I knew that, if I could surround myself with men of broad and successful experience, my success would be practically assured
Unproductive labor and waste are two things a manufacturer has to fight. It is not labor costs that cut into profits; it is the cost of unproductive labor — that and waste of material. These two things require constant attention
Ordinarily, Nash Motors never has on hand more than a full month's supply of materials. Certain items, of course, are bought well ahead, but others are sched- uled so closely that they come in every week. As contracted with a plant where raw materials do not turn more often than once a year, there is a tremendous difference in the matter of floor space, interest charges and insurance, to say nothing of the hazard attendant upon the possibility of an abrupt change in business conditions
We don't pretend to know it all here at the factory … The Nash product is the result of cooperation, extended by our partners in the business, the Nash dealers
I have studied this traffic congestion problem by noting the types of cars in the endless stream of vehicles seen on all the main thoroughfares in the leading cities of our country, and I am firmly convinced that the traffic congestion problem is being relieved by the smaller wheel base car, as contrasted with the heavy and very long cars which were seen in a higher proportion half-a-dozen years ago than to-dayBro. Charles W. NashUS founder of Nash Motors Co. (Buick) (Born this day 1864) Selling is 90 per cent a production problem
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 28, 2014 9:19:29 GMT 10
Be happy. It's one way of being wise
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you
Total absence of humor renders life impossible
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger
If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner"Sidonie Gabrielle" Colette, French novelist (Born this day 1873) You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 28, 2014 9:20:03 GMT 10
Life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there
Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: Yourself
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen
It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas
What then are we doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodnessAlan AldaAmerican actor, writer and director (Born this day 1936) Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 28, 2014 9:20:43 GMT 10
In dreams begins responsibility
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it
Be secret and exult, because of all things known that is most difficult
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution
How can we know the dancer from the dance?William Butler YeatsIrish poet and dramatist (Fr. Golden Dawn) (Died this day 1939) Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 28, 2014 9:21:12 GMT 10
Man is what he reads
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change — within himself, not on the outside
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot
Snobbery? But it's only a form of despairJoseph BrodskySoviet-Russian-American poet and essayist (Died this day 1996) Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2014 7:25:13 GMT 10
Wednesday’s Quotes:First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own
To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it
For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evilEmanuel SwedenborgSwedish engineer and religious leader ( Angelic Wisdom) (Born this day 1688) What is true is true, and what is false is false
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2014 7:26:22 GMT 10
1 of 2:A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice
For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests cannot, or that the Bible does not
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel manThomas PaineU.K. / U.S., political essayist ( Origin of Free-Masonry) (Born this day 1737) Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true
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