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Post by Tamrin on Feb 1, 2014 6:31:06 GMT 10
Saturday’s Quotes:Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason — the law which is perfection of reason
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose
So use your own property as not to injure that of another
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is greatSir Edward CokeEnglish jurist & politician (defended common law) (Born this day 1552) Magna Carta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 1, 2014 6:31:37 GMT 10
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil
A king is always a king — and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye
It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the worldMary Wollstonecraft ShelleyBritish novelist, short story writer and travel writer, ( Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus) (Died this day 1851) We are tomorrow's past
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 1, 2014 6:32:22 GMT 10
It's such a bore being always poor
When people care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you
Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line
Negroes — Sweet and docile, meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day — They change their mindLangston Hughes, US poet & translator (Born this day 1902 & died this day 1967) I will not take “but” for an answer
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 1, 2014 6:32:52 GMT 10
Beware the ire of the calm
All my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life
One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full
The word 'education' comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion, from the Latin root prefix in meaning in and the stem trudo, I thrust
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever- present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggsDame Muriel Spark, DBEScottish author ( The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) (Born this day 1918) These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 1, 2014 6:34:37 GMT 10
Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky
Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone. his is something that politicians in particular must keep in mind
Dissidents should be paid 13 months' salary for a year, otherwise our mindless unanimity will bring us to an even more hopeless state of stagnation. It is especi- ally 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
A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying
Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... they must not be allowed to bring eternal night
I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people
You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on itBoris YeltsinRussian politician (first post-Soviet president) (Born this day 1931) A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 1, 2014 6:35:15 GMT 10
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create itJohan HuizingaDutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history (Died this day 1945) You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 1, 2014 6:35:49 GMT 10
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them
Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language
The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form — the one of the particles, the other of the waves — are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioningWerner C. HeisenbergGerman theoretical physicist (Died this day 1976) There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 1, 2014 6:36:20 GMT 10
There are more of them than us
The trouble with born again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything
I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on foreverHerb CaenUS Pulitzer Prize- winning columnist (Died this day 1997) Cogito ergo spud(“I think, therefore I yam”)
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 2, 2014 18:04:01 GMT 10
Sunday’s Quotes:1 of 2:The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities ... A life is beautiful and ideal, or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thoughtHavelock EllisBritish-Australian physician and sexologist ( Psychology of Sex) (Born this day 1859) What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 2, 2014 18:04:52 GMT 10
2 of 2:Man lives by imagination
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion
The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedyHavelock Ellis(Born this day 1859) Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
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