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Post by Tamrin on Mar 2, 2014 7:50:13 GMT 10
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened
I meant what I said and I said what I meantDr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)US children's book author ( Green Eggs and Ham) (Born this day 1904) Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 2, 2014 7:51:03 GMT 10
Never trust the teller, trust the tale
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar
We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known
We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great — quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it
Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life
Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peaceD. H. LawrenceEnglish poet and novelist (Lady Chatterley's Lover) (Died this day 1930) This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 2, 2014 7:52:52 GMT 10
A cult is a religion with no political power
The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved
You can't go home againTom WolfeUS author and journalist (“New Journalism”) (Born this day 1931) The surest cure for vanity is loneliness
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 2, 2014 7:53:47 GMT 10
If not me, who? And if not now, when?
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement... in relations between the two great nations on Earth
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much todayMikhail Gorbachevlast USSR Premier ( “Perestroika" & “Glasnost”) (Born this day 1931) My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 2, 2014 7:55:29 GMT 10
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense
Good habits are worth being fanatical about
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either
You can't learn everything you need to know legally
Your memory is a monster; you forget — it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you — and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleepJohn IrvingUS novelist and screenwriter ( The World According to Garp) (Born this day 1942) Half my life is an act of revision
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 2, 2014 7:58:13 GMT 10
Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security and liberty, and unless we give them both — and we can if we try — we have failed
Of course, there is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to open your mail, eaves- drop on your phone conversations, or intercept your email communications; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to hold people in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, then the govern- ment would no doubt discover and arrest more terrorists. But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. And that would not be a country for which we could, in good conscience, ask our young people to fight and die. In short, that would not be America
We, as a Congress, have to stand up to a president who acts like the Bill of Rights and the Constitution were repealed on September 11
I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans with no connection to terrorism
The President was blunt, so I will be blunt: This program is breaking the law, and this President is breaking the law. Not only that, he is misleading the American people in his efforts to justify this program
Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic
It's time to stand up — not to cheer, but to fight backRussell D. FeingoldUS politician (D), Senator from Wisconsin (Born this day 1953) How is that worthy of applause? Since when do we celebrate our commander in chief for violating our most basic freedoms, and misleading the American people in the process? When did we start to stand up and cheer for breaking the law? In that moment at the State of the Union, I felt ashamed
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 2, 2014 7:59:18 GMT 10
They think they are free because they have never been free, and do not know what it means
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words
I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the H-bomb lurking about. Science has given us more lives than it has taken; we must remember that
[Insanity] is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate — confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man
Crazy people do not apply the principle of scientific parsimony ... they shoot for the baroque
Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insanePhilip K. DickUS novelist, short story writer and essayist (Died this day 1982) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 3, 2014 7:52:03 GMT 10
Monday’s Quotes:Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, that stand upon the threshold of the new
The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest
Though with judgment we on things reflect, our will determines, not our intellect
In other things the knowing artist may, judge better than the people; but a play, (made for delight, and for no other use), If you approve it not, has no excuse
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round
Give us enough but with a sparing handEdmund Waller, FRSEnglish poet ( Penshust) and politician (Born this day 1606) Virtue's a stronger guard than brass
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 3, 2014 7:52:46 GMT 10
He that loves reading has everything within his reach
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire
If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such
Justice is the sum of all moral dutyWilliam GodwinBritish "father of philosophical anarchism" (Born this day 1756) God himself has no right to be a tyrant
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 3, 2014 7:55:35 GMT 10
The essence of mathematics lies entirely in its freedom
Mathematics is in its development entirely free and is only bound in the self- evident respect that its concepts must both be consistent with each other, and also stand in exact relationships, ordered by definitions, to those concepts which have previously been introduced and are already at hand and established
In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems
Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality
The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds
There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated
Each potential infinite, if it is rigorously applicable mathematically, presupposes an actual infiniteGeorg CantorRussian-born mathematician & philosopher ( Cantor’s theorem) (Born this day 1845) My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer
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