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Post by Tamrin on Mar 13, 2014 7:05:40 GMT 10
Thursday’s Quotes:To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicateJoseph PriestleyEnglish clergyman and scientist (discovered oxygen) (Born this day 1733) It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 13, 2014 7:07:34 GMT 10
The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points
Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worthwhile than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning
So far as thought may peer into the past, the epic of our solar system began with a great catastrophe. Two suns met. What had been, ceased; what was to be, arose. Fatal to both progenitors, the event dated a stupendous cosmic birth
Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten some- thing more complex, something not unakin to what we know on Earth as life?
If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are inevitably to be expected in the hosts of orbs around him. He learns that, though he will probably never find his double anywhere, he is destined to discover any number of cousins scattered through space
In the great desert of northern Arizona the traveller, threading his way across a sage-brush and cacti plain shut in by abrupt-sided shelves of land rising here and there some hundreds of feet higher, suddenly comes upon a petrified forestPercival LowellAmerican businessman, mathematician and amateur astronomer (Born this day 1855) War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 13, 2014 7:08:16 GMT 10
For the first time, a nation for a continent and a continent for a nation
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian
What we want is a system which, while tolerating all religious beliefs, places them on a footing of perfect equality
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided
I cannot support for a moment any system of education which in the name of denominationalism or under any other name, draws funds from the coffers of the State manifestly for the propagation of creeds and dogmas widely divergentBro. Sir Edmund BartonAustralia’s first Prime Minister (1901 – 1903) (Made a Mason this day 1878) Creating a nation requires the will of the people!
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 13, 2014 7:15:44 GMT 10
I am asking you again to marry me as I did a fortnight ago
She was young enough and inexperienced enough to make many demands upon life — that it should be romantic, that it should, in the issues that it presented, be honest and open and clear, that it should allow her to settle her own place in it without any hurt to anyone else, that it should, in fact, arrange any number of compromises to suit herself and that it should nevertheless be so honest that it would admit of no compromises at all. She approached life with all the reckless boldness of one who has never come into direct contact with it
Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world
I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility with- out complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself
Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things wellSir Hugh WalpoleEnglish writer ( Wintersmoon & Fortitude) (Born this day 1884) It isn't life that matters! It's the courage we bring to it
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 13, 2014 7:16:36 GMT 10
Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights
The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God
I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... how much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex, to talk of male and female education and of male and female schools
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequencesSusan B. AnthonyAmerican suffragist (National Woman Suffrage Association) (Died this day 1906) Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 13, 2014 7:17:50 GMT 10
Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane ... something sacred shows itself to us ... something of a wholly different order, a reality that does not belong to our world, in objects that are an integral part of our natural "profane" world
For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality
One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality , and therefore forgets or despises eternity
Myth is an extremely complex cultural reality, which can be approached and interpreted from various and complementary viewpoints
Whereas "false stories" can be told anywhere and at any time, myths must not be recited except during a period of sacred time (usually in autumn or winter, and only at night)
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time
A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it — the element of the sacredMircea EliadeRomanian -American historian of religion, philosopher and author (Born this day 1907) The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 13, 2014 7:19:46 GMT 10
The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science
Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics
“Master Li, how are we going to murder a man who laughs at axes?” I asked. “We are going to experiment, dear boy. Our first order of business will be to find a deranged alchemist, which should not be very difficult. China,” said Master Li, “is overstocked with deranged alchemists”
“Take a large bowl,” I said. “Fill it with equal measures of fact, fantasy, history, mythology, science, superstition, logic, and lunacy. Darken the mixture with bitter tears, brighten it with howls of laughter, toss in three thousand years of civilization, bellow kan pei — which means “dry cup” — and drink to the dregs.” Procopius stared at me. “And I will be wise?” he asked. “Better,” I said. “You will be Chinese”
The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them
Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can
“Immortality is only for the gods,” he whispered. “I wonder how they can stand it”Barry HughartUS fantasy author ( The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox) (Born this day 1934) Master Li once sold an emperor shares in a mustard mine, because "I was trying to win a bet concerning the intelligence of emperors”
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 13, 2014 7:20:50 GMT 10
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tailsClarence S DarrowUS attorney and agnostic (Scopes Monkey Trial) (Died this day 1938) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 13, 2014 7:28:16 GMT 10
Nobody's free until everybody's free
Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still in this bag together. Not to fight to try to liberate ourselves from the men — this is another trick to get us fighting among our- selves — but to work together with the black man, then we will have a better chance to just act as human beings, and to be treated as human beings in our sick society
With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens
Is this America? The land of the free and the home of the brave? Where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hook, because our lives be threatened daily
We are sick and tired of our people having to go to Vietnam and other places to fight for something we don't have here
To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where we've had so much injustice
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tiredFannie Lou HamerAmerican freedom fighter (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party) (Died this day 1977) They just kept beating me and telling me, “You nigger bitch, we're gonna make you wish you were dead.” ... Every day of my life I pay with the misery of that beating
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 14, 2014 7:18:09 GMT 10
Quotes for the Day:We shall now seek that which we shall not find
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England
For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds
Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed!
For love that time was not as love is nowadays
King Pellinore that time followed the questing beast
In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that handSir Thomas MaloryBritish author ( Le Morte d'Arthur) (Died this day 1471, in London’s Newgate prison) For this was written by a knight prisoner Thomas Malleorre, that God send him good recovery
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