Daily Quotes

[Tamrin]

Those who become Freemasons only for the sake of finding out the secret of the order,
run a very great risk of growing old under the trowel without ever realizing their purpose.
Yet there is a secret, but it is so inviolable that it has never been confided or whispered to anyone.
Those who stop at the outward crust of things imagine that the secret consists in words, in signs,
or that the main point of it is to be found only in reaching the highest degree.
This is a mistaken view: the man who guesses the secret of Freemasonry,
and to know it you must guess it, reaches that point only through long attendance in the lodges,
through deep thinking, comparison, and deduction.

He would not trust that secret to his best friend in Freemasonry,
because he is aware that if his friend has not found it out,
he could not make any use of it after it had been whispered in his ear.
No, he keeps his peace, and the secret remains a secret.

Giovanni Giacomo Casanova, Memoirs, Volume 2a, Paris, p. 33

[Tamrin]

Quote for the Day:

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default:
by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966

[Tamrin]

Quote for the Day:

It has often been noted that a proof of God would be fatal to religion:
a God susceptible of proof would have to be finite and limited;
He would be one entity among others within the universe,
not a mystic omnipotence transcending science and reality.
What nourishes the spirit of religion is not proof,
but faith, i.e., the undercutting of man's mind.

Leonard Peikoff, "'Maybe You're Wrong,'"
The Objectivist Forum, 12 April 1981

[Tamrin]

By all means let’s be open-minded,
but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Richard Dawkins

[Tamrin]

Quote for the Day:

Inheritor of a dying world, we call thee to the living beauty.
Wanderer in the wild darkness, we call thee to the gentle light.
Long hast thou dwelt in darkness — Quit the night and seek the day.

Anon.

[maximus]

Sept 15, 2008 6:56:54 GMT 10 Tamrin said:

Quote for the Day:

Inheritor of a dying world, we call thee to the living beauty.
Wanderer in the wild darkness, we call thee to the gentle light.
Long hast thou dwelt in darkness — Quit the night and seek the day.

Anon.

This is from the Neophyte ritual of the G:.D:.

I use it as my signature line on LRUS.

[Tamrin]

Very apt!

[Tamrin]

Quotes for the Day:

Great things are not done by impulse
but by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent van Gogh


Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world:
Indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead


The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself,
often well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated.

Bryce Courtney

[Tamrin]

"First with the head and then with the heart" was more than simply mixing brains with guts.
It meant thinking well beyond the powers of normal concentration
and then daring your courage to follow your thoughts.

Bryce Courtney

[Tamrin]

Truth is one, and so is light, yet how many shades of it.

Anonymous Irish Poet


Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are

George Santayana