Daily Quotes

[Tamrin]

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense


You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough


As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered
that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and
insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity


Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles
wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes
hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied


Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one
weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by
which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped ... in the individual, and in the race


In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and of no
matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him,
too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life;
toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God


A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children


James Agee
US novelist, screenwriter, journalist and poet
(Born this day 1909)



You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition

[Tamrin]

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough


Put every great teacher together in a room, and they'd agree about everything,
put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything


Man, the living creature, the creating individual,
is always more important than any established style or system


It's not the daily increase but daily decrease.
Hack away at the unessential


If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else.
It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There
are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them


All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability.
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns


Take things as they are.
Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick


Bruce Lee
Chinese-American Martial arts expert (Jeet Kune Do), philosopher and actor
(Born this day 1940)



Bruce Lee (right) with Master Yip Man (Wing Chun expert)

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person

[Tamrin]

Acting funny, but I don't know why, 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky


I'm a Voodoo Child, Voodoo Child, Lord knows I am a Voodoo Child


We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken
some little thing in their minds ... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people


I used to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me


I take my spirit and I smash my mirrors, and now the whole world is here for me to see


Castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually


Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?


Jimi Hendrix
American guitarist, singer and songwriter
(Born this day 1942)



I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die,
so let me live my life the way I want to

[Tamrin]

Quotes for the Day:

The more he cast away the more he had


Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson;
but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them


If we have not quiet in our minds,
outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot


Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy,
the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love


No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness


If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance;
for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder


My sword I give to him that shall succeed me
in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it


John Bunyan
English cleric and author (Pilgrim's Progress)
(Born this day 1628)



So I awoke, and behold it was a dream

[Tamrin]

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life


Think in the morning. Act in the noon.
Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night


Prisons are built with stones of Law.
Brothels with the bricks of religion


To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour


If the doors of perception were cleansed
everything would appear to man as it is, infinite


Eternity is in love with the productions of time


If a thing loves, it is infinite


William Blake
English poet and painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience)
(Born this day 1757)



I have very little of Mr Blake's company. He is always in Paradise

(Mrs William Blake)

[Tamrin]

All history has been a history of class struggles between
dominated classes at various stages of social development


Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force
them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them ... 'If you
don't like to be frizzled in my frying-pan, you can take a walk into the fire"


People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they
have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic
republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of
one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy


Wherever we find life we find it associated with an albuminous body,
and wherever we find an albuminous body not in a process of
dissolution, there also without exception we find phenomena of life


The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians
and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had
even already analysed the most essential forms of dialectical thought


Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal


Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from
natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility
this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends


Friedrich Engels
German social philosopher (Marx's collaborator)
(Born this day 1820)



Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of
the late seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist”

[Tamrin]

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes


He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not
upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart


The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself
down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes


Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage
and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles


There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never
dreads contact and communion with others however humble


After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I
have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though
deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty


A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue
is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use


Washington Irving
American author (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle)
(Died this day 1859)



Well, I must arrange my pillows for another weary night!
When will this end?

(last words)

[Tamrin]

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites.
Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed


Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from
the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come


In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment
and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour


Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests,
must eventually collapse within itself


In history, the moments during which reason
and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting


When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most
copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process


One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others


Stefan Zweig
Austrian poet, essayist and dramatist (Beware of Pity)
(Born this day 1881)



It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world

[Tamrin]

I am still today a soldier and only a soldier


Since I am an immature and wicked man, war and unrest appeal to me more than good
bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear
someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive


Adolf is a swine. He will give us all away. He only associates with reactionaries now.
His old friends aren't good enough for him. Getting matey with the East Prussian
generals. They're his cronies now. Adolf is turning into a gentleman. He's got him-
self a tail-coat now. Adolf knows exactly what I want. I've told him often enough.
Not a second edition of the old imperial army. Are we revolutionaries or aren't we?


Allons, enfants de la patrie! If we are, then something new must arise out of our élan,
like the mass armies of the French Revolution. If we're not, then we'll go to the dogs.
We've got to produce something new, don't you see? A new discipline. A new princ-
iple of organization. The generals are a lot of old fogeys. They never had a new idea


Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that.
Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands
of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know!


If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be
prepared to use force — not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution


If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself!


Ernst Röhm
Nazi thug, founded Nazi Brownshirts (SA)
(a potential rival to Hitler, murdered in the Night of the Long Knives)
(Born this day 1887)



He is thinking about the peasant girls. When they stand in the fields and bend
down at their work so that you can see their behinds, that's what he likes,
especially when they've got big round ones. That's Hitler's sex life. What a man

(said in Hitler's presence)

[Tamrin]

Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it


I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how
myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact


One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that
men choose their beliefs independently of their situation


If we judge the achievements of other social groups in relation to the kind of object-
ives we set ourselves, we have at times to acknowledge their superiority; but in doing
so we acquire the right to judge them, and hence to condemn all their other objectives
which do not coincide with those we approve of. We implicitly acknowledge that our
society with its customs and norms enjoys a privileged position, since an observer
belonging to another social group would pass different verdicts on the same examples


This being so, how can the study of anthropology claim to be scientific?
To reestablish an objective approach, we must abstain from making judg-
ments of this kind. We must accept the fact that each society has made a
certain choice, within the range of existing human possibilities, and that the
various choices cannot be compared with each other: they are all equally valid

But in this case a new problem arises; while in the first instance we were in danger of falling
into obscurantism, in the form of a blind refusal of everything foreign to us, we now run the
risk of accepting a kind of eclecticism which would prevent us denouncing any feature of a
given culture — not even cruelty, injustice and poverty, against which the very society suffer-
ing these ills may be protesting. And since these abuses also exist in our society what right
have we to combat them at home, if we accept them as inevitable when they occur elsewhere?


Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing


Claude Levi-Strauss
Belgium anthropologist & ethnologist (Structural Anthropology)
(Born this day 1908)



The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions