 "Problems loom large, when men don't." (Quoted in Reader's Digest)
Robert James Bidinotto
Robert James Bidinotto
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of all who threaten it.
US Navy Billboard
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds...
Samuel Adams
When we estimate magnitudes through numbers, that is, conceptually, the imagination selects a unit, which it can then repeat indefinitely. But there is a second kind of estimation, which Kant calls "aesthetic estimation," in which the imagination tries to comprehend or encompass the whole representation in one single intuition. There is an upper bound to its capacity. An object whose apparent or conceived size strains this capacity to the limit - threatens to exceed the imagination's power to take it all in at once - has, subjectively speaking, an absolute magnitude: it reaches the felt limit, and appears as if infinite.[...] imagination reaches its maximum capacity, shows its failure and inadequacy when compared to the demands of Reason, and makes us aware, by contrast, of the maginificence of Reason iteslf. The resulting feeling is the feeling of the sublime.
Monroe C. Beardsley
Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
Joseph Stalin
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Robert Silensky
“I know nothing that is greater than the Appassionata. I'd like to listen to it every day. It is marvelous superhuman music. I always think with pride – perhaps it is naive of me – what marvelous things human beings can do! But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell. And now you must not stroke anyone's head: you might get your hand bitten off. You have to hit them on the head, without any mercy, although our ideal is not to use force against anyone. Hm, hm, our duty is infernally hard.”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
quoted by Maxim Gorky (about Beethoven)
The simple fact is, there are people out there who are nothing more than a bipedal cheeseburger. They're a self propelled snack pack looking for someone to eat them. There is no helping the truly consumable among us.
Ken Cook
http://www.selfdefenseforums.com/forums/member.php?find=lastposter&t=8723
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1738
I know that many will call this useless work; and they will be those of whom Demetrius declared that he took no more account of the wind that came out their mouth in words, than of that they expelled from their lower parts: men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that wisdom, which is the food and the only true riches of the mind. For so much more worthy as the soul is than the body, so much more noble are the possessions of the soul than those of the body. And often, when I see one of these men take this work in his hand, I wonder that he does not put it to his nose, like a monkey, or ask me if it something good to eat.
Da Vinci Leonardo
"The Lord works in mysterious ways."
Kallin
Waukesha (Wisconsin) County supervisor Andrew Kallin after a shooting rampage at a local church left seven dead.
Give me the storm and stress of thought and action rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith. Banish me from Eden when you will but first let me eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
Robert Ingersoll
If you had the luck of the Irish, you'd be sorry and wish you were dead... If you had the luck of the Irish, you would wish you were English instead
John Lennon
Happy St. Patricks Day
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
Michelangelo
Truly this world is unfair, as it so obviously favors those who are well-groomed and of pleasant demeanor!
Kyle Baker
Plastic Man 15, May, 2005
Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.
Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall."
Thomas Paine
Fortunately, Solo is not respectable.
Barbara Branden
On Writing forum thread - Post 7
"Now I answer you, I answer you on behalf of myself, and my countrymen. I dont care what your news tells you, what your television and newspapers say, this is how we feel. Despite all that has happened. Despite all the hurt, the pain, blood, sweat and tears. These two years have given us hope we never had."
Husayn Uthman
http://www.coxandforkum.com/
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Johann Sebastian Bach
When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.
Confucius
If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than through our strength
La Rochefoucauld
Maxims
The mind cannot for long play the role of the heart.
La Rochefoucauld
Maxims
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
Confucius
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/14176.html
I am only resolved to act in that manner which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.
Jane Austen
Lizzy to Lady Catherine in _Pride and Prejudice_
You see you can't please ev'ryone so you got to please yourself.
Ricky Nelson
Garden Party
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri
"My party is demonstrating that they are for states' rights unless they don't like what states are doing."
Christopher Shays, Republican Congressman
N.Y. Times
Isn't it beautiful? Isn't it sublime? Isn't it simple? I have solved the problem. Now I can die happy. But I must live, I must return to work and build the motor so I can give it to the world. No more will men be slaves to hard tasks. My motor will set them free, it will do the work of the world.
Nikola Tesla
Upon inventing the AC induction motor, February 1882
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
William Blake
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1746
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams
I was never opposed to the draft
Noam Chomsky
http://blog.zmag.org/index.php/weblog/entry/the_draft/
When reason preaches, if you won't hear her she'll box your ears.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1753
Experience holds a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Fools multiply folly.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac
It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.
Albert Einstein
http://www.loveisearned.com/html/quotations.htm
How can a rational being be ennobled by anything that is not obtained by its own exertions?
Mary Wollstonecraft
Frank, Leonard Roy. Freedom. New York: Random House, 2003.
All change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
A. J. P. Taylor
Frank, Leonard Roy. Freedom. New York: Random House, 2003.
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion."
Kahil Gibran
When we got engaged, she told her friends: 'We're getting married and he's going to buy me a big house with a white picket fence and he's going to work and I'm not.' Ha! Dream on, hooker.
Rodney Carrington
Morning Wood
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, the gnomed mine.
John Keats
Lamia
Taking authorial responsibility for your post is a basic courtesy, so please sign each of your postings.I discourage the use of pseudonyms. Such a practice greatly reduces the value of a posting, and lowers the quality of the list as well. Being responsible for the words that you post is a basic tenet of communication.
Barbara Branden
Another web site
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I love iconoclastic thinking. I love to be intellectually provoked, to have to rethink my assumptions on almost anything. One either strengthens old convictions, by seeing them survive attack, or modifies old convictions and 'grows.'
Joseph H. Friedman, M.D.
No man deserves his freedom or his life who does not daily win them anew
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh
“I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman’s back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good Scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are overrated self-indulgent crap, that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe that there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
Kevin Costner
Crash (Kevin Costner) from Bull Durham
You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible. Maybe you survive.
The Doctor
The End of the World (Doctor Who, Season 27, Episode 2)
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