"Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries."
Mark Twain
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" Sapere aude" Latin > English = Dare to know!
"Have the courage to use your own understanding, "
- Immanuel Kant
"Indulge your passion for science, says she, but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which they involve you, and by the cold reception which your pretended discoveries shall meet with, when communicated. Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man."
- David Hume (Treatise on Human Understanding.)
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
-Buddha
But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ... Reason and free enquiry are the only effectual agents against error" Thomas Jefferson
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
Wendell Holmes
"Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason ( which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument. Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga
Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.
Bertrand Russell
The Age of Reason: “Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God. It … has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. Thomas Paine
Better by far to embrace the hard truth then a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose let us find ourselves a worthy goal. - Carl Sagan
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Faith means making
a virtue out of not thinking
It's nothing to brag about
And those who preach faith
and enable and elevate it
are our intellectual slaveholders
keeping mankind in a bondage
to fantasy and nonsense
that has spawned and justified
so much lunacy and destruction.
Religion is dangerous
because it allows human being
who don't have all the answers
to think that they do.
Bill Maher - Religulous
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
David Hume
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness.
Marx
The fool who knows that he is a fool is for that very reason a wise man; the fool who thinks that he is wise is called a fool indeed. - Dhammapada
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”—Confucius
"Be who you are and say what you feel because
those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Dr. Seuss
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
- Carl Sagan-
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leonardo da Vinci
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."
Nikola Tesla
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and
admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!
--Shakespeare--
Saul of Tarsus, later to be claimed as “Saint Paul,” to the Philippians (chapter 4, verse 8): "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
"At present mankind is undergoing an evolutionary crisis in which is concealed a choice of its destiny; for a stage has been reached in which the human mind has achieved in certain directions an enormous development,while in others it stands arrested and bewildered and can no longer find its way...Man has created a system of civilization which has become too big for his limited mental capacity and understanding and his still more limited spiritual and moral capacity to utilize and manage, a too dangerous servant of his blundering ego and its appetites."
-- Sri Aurobindo; Chap. 28, p. 1053 The Life Divine --
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars,
Walt Whitman
"Before Buddha or Jesus spoke,
the nightingale sang, and long after
the words of Jesus and Buddha
are gone into oblivion,
the nightingale still will sing.
Because it is neither preaching
nor commanding nor urging.
It is just singing."
- D. H. Lawrence
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
William Wordsworth
Maxims from Mark Twain
William Edelin
Einsteins Quotes
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Let old men burn and rave at the close of day.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Let old men burn and rave at the close of day.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously.
The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.
- - Margaret Fontey
"Luminous Beings Are We. Not This Crude Matter"
-- Yoda (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away)
The most beautiful thing that we can experience is the mysterious.
He who cannot feel this wonder is dead. His eyes and heart are closed.
--Albert Einstein --
The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes.
Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them ...
--Bertrand Russsell--
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
There is in every village a torch - the teacher:
and an extinguisher - the clergyman.
Hobbs
Many people would sooner die then think. In fact they do.
Bertrand Russell
Because each new generation of children is taught that religious propositions need not be justified in the way others must, civilization is still besieged by armies of the preposterous.
Sam Harris - The End of Faith
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by and idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
--MacBeth, V:5
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and, if they can't find them, make them.
- -- George Bernard Shaw --
Happiness - by Hermann Hesse
"We don't inherit the world from our parents, we borrow it from our children."
-Sioux Indians
"Do every act as if it were your last."
-Marcus Aurelius
"It is not enough to have a good mind-the main thing is to use it well."
-Rene Descartes
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
-Luke IV 31
"Kindness is the language which the dumb can speak,and the deaf can understand."
-C.N. Bovee
"Live as if everything you do will eventually be known."
-Hugh Prather
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
-Confucius
"Take care of the land, and it will take care of you. Take what you need from the
land,but need what you take."
-Aboriginal Law
"A "no" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than
a "yes" uddered merely to please, or what is worse to avoid trouble."
-Mahatma Ghandi
"What would you attempT to do if you knew you could not fail?"
-Dr.Robert Schuller
"...if you are afraid of dying then you are afraid of living."
-Rocky Aoki
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but
the best, you very often get it."
-W.Sommerset Maugham
"Arrogance is ignorance matured."
"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."
"'Tis better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all."
-Shakespeare
"All the world's a stage and all the people on it are merely players."
-Shakespeare
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
-Shakespeare
"If you drop a hammer on your foot,
it's hardly useful to get mad at the hammer."
-William Riker
"We don't inherit the world from our parents, we borrow it from
our children."
-Sioux Indians
"When a man is convinced he's going to die tomorrow, he'll probably
find a way to make it happen."
-Guinan
"Carpe Diem" (Seize the day)
"Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting;
it is not logical but it is often true."
-Spock
"False face must hide what false heart doth know."
-Shakespeare
"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back, it's yours.
If it doesn't it never was."
"Tell a man there are 400 billion stars... he'll believe you.
Tell him a bench has wet paint...he has to touch it."
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Because, if
you do it today and like it, you can do it again."
"Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many."
"Truth hurts-not the searching after, the running from."
"The bitterest tear shed over graves are the words left unsaid
and deeds left undone."
-Harriet Stowe
"Examine what is said not him who speaks."
-Arabian Proverb
"Let us live so when we die even the undertaker will be sorry."
-Mark Twain
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die,or when.
You can decide how you're going to live now."
-Joan Baez
"Always do right. This will amaze most people, and astonish the rest."
-Mark Twain
"All our dreams can come true-if we have the courage to pursue them."
-Walt Disney
"It is never to late to be what you might have been."
-George Eliot
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
-Anais Nin
"Come to the edge. He said. They said, we are afraid. Come to the
edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew."
-Guillaume Apollinaire
"Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm."
-Malayan Proberb
"He who asks is a fool for 5 minutes, but he who does not ask
remains a fool forever."
-Chinese Proverb
"If a man is destined to drown, he'll drown even in a spoonful."
-Yiddish Proverb
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind
for revealing them to the trees."
-Khalil Gibran
"Blessed is the man who has learned to admire without envy, to follow without mimicking,
to praise without flattery, and to lead without manipulation."
"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember.
Involve me and I'll understand."
- Native American Proverb
"We know the worth of a thing when we lost it."
-French Proverb
"Always give honest and scincere appreciation."
-Amit Shah
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."
-Foka Gomez
"Clowns wear a face that's painted intentionally on them so they
appear to be happy or sad. What kind of mask are you wearing today?"
-Face Value
"All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward.
Sometimes to Death, but always to victory."
-Kings Guard Ancient Greece
"When there is hope, there is life."
-Estelle
"All glory comes from daring to begin."
-Eugene F. Ware
"The more sand that escaped from the hourglass of our life,
the clearer we should see through it."
-Jean Paul
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this
constantly in mind.Weak desire brings weak results,
just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat."
-Napoleon Hill
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the
source from which self-respect springs."
-Joan Didion
"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."
-Richard Bach
"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet."
-Emily Dickinson
"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."
"If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want
to grow anymore."
-Shirley Hufstedler
"The past is history, the future is a mystery, today is a gift that's
why we call it the present."
"You may have to fight a battle more than once just to win it."
-Margaret Thatcher
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up."
"The scars you acquire by exercising courage
will never make you feel inferior."
-D.A.Battista
"About the only thing that comes without effort is old age."
"Friendships mutiply joys and divide grief."
-Thomas Fuller
"One person with a belief is equal to the force of ninety-nine who
have only interests."
-John Stewart Mill
"They can because they think they can."
-Virgil
"All people smile in the same language."
-Anon
"Teaching kids to count is fine but, teaching them what counts is best."
-Rob Talber
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18."
-Albert Einstein
"The difference between a smart person and a wise person is that a smart
person knows what to say and a wise person knows whether or not to say it."
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
-Peter F. Drucker
"Through our willingness ot help others we can learn to be happy rather
than depressed."
-Gerald Jampolsky
"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself,
ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking
at you and act accordingly."
-Thomas Jefferson
"When you forgive, you in no way change the past--but
you sure do change the future."
-Bernard Meltzer
"A warm simle is the universal language of kindness."
-William Arthur Ward
"You have not lived a perfect day...unless you have done something for
someone who will never be able to repay you."
-Ruth Smeltzer
"Be the change you want to see in the world"
-Mohandas Gandhi
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannnot do everything,but still
I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
-Helen Keller
"The person who doesn't fit in with our notions of who is worthy of
our love - the bag lady at the corner, the strange old man who rides
through town on a three-wheel bike all strung up with flags-is just
the person who, by not fitting into our patterns, insists that we
expand not only our views but also our capacity to love. Today, see
if you can strech your heart and expand your love so that it touches
not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who
need it so much."
-Daphne Rose Kingma
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act
rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those
because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act but a habit."
-Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)
"We must put 'if only' in a bottle and throw it to sea in the hope that
someone else will pick it up. It is of no use to us."
-Rosanne Daryl Thomas
"Anyone can become angry. That's easy. But to be angry with the right
person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose,
and in the right way-that is not easy."
-Aristotle
"If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you
may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call
'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
-Mary Pickford
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
-Hermann Hesse
"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make
them come true."
-L.J. Cardinal Syenens
"Forget injuries, never forget kindness."
-Chinese Proverb
"Remember, when you point your finger accusingly at someone else,
you have three fingers pointing at yourself."
"If life gives you a lemon, just make it into lemonade."
"Do not let what you cannot do interfer with what you can."
-John Wooden
"BEWARE OF ASSUMPTIONS!
Whatever you 'assume' to be possible-or impossible-will have a tendency
to become real for you."
"We must use time creatively and forever realize that time is always hope
to do great things."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
-Robert F. Kennedy
"Great opportunities to help others seldom comes, but small ones surround
us everyday."
-Sally Koch
"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not."
-Dennis Waitley
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change."
-Charles Darwin
"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
-Mildred Barthel
"If you don't run your own life, someone else will."
-John Atkinson
"Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove
one word from your vocabulary; Impossible."
-Robert Schuller
"Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your
parents; but respect yourself most of all."
-Pythagoras
"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others."
-Sonya Friedman
"No one will ever breathe one breath for us. No one will ever think one
thought that is ours. No one will ever stand in our bodies, experience
what happens to us, feel our fears, dream our dreams,or cry our tears...
No one else can ever live a single moment of our lives for us. Then we
must do for ourselves."
-Shad Helmstetter
"The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all
they know and then stop."
-Mark Twain
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."- Robert Frost
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn
to see the other and honor him for what he is.
-- Hermann Hesse --
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
--John F. Kennedy
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
--Robert J. Oppenheimer
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
--Bertrand Russell
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
--John-Paul Sartre
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