A few select quotations
(this is my favorite page on this site)
The problem with institutionalizing God's church through religions is that each religion tries to limit that which is limitless. God created differences because there are different ways to serve
God, and different lessons we all need to learn. Religions are man's attempt to understand and worship God, but in doing so they limit God, who is limitless.
-Sandra Rogers, author
.... Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-John Greenleaf Whittier
At eighty, I think what I shall regret are the things I always wanted to do and
never did; the experiences I denied myself because I was too concerned about
others' opinions, or too anxious for their approval; but I think I would regret
most a life wasted living as someone who was not me...
-somebody by the name of Tatrat
Happiness comes in flavors.
-Sign on the wall at an ice cream shoppe
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's
been swimming naked.
-Warren Buffett
May there be champagne for your real friends and real
pain for your sham friends.
-Anon.
Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon
glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are
bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is
heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanesence,
and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.
-Kakuzo Okakura in "The Book of Tea"
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability
of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
-H.P. Lovecraft
Those whose peculiar form of ignorance is certainty are always brought
low by the vast ocean of evidence of which they are unaware. This might
be amusing were it not for the multitudes who have died throughout
history as sacrifices to this common academic arrogance.
-Jack Betterly, teacher in Troy, NY
I worship truth and that is why it has to
occasionally be sacrificed on the altar of
self-promotion.
-Geoffrey Feldman
Outside the baseball box scores and the stock market
tables, there is no such thing as 'objective
journalism'. The very phrase in itself is a pompous
contradiction in terms.
-Hunter S. Thompson
I'm not afraid of death, just afraid I haven't
lived.
-Anon.
My motto is: They can't break you if you don't have
a spine.
-Wally from 'Dilbert'
Lucinda's mother knew that she had produced a proud,
square peg, in the full knowledge that from coast to
coast, there were nothing but round holes.
-the narrator in the film "Oscar and Lucinda"
You never know a man until you've eaten a whole sack
of salt together.
-Russian proverb
I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship
at my bones.
-Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the
measles of mankind.
-Einstein
Custom is the chief cause hindering us from grasping
many clear truths. Just as certain actions though
harmful will become easy to the man accustomed to them,
and for this reason he comes to believe that they are
useful; similarly when one has become accustomed to
believe false statements from childhood, the habit so
formed will cause him to deny the truth, even as some
men have become so used to eating poison that it has
become to them a food.
-Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
(And along the same lines...)
There are four chief
obstacles in grasping truth... namely, submission to
faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom,
popular prejudice, and concealment of our own ignorance
accompanied by an ostentatious display of our
knowledge.
-Roger Bacon
The misfortune that has overtaken the spiritual
outlook of man is that as his universe expanded his
conception of the deity did not expand with it.
-F. Wood Jones
Whether it's through the Internet, a record, or a conversation,
the real deal is to try to be as coherent as we can and make
sense out of what's going on around us.
-John Trudell (American Indian activist)
Sex education causes teen pregnancy like history class causes war.
-Anon.
Collegiate learning has almost become Marxian in that there's
a kind of alienation involved, because there's so much pressure
to get the degree and get it fast, and little emphasis left on
the joy of learning.
-Me
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