Quote of the day/December 2003

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December 2003

• "I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

• "They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity." ~ David Sedaris

• "The time is always right to do what is right" ~ Martin Luther King

• "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven." ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ)

• "We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it." ~ Thomas Jefferson

• "That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess." ~ Henry David Thoreau

• "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." ~ Bertrand Russell

• "Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

• "Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps." ~ Emo Phillips

• "If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they spoil the lives of better and simpler people." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

• "What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

• "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." ~ George Carlin

• "I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education." ~ Mark Twain

• "For myself, I am an optimist— it does not seem to be much use being anything else." ~ Winston Churchill

November 2003

• "Security is mostly a superstition... Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." ~ Helen Keller

• "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You', that would suffice." ~ Meister Eckhart

• "A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave." ~ Mohandas Gandhi

• "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

• "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows." ~ Frank Herbert in Dune

• "The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." ~ George Eliot

• "The Enlightened take things Lightly." ~ Principia Discordia

• "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." ~ Anaïs Nin

• "God is an Iron" ~ Spider Robinson

October 2003

• "I really believe that if there's any kind of God, he wouldn't be in any one of us— not you, not me, but just this space in between. If there's some magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone else, sharing something." ~ Before Sunrise (motion picture)

• "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

• "Sex is only dirty if it's done right." ~ Woody Allen

• "The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication." ~ Terry Pratchett

• "We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion." ~ Stephanie Zacharek

• "One of the basic tenets of Zen Buddhism is that there is no way to characterize what Zen is. No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over..." ~ Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

• "That man is an Euclidian point: position without substance." ~ Ernest Rutherford

• "We shall not cease from exploration
  And the end of all our exploring
  Will be to arrive where we started
  And know the place for the first time."
  ~ The Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot ~

Other Quote of the Day archives

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