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Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Carl Jung
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses. ~ Eric Berne
- selected by Kalki
- 2006
- All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. ~ Kate Sheppard (born 10 March 1847)
- selected by Kalki
- 2007
- I'm not aware of too many things.
I know what I know if you know what I mean.
~ Edie Brickell ~- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
- We are tired of having a "sphere" doled out to us, and of being told that anything outside that sphere is "unwomanly". We want to be natural just for a change … we must be ourselves at all risks. ~ Kate Sheppard
- proposed by Kalki
- 2009
- In men whom men condemn as ill
I find so much of goodness still,
In men whom men pronounce divine
I find so much of sin and blot,
I do not dare to draw a line
Between the two, where God has not.
~ Joaquin Miller ~- proposed by Zarbon
- 2010
- I don't believe in hatred anymore.
I hate to think of how it felt before
When anger overwhelms your very soul
It's hard to realize you'll ever know
Love like we do.
~ Edie Brickell ~- proposed by Kalki
- 2011
- Where storm-born shadows hide and hunt
I knew thee, in thy glorious youth,
And loved thy vast face, white as truth;
I stood where thunderbolts were wont
To smite thy Titan-fashioned front,
And heard dark mountains rock and roll;
I saw the lightning's gleaming rod
Reach forth and write on heaven's scroll
The awful autograph of God!
~ Joaquin Miller ~- proposed by Zarbon
- 2012
- Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. ~ Anonymous
- proposed by Zarbon
- 2013
| Let justice be done, though the world perish. |
| ~ Ferdinand I ~ |
- proposed by Zarbon
- 2014
| What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what? |
| ~ Edie Brickell ~ |
- proposed by Kalki
- 2015
| Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. |
| ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ |
- proposed by Kalki
- 2016
| I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all was down in de old cabin quarter, wid de ole folks, and my brudders and sisters. But to dis solemn resolution I came; I was free, and dey should be free also; I would make a home for dem in de North, and de Lord helping me, I would bring dem all dere. Oh, how I prayed den, lying all alone on de cold, damp ground; "Oh, dear Lord," I said, "I haint got no friend but you. Come to my help, Lord, for I'm in trouble!" |
| ~ Harriet Tubman ~ |
- proposed by Kalki
- 2017
| If there is an invisible church, then it is of the great paradox, which is inseparable from morality, and which must be distinguished from the merely philosophical. People who are so eccentric that they are completely serious in being and becoming virtuous understand one another in everything, find one another easily, and form a silent opposition against the prevailing immorality that pretends to be morality. A certain mysticism of expression, which joined with romantic fantasy and grammatical understanding, can be something charming and good, often serves as a symbol of their beautiful secrets. |
| ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~ |
- proposed by Kalki
- 2018
| People who are eccentric enough to be quite seriously virtuous understand each other everywhere, discover each other easily, and form a silent opposition to the ruling immorality that happens to pass for morality. |
| ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~ |
- proposed by Kalki
- 2019
| Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. |
| ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~ |
- proposed by Kalki
- 2020
| Search not to find how other men offend, But by that glass thy own offences mend; Still seek to learn, yet care not much from whom, (So it be learning) or from whence it come. Of thy own actions, others' judgments learn; Often by small, great matters we discern: Youth what man's age is like to be doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know. |
| ~ John Denham ~ |
- proposed by Zarbon
- 2021
| Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts. |
| ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ |
- proposed by Kalki
- 2022
| What happened just over a week ago was impossible to believe. Our country was peaceful; our cities, towns, and villages were full of life. On February 24th, we all woke up to the announcement of a Russian invasion. Tanks crossed the Ukrainian border, planes entered our airspace, missile launchers surrounded our cities. Despite assurances from Kremlin-backed propaganda outlets, who call this a "special operation" — it is, in fact, the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians. |
| ~ Olena Zelenska ~ |
- proposed by Kalki
- 2023
| The mind understands something only insofar as it absorbs it like a seed into itself, nurtures it, and lets it grow into blossom and fruit. Therefore scatter holy seeds into the soil of the spirit. |
| ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~ |
- proposed by Kalki
- 2024
| The artist should have as little desire to rule as to serve. He can only create, do nothing but create, and so help the state only by … exalting politicians and economists into artists. |
| ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~ |
- proposed by Kalki
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Sail through the sea of sad faces with love.
Love. Love for everyone.
Drift like a little boat on a wave.
~ Edie Brickell ~
- 3 Kalki 01:17, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:33, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 04:14, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep. ~ Edie Brickell
- 2 Zarbon 16:26, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 08:05, 7 March 2009 (UTC) interesting line, but in some ways not clearly indicative of the full point of the song.
- 2 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
That few but such as cannot write, translate.
~ John Denham (date of birth unknown/date of death)
- 3 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:02, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
* 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC) - 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
~ John Denham
- 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Search not to find what lies too deeply hid,
Nor to know things, whose knowledge is forbid.
~ John Denham
- 3 or in other words, don't mess with what you shouldn't. Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
But whither am I strayed? I need not raise
Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise;
Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built;
Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt
Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign,
Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.
~ John Denham
- 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
The very clouds have wept and died
And only God is in the sky. ~ Joaquin Miller
- 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.
Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh! ~ Harriet Tubman (date of birth unknown/date of death)
- 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education. ~ Friedrich Schlegel (born 1772 March 10)
In the same way as philosophy loses sight of its true object and appropriate matter, when either it passes into and merges in theology, or meddles with external politics, so also does it mar its proper form when it attempts to mimic the rigorous method of mathematics. ~ Friedrich Schlegel
Moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. ~ Friedrich Schlegel
True virtue is genius. ~ Friedrich Schlegel
| Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist. |
| ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~ |
| Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. |
| ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~ |
| Expect nothing more from philosophy than a voice, language and grammar of the instinct for Godliness that lies at its origin, and, essentially, is philosophy itself. |
| ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~ |
| Whatever can be done while poetry and philosophy are separated has been done and accomplished. So the time has come to unite the two. |
| ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~ |
| Do not waste your faith and love on the political world, but, in the divine world of science and art, offer up your inmost being in a fiery stream of eternal creation. |
| ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~ |
| Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. |
| ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~ |
| One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. |
| ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~ |
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