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Quotation of the Week

Labels: Celebration, Christmas, December, Holiday Greetings, Holidays, quotations

# posted by j @ 17:10 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«Denken ist schwer, darum urteilen die meisten.»
~Carl Gustav Jung

Labels: Jung, Life, Prejudice, quotations

# posted by j @ 18:32 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«Truth exists; only lies are invented.»
~Georges Braque

Labels: Atheism, Georges Braque, Life, quotations, Religion, Truth

# posted by j @ 17:10 et / |

Quotation of the Week

Labels: Bukowsky, Idiocy, Intelligence, Life, quotations, Reason

# posted by j @ 17:55 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.»
(I will either find a way or make one.)
~Hannibal

Labels: Attitude, Hannibal, Latin, Life, Purpose, quotations

# posted by j @ 01:25 et / |

Quotation of the Week

Labels: Life, Literature, Oscar Wilde, quotations

# posted by j @ 15:35 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.» ~Edmund Burke

Labels: Help, Life, Mistakes, quotations

# posted by j @ 14:16 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«We do not see what we love, but we love in the hope of confirming the illusion that we are indeed seeing anthing at all.»
~Paul de Man

Labels: Love, quotations

# posted by j @ 17:21 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.»
~Arthur C Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

Labels: Human Achievement, quotations, Science

# posted by j @ 10:46 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice.
Then he made school boards.»
~Mark Twain

Labels: Education, quotations, Religion

# posted by j @ 17:53 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.»
~Abraham Lincoln

Labels: quotations

# posted by j @ 13:04 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.»
~Christopher Morley

Labels: quotations

# posted by j @ 12:47 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour!»
~Taken from: Measure for Measure

Labels: quotations

# posted by j @ 20:27 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«To understand nothing takes time.»
~Zen saying

Labels: quotations, Zen

# posted by j @ 01:09 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«You can't have everything. Where would you put it?»
~Steven Wright

Labels: Desire, Life, quotations

# posted by j @ 00:54 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.»
~Eric Hoffer

Labels: Manners, quotations

# posted by j @ 08:57 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?»
~Epicurus

Labels: Atheism, Philosophy, quotations, Religion

# posted by j @ 19:14 et / |

Quotation of the Week

«Be great in act, as you have been in thought.»
~Jean Richter (and attrib. to the man known as "Shakespeare")

Labels: quotations

# posted by j @ 01:21 et / |

Quotation of the Week

Labels: quotations

# posted by j @ 17:23 et / |

Quotation of the Summer

«Though we travel the world to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.»
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Labels: quotations

# posted by j @ 19:29 et / |