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Quotes

   Posted by: Rasputin   in Uncategorized

You may have noticed the the quotes in the top right of the page. They refresh with each page. Here is the database of quote it draws from. More of course may be added at anytime.He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. - Marcus Aurelius (121-180) 

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Francis Bacon

(1561-1626) Anyone who debates by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence–he is just using his memory. - Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common - John Locke (1632-1704)

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect - Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong - Voltaire (1694-1778)

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.” - John Maynard Keynes

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. - Milton Friedman,
Member of the Hoover Institution at Stanford 

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it. But that it is too low — and we reach it. - Michelangelo

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid - Jane Austen

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular - Aristotle

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players - Shakespeare

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important - C.S. Lewis

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives - Buddha

The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same - Manmohan Singh

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity,
independence, magnanimity, and trust - Henry David Thoreau

The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas - Linus Pauling

Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things - Ambrose Bierce

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water,
and altered the color of my mind - Emily Bronte

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious-that is, that we are all trying to decipher life’s big mysteries, and we’re each following our own paths of
enlightenment - Dan Brown

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. - Albert Camus

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true - Charles Dickens

Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and
driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality
of its presence - Fyodor Dostoyevski

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it - Alexandre Dumas

It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight
hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work - William Faulkner

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you - F. Scott
Fitzgerald

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and
interesting - Aldous Huxley

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality - Milan Kundera

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. - George Orwell

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded - Leo Tolstoy

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge
sundae - Kurt Vonnegut

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. - W.H. Auden

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians - Henrik Ibsen

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less - Arthur Miller

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in the truth - Sophocles

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.  - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta