Quotes of the day
from previous years:
- 2003
- It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. ~
Richard Ferris
- 2004
- He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. ~
Benjamin Franklin
- 2005
- I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy. ~
Stephen Jay Gould
(born 10 September 1941)
- 2006
- Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways. ~
Stephen Jay Gould
(born 10 September 1941)
- 2007
- The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream. ~
Cyril Connolly
(born 10 September 1903)
- Loosely sourced variant originally proposed by
Kalki
, correctly sourced version from a published edition of
The Unquiet Grave
(1944) proposed by
InvisibleSun
- 2008
- Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~
Cyril Connolly
- 2009
- It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher. ~
Charles Sanders Peirce
- 2010
- The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs. ~
Charles Sanders Peirce
- 2011
- The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea. ~
Charles Sanders Peirce
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
What I want in my
life
is to be
willing
to be dazzled ? to cast aside the weight of
facts
and maybe even to float a little above this difficult
world
.
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~
Mary Oliver
~
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- 2016
- 2017
You'd better
hope
and
pray
That you make it
safe
back to your own
world
You'd better hope and pray
That you'll
wake
one day in your own world
Because when you
sleep
at
night
They don't
hear
your cries in your own world
Only
time
will tell
If you can break the
spell
back in your own world.
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~
Siobhan Fahey
~
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- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
In a little over a week's time we will come together as a
nation
, as a
Commonwealth
and indeed a global
community
, to lay
my beloved mother
to rest. In our
sorrow
, let us
remember
and draw
strength
from the light of her
example
. On behalf of all my
family
, I can only offer the most sincere and heartfelt
thanks
for your condolences and support. They
mean
more to me than I can ever possibly express.
And to my darling
mama
, as you begin your last great journey to join
my dear late papa
, I want simply to say this: thank you. Thank you for your
love
and
devotion
to our family and to the family of nations you have served so diligently all these years. May "flights of
angels
sing thee to thy rest."
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~
Charles III
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- proposed by
Kalki
; in regard of his ascension to the throne, and his mother's recent death.
- 2023
- 2024
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Evolutionists make no claim for perpetual truth, though creationists often do (and then attack us for a style of argument that they themselves favor). In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ~
Stephen Jay Gould
(date of birth)
- 3
Kalki
16:34, 30 August 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 3
InvisibleSun
02:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1
Zarbon
22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied. ~
Stephen Jay Gould
(born 10 September 1941)
- 3
Kalki
16:34, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
- 3
InvisibleSun
02:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- 2
Zarbon
22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
We inhabit a complex world. Some boundaries are sharp and permit clean and definite distinctions. But nature also includes continua that cannot be neatly parceled into two piles of unambiguous yeses and noes. Biologists have rejected, as fatally flawed in principle, all attempts by anti-abortionists to define an unambiguous 'beginning of life,' because we know so well that the sequence from ovulation or spermatogenesis to birth is an unbreakable continuum?and surely no one will define masturbation as murder. ~
Stephen Jay Gould
(born 10 September 1941)
- 3
Kalki
16:34, 30 August 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 2
InvisibleSun
02:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 because I'm not too fond of seeing a quote dealing with masturbation as QOTD. But the message is rather understandable.
Zarbon
22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
We fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them. ~
Cyril Connolly
(born September 10, 1903)
- 3
InvisibleSun
02:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- 2
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Kalki
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22:47, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
3
Kalki
16:54, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
but still with a lean toward 3 ? there just are many more on the page that I prefer more.
- 3 because this is very true. And as Yoda of Star Wars described it so well, fear leads to the
dark side
, something I find exquisitely full of moral worth.
Zarbon
22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
'Dry again?' said the Crab to the Rock-Pool. 'So would you be,' replied the Rock-Pool, 'if you had to satisfy, twice a day, the insatiable sea.' ~
Cyril Connolly
- 3
InvisibleSun
02:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- 2
Kalki
16:54, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- 1
Zarbon
22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds settle there, and soon birds have made a nest and are feeding their young among the blossoming water plants. Then the river rises and the earth is washed away. The birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; ? such is our personality. ~
Cyril Connolly
- 4
InvisibleSun
02:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- 3
Kalki
16:54, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- 1
Zarbon
22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential. ~
Cyril Connolly
(born 10 September 1903)
- 3
Kalki
12:14, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
- 3
InvisibleSun
00:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1
Zarbon
22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. ~
Cyril Connolly
(born 10 September 1903)
- 3
Kalki
12:14, 10 September 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 3
InvisibleSun
00:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1
Zarbon
22:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to. ~
Carl Van Doren
- 2
Zarbon
19:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- 3
InvisibleSun
23:21, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
- 3
Kalki
23:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants. ~
Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac
- 2
Zarbon
19:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2
InvisibleSun
23:21, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
- 1
Kalki
23:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
It is only the dead who do not return. ~
Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac
- 2
Zarbon
19:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2
InvisibleSun
23:21, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
- 1
Kalki
23:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together. ~
Siobhan Fahey
- 2
Zarbon
19:15, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2
InvisibleSun
23:21, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2
Kalki
23:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
If this world is wearing thin
And you're thinking of escape
I'll go anywhere with you
Just wrap me up in chains
But if you try to go alone
Don't think I'll understand
(Stay) Stay with me
~
Siobhan Fahey
~
- 3
Kalki
23:11, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
Happiness is … the grace of being permitted to unfold … all the spiritual powers planted within us. ~
Franz Werfel
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. ~
Mary Oliver
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed. ~
Mary Oliver
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. ~
Mary Oliver
My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird ? equal seekers of sweetness ~
Mary Oliver
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. ~
Mary Oliver
Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. ~
Mary Oliver
Light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it’s done right, is a kind of holiness. ~
Mary Oliver
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~
Mary Oliver
Our idea of anything is our idea of its sensible effects; and if we fancy that we have any other we deceive ourselves, and mistake a mere sensation accompanying the thought for a part of the thought itself. It is absurd to say that thought has any meaning unrelated to its only function. ~
Charles Sanders Peirce
Every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
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~
Mary Oliver
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To
live
in this
world
you must be able to do three things: to
love
what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
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~
Mary Oliver
~
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- 3
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Kalki
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00:14, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
People often ask, "What is the single most
important
environmental/population
problem
facing the
world
today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!"
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~
Jared Diamond
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