April 26
2004
- Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality. ~ Steve Allen
- selected by Kalki
2005
- If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein (born 26 April 1889)
- selected by Kalki
2006
- Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. ~ Marcus Aurelius (born 26 April 121)
- selected by Kalki
2007
- They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other. ~ Eugène Delacroix
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2008
- I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman... did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype. ~ Jessica Lynch (date of birth)
- proposed by Kalki
2009
- Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~- proposed by InvisibleSun
2010
Quotes by people born on this day, already used as QOTD:
- If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; if we begin with doubts, and are patient, we shall end in certainties. ~ Marcus Aurelius
- used 16 May 2004, selected by Kalki
- A man should be upright, not kept upright. ~ Marcus Aurelius
- used 7 August 2004, selected by Kalki
- The universe is flux, life is opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius
- used 16 May 2007, proposed by Aphaia
- Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. ~ Marcus Aurelius
- used 16 May 2008, proposed by Aphaia
Suggestions
When you are outraged by somebody's impudence, ask yourself at once, "Can the world exist without impudent people?" It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities. ~ Marcus Aurelius- 3 Kalki 00:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC) (date of birth)
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web. ~ Marcus Aurelius
- 3 Kalki 00:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC) (date of birth) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common. If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth. ~ Marcus Aurelius
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 17:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 1 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure. ~ Eugène Delacroix (born April 26, 1798)
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 17:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole. ~ Eugène Delacroix
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 17:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein (born April 26, 1889)
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 17:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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There are a few of us —madmen all! —who are in love with knowing, who would sell the last shirt from our backs for one small truth, one tiny star-fire to light up the murk and mystery of what we call our life… We may go blind before we see it, that's the haunting— ~ Morris West
- 2 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
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No man —prince, peasant, pope, —has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. ~ Morris West
- 3 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. ~ Morris West
- 3 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
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It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price…. One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover, and yet demand no easy return of love. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. ~ Morris West
- 3 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. ~ Morris West
- 3 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
- 4 Malakias 13:33, 07 July 2009 (UTC)
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The hardest freedom to maintain is the freedom of making mistakes. ~ Morris West
- 2 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
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My soul is full of whispered song,—
My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
Are full of life and light. ~ Alice Cary
- 3 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
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Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee,—
Take, I give it willingly;
For, invisible to thee,
Spirits twain have crossed with me. ~ Ludwig Uhland
- 2 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
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