January 10
2005
- The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- selected by Kalki
2006
- Know that however ugly the parts appear
the whole remains beautiful...
... the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty
of the universe. Love that, not man
Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions,
or drown in despair when his days darken.
~ Robinson Jeffers (born 10 January 1887)- proposed by Kalki
2007
- Science and mathematics
Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it,
They never touch it: consider what an explosion
Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world
If any mind for a moment touch truth.
~ Robinson Jeffers ~- proposed by Kalki
2008
- I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine. ~ Robinson Jeffers
- proposed by Kalki
2009
- Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. ~ John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
- proposed by Zarbon
2010
Suggestions
"You are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side," said the dewdrop to the lake. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds.- Posted on 7 January 2006, at the January 10th QotD page, by IP 67.37.190.144
- 2 Kalki 23:47, 9 January 2006 (UTC) (no clear correlation to the date)
- 1 Zarbon 18:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.. ~ Robinson Jeffers (date of birth)
- 3 Kalki 21:24, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:18, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Zarbon 18:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Look west at the hill of water: it is half the planet:
this dome, this half-globe, this bulging
Eyeball of water, arched over to Asia,
Australia and white Antartica: those are the eyelids that never close;
this is the staring unsleeping
Eye of the earth; and what it watches is not our wars.
~ Robinson Jeffers (born January 10, 1887)
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:18, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:24, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 18:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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The gang serves lies, the passionate
Man plays his part; the cold passion for truth
Hunts in no pack.
~ Robinson Jeffers
- 3 Kalki 21:24, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 18:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:19, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
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All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. ~ John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
- 4 Zarbon 06:01, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 14:55, 6 January 2009 (UTC) though I eventually will probably rank this a 3 or even a 4, despite some casual use of absolute words: I can't agree that "bad men" are ever truly "great men" though it is obvious that by great he means "powerful." I would actually prefer to trim this one to the most famous portion of it.
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:19, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
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It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education. ~ Fukuzawa Yukichi
- 3 Zarbon 06:01, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 14:55, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:19, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
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