July 25
2003
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ~ Albert Einstein
- selected by Nanobug
2004
- If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. ~ William Blake
- selected by Kalki
2005
- In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (died 25 July 1834)- proposed by MosheZadka
2006
- There seem to be magic days once in a while, with some rare quality of light that hold a body spellbound... Then comes the hard part: how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, air and space... ~ Maxfield Parrish (born 25 July 1870)
- proposed by Kalki
2007
- To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. ~ Eric Hoffer (born 25 July 1902)
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- Though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. ~ Eric Hoffer
- proposed by Kalki
2009
- Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good. ~ Eric Hoffer
- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
In a big picture you can see what o'clock it is afternoon or morning if it's hot or cold winter or summer & what kind of people are there & what they are doing and why they are doing it. The sentiments run beyond words. If a man makes a hot day he makes it like a hot day he once saw or is seeing if a sweet face a face he once saw or which he imagines from old memories or parts of memories & his knowledge and he combines never creates but at the very first combination no man & less of all himself could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him just then & refer each one to its right place. ~ Thomas Eakins (born July 25, 1844)- 3 InvisibleSun 09:09, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Coyote 20:32, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 06:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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I have but little patience with the false modesty which is the greatest enemy to all figure painting. I see no impropriety in looking at the most beautiful of Nature's works, the naked figure. ~ Thomas Eakins
- 3 InvisibleSun 09:09, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Aphaia 09:13, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Coyote 20:32, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 06:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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If by politeness then is meant goodness, it is appreciated by me as I trust it always has been, but if it is to mean the string of ceremonies generally used for concealing ill nature, and which have been found necessary to the existence of every society whose members are wanting in self respect and morality, I detest it more than ever. ~ Thomas Eakins
- 3 InvisibleSun 09:09, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Aphaia 09:13, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Coyote 20:32, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 06:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. ~ Eric Hoffer
- 4 Zarbon 06:21, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 23:29, 30 June 2009 (UTC) I might possibly rank this slightly higher if expanded for context.
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There are some things that you know to be true, and others that you know to be false; yet, despite this extensive knowledge that you have, there remain many things whose truth or falsity is not known to you. We say that you are uncertain about them. You are uncertain, to varying degrees, about everything in the future; much of the past is hidden from you; and there is a lot of the present about which you do not have full information. Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it. ~ Dennis Lindley (born 25 July 1923)
- 3 Kalki 23:29, 30 June 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4
- 2 Zarbon 18:24, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
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Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty. ~ Dennis Lindley
- 3 Kalki 23:29, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 18:24, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
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Genius does not operate according to rules. ~ Dennis Lindley
- 3 Kalki 23:29, 30 June 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4
- 2 Zarbon 18:24, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
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