March 24
2004
- It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ~ Thomas Paine
- selected by Kalki
2005
- Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it. ~ Wilhelm Reich (born 24 March 1897)
- selected by Kalki
2006
- With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on. ~ William Morris (born 24 March 1834)
- selected by Kalki
2007
- What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference. ~ Walter Hilton (died March 24, 1396; date of birth unknown)
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2008
- I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. ~ William Morris
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2009
- Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily... ~ Wilhelm Reich
- proposed by Kalki
2010
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Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
- Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan. ~ Wilhelm Reich
- used 3 November 2007, proposed by Kalki
Suggestions
I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy. ~ Walter Hilton- 3 InvisibleSun 10:11, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 18:32, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Zarbon 04:29, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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There are many who are hypocrites although they think they are not, and there are many who are afraid of being hypocrites although they certainly are not. Which is the one and which is the other God knows, and none but He. ~ Walter Hilton
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:11, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 18:32, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 04:29, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved. ~ Walter Hilton
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:11, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 18:32, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 04:29, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing,
I cannot ease the burden of your fears,
Or make quick-coming death a little thing,
Or bring again the pleasure of past years,
Nor for my words shall ye forget your tears,
Or hope again for aught that I can say,
The idle singer of an empty day.
~ William Morris (born March 24, 1934)
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:11, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 18:32, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 04:29, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ~ Wilhelm Reich
- 3 Kalki 18:32, 23 March 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:34, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 04:29, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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Love is enough: though the World be a-waning
And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining,
Though the sky be too dark for dim eyes to discover
The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder,
Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder,
And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over,
Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter;
The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter
These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.
~ William Morris ~
- 3 Kalki 23:18, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
* 4 Kalki 19:09, 23 March 2008 (UTC)but still with a very strong lean toward a 4. - 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 04:29, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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“Give,” said the little stream,
“Give, oh give, give, oh give,”
As it hurried down the hill.
“I am small, I know, but wherever I go
The fields grow greener still.”
~ Fanny Crosby
- 3 Zarbon 03:12, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 00:01, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
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Almighty Freedom! give my venturous song
The force, the charm that to thy voice belong;
Tis thine to shape my course, to light my way,
To nerve my country with the patriot lay,
To teach all men where all their interest lies,
How rulers may be just and nations wise:
Strong in thy strength I bend no suppliant knee,
Invoke no miracle, no Muse but thee.
~ Joel Barlow
- 3 Zarbon 03:12, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 00:01, 23 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
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He open'd calm the universal cause,
To give each realm its limit and its laws,
Bid the last breath of tired contention cease,
And bind all regions in the leagues of peace;
Till one confederate, condependent sway
Spread with the sun and bound the walks of day,
One centred system, one all-ruling soul
Live thro the parts and regulate the whole.
~ Joel Barlow
- 3 Zarbon 03:12, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 00:01, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
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If "freedom" means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social existence, then there is no greater fear than that of the establishment of general freedom. Without a thoroughgoing solution of this problem there never will be a peace lasting longer than one or two generations. To solve this problem on a social scale, it will take more thinking, more honesty and decency, more conscientiousness, more economic, social and educational changes in social mass living than all the efforts made in previous and future wars and post-war reconstruction programs taken together. ~ Wilhelm Reich
- 3 Kalki 00:01, 23 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 1 Zarbon 03:31, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
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