Try explaining the quote that the person above u has quoted...and write a quote for others to explain...
lemme start..
"Forget the brother, and resume the man."
-Alexander Pope
Any explanations to this one??
Try explaining the quote that the person above u has quoted...and write a quote for others to explain...
lemme start..
"Forget the brother, and resume the man."
-Alexander Pope
Any explanations to this one??
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And Thou shalt not, writ over the door:
So I turned to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore. - "The Garden of Love", William Blake.
Alexander Pope was a humanist & here he is just defying the truth that Blood is thicker than water. We have to learn to look upon the world in universal oneness - universal fraternity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau began his book 'The Social Contact' with the immortal line - " MAN IS BORN FREE BUT ALAS EVERYWHERE HE IS IN CHAINS ! "
How relevant is this today ?
God is supreme absolute truth
We are born free, but we are restricted so much that in actuality, we are being controlled by the government.
"You can't runaway from yourself."
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Too easy: wherever you go, there you are.Originally Posted by yellowfeverlime
Which reminds me of a buzz quote from a few years ago. Does anyone really know what this means? --
"There is no there there."
Getrude Stein's "There is no there there". When Stein returned to California on her lecture tour to the United States in the 1930s, she wanted to visit her childhood home in Oakland, CA. She records that she could not find the house. Hence, "there is no there there." –Sonja Streuber
"When I go forward you go backward and somewhere we will meet"
I should have known. Miss Stein did more to butcher the American language than any three other writers.
Is that actually a quote??...i'd too wud like to know what that means
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And Thou shalt not, writ over the door:
So I turned to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore. - "The Garden of Love", William Blake.
"When I go forward you go backward and somewhere we will meet"
Think in the sense of a circle. If I go foward, you go backward we'll meet eventually. We may be moving apart now, but we will meet again somewhere.
Meg
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"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."
Henry David Thoreau
Historically...those who told the truth about a particular regime have been exiled, jailed, or killed by those in power whose fury has been aroused. To be sure, the obvious explanation is that they were dangerous to their respective establishments, and that killing them seemed the best way to protect the status quo.
"If everything from the furthest planet to the smallest atom of our brain acts according to Newton's law of motion, then what becomes of free will? Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
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"All are lunatics, but he who can analyse his delusions is called a philosopher."
What Stoppard refers to is not just Newton's law of motion, but the concept that reality functions like a machine -- an idea Newton borrowed from Cartesian philosophy. In this super-deterministic paradigm human free will cannot exist since every decision and action is part of a chain of cause and effect.
"To be truthful means using the customary metaphors -- in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to a fixed convention." -- Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche known for his works and researches on truth, while trying to explain what truth is...goes on to say that, truth is what society defines a particular belief to be...it isn't something that already exists...it might even be sourced on something absolutely baseless and merely "believed" to be true b'coz it has been the way through generations for centuries...
Truth merely exists b'coz society demands its existence(okay...im confusing myself now!)...and respects anyone who follows and believes those 'truths'...which have been followed through ages...Nietzsche also refers to a man's "illusion of possessing a 'truth'..."
this is the best i cud manage...anyone willing to add please do so...
Next Quote:"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." --Jane Austen
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And Thou shalt not, writ over the door:
So I turned to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore. - "The Garden of Love", William Blake.
HA HA All that what Jane Austen says above was relevant in her times. Now its different. Engagements are en-guage-ments & matrimony is a-matter-of-money & alimony on divorce means all-your-money. This is an age of materialism. Womens' cares are never over today.
Next Quote: Mans work is done by set of sun
Womans chores are never done !!!
Anyone refuting me ?
lol...i juz love that!...@geetanjali...& im in complete agreement!...quote passed on...if anyone wishes to comment@`Engagements are en-guage-ments & matrimony is a-matter-of-money & alimony on divorce means all-your-money
Quote: Mans work is done by set of sun
Womans chores are never done !!!
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And Thou shalt not, writ over the door:
So I turned to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore. - "The Garden of Love", William Blake.
A woman's cares are over when she traps a man into marriage? I just love Jane Austen.
Very similar to what an old Florida cracker once told me:
"Women! First, they want the matrimony. Then they up and leave and want the alimony. In the end they get all the mony."
Yes, women 'trap' men but when/if they realise that the catch is not good enough, they release them into the wild again.
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