I am somewhat sad about Voltaire. He was such a good thinker, but often he had circumstantial antisemitic fibs. I really like the one you now carry around by Goethe.
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I am somewhat sad about Voltaire. He was such a good thinker, but often he had circumstantial antisemitic fibs. I really like the one you now carry around by Goethe.
People are bound to pardon a wild, profane, godless man, if saints have never flourished in their area. Hound of the Baskervilles
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you live in fear, this is not for you. But assuming you have no fear, has His Grace given you good morals? I am asking this because no fear with no morals is the most accurate definition of a criminal. ~ C A Cafolini
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Thoreau
"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach." Rimbaud
"There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze."
— Charles Baudelaire
"The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds
Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;
But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,
He cannot walk, his wings are in the way."
— Charles Baudelaire (Les Fleurs Du Mal)
"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about" O.Wilde
Our life is made by the death of others - Leonardo da Vinci
Does anyone know why Leonardo said that and what he meant by it?
Well, in a literal sense he was a scientist and, science often gives theories about how you cannot have life without death. That would be my literal guess.
"The darkest places in hell rest for those who maintain there neutrality in times of crisis" - Dante
I am not a believer in the hell and, heaven theories and Ideals but, I don't think you have to be to understand this quote.
So was that the reason behind Dante acting as "God" and cast certain historical characters to the hell fire in Inferno?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheLhix
It's a very good possibility whence you wrap you're mind around it.
Seems so, not scrutinisng though but just thinking.
Try to keep that person always happy whome you see everyday in the mirror :)
nd why why why :willy_nilly:
love self inspirations. thats why :)
“I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
On every tree there sits a bird
Singing a song of love
On every tree there sits a bird
And every one I ever heard
Could break my heart without a word
Singing a song of love
A song of love is a sad song
Hi-lili, hi-lili, hi-lo
A song of love is a song of woe
Don't ask me how I know
A song of love is a sad song
For you have loved and it's so
You sit at the window and watch the rain
Hi-lili, hi-lili, hi-lo
Tomorrow you'll probably love again
Hi-lili, hi-lili, hi-lo
Hi-lili, hi-lili, hi-lo
A song of love is a song of woe
A song of love is a sad song
For you have loved and it's so
You sit at the window and watch the rain
Hi-lili, hi-lili, hi-lo
Tomorrow you'll probably love again
Hi-lili, hi-lili, hi-lo
~ Helen Deutsch
When the seagulls follow the trawler it is because they think sardines will be thrown in to the sea.
Eric Cantona ( ex- France/ Manchester United player)
According to Cantona, even he did not know why he said that but it seems he was indirectly targeting the paparazzi.
Incredible is what's true. Credible is what's a lie. ~ C A Cafolini
The two biggest sellers in every bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet book tells you how not to eat any of it. Andy Rooney
If you wish to write fantasy, use it for the purpose of showing what's not there, so that what's there is what's left. Any other way of writing fantasy is the game of malice and doesn't count. One person telling the truth is worth billions playing the game of malice. Case closed. ~ C A Cafolini
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
--- Clive James
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Both Hemingway and Lorca admired bullfighters. Lorca wrote about the dancing art of the torero which did not spring from considerations about what the spectator thought. The dis-grace at the Spanish plaza was the unnecessary killing and ear slashing. ~ C A Cafolini
"I am the master of my fate, / I am the captain of my soul." William Ernest Henley (from his poem "Invictus")
"Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? / I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it." Walt Whitman (from his poem "Songs of Myself")
The second one is really to say that it is lucky to die because it shows that one has lived (hopefully a long, fruitful life).
"I am the master of my fate, / I am the captain of my soul." William Ernest Henley (from his poem "Invictus")
"Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? / I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it." Walt Whitman (from his poem "Songs of Myself")
The second one is really to say that it is lucky to die because it shows that one has lived (hopefully a long, fruitful life).
I love these because the first one comes from a poem that has been inspiring me since I read it as a senior in high school. I would recite it to myself before going into exams. Passing with flying colors, I realized that it gave me a certain strength and focus that I thought previously had been beyond me. The second one is just a beautiful observance, in my opinion. Walt Whitman was gifted in that he could see life for the gift that it was. Those of us lucky enough to live it, will be lucky enough to see death. Death, to Whitman, really is just an illusion because everything is a part of everything. Truly, he seems like the first American literary hippie to me. If there was one before him, do not hesitate to inform me.
Terrorism is a delinquency dressed up with political rags and sleazy newspapers. ~ C A Cafolini
The enemy has only images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives; destroy the image and you will break the enemy. Taoism
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home." -Glen Bateman from Stephen King's book "The Stand"
In war,' answered the weaver, 'the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, and another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.' -Oscar Wilde's "The Young King"
“I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.” - Jeffrey McDaniel
The only time machine is a clock. It moves forward. It measures time. The units of measurement are arbitrary. If we convene as to the units of measurement to be used, we can measure time together. ~ C A Cafolini
If as an atheist you are willing to do good, we might find a meeting place. ~ Pope Bergoglio, AKA Francis.
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Thinking that any thing is the word of God results in very funny reasoning. But what are we to think? We who live in the midst of the mystery of life have no other genuine alternative. The hope is that we will be blessed by His Grace. May we all be blessed by His Grace. In God we trust. ~ C A Cafolini
"The more difficult the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it." Moliere
It gives me hope and energy in facing difficulties.
Those who seek glory are playing God and they already lost that battle a long time ago.Quote:
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Henry V responds to Westmorland's wish for ten thousand more Englishmen, at the Battle of Agincourt.
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What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
It is not the want of will, its the strength that i want. If i could i would but as sure as i am alive, I cannot.
From Act 2 of The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack. Ah! that reminds me, you mentioned christenings I think, Dr. Chasuble? I suppose you know how to christen all right? [Dr. Chasuble looks astounded.] I mean, of course, you are continually christening, aren’t you?
Miss Prism. It is, I regret to say, one of the Rector’s most constant duties in this parish. I have often spoken to the poorer classes on the subject. But they don’t seem to know what thrift is.
And the dialogue directly following is pretty good as well. (It is Miss Prism's interjections that are wonderful to my mind.)
Chasuble. But is there any particular infant in whom you are interested, Mr. Worthing? Your brother was, I believe, unmarried, was he not?
Jack. Oh yes.
Miss Prism. [Bitterly.] People who live entirely for pleasure usually are.
One of my favorites that I can remember now is "timshel" (thou mayest) from East of Eden. My preferred translation of what God told Cain when he banished him to the Land of Nod, east of Eden because it lays the burden of overcoming evil and attaining salvation directly on Cain himself. Since we are all descendants of Cain, God is telling us that we may overcome and be saved by our own works. But I have wondered if I really understand it because this interpretation seems to be inconsistent with the message of Jesus which is that we are saved not by our works but by accepting Jesus as our savior. But, I do find some encouragement in my interpretation.
Here's another. This one is by Arthur Rimbaud from Morning in A Season In Hell.
"when shall we go beyond the mountains and the shores, to greet the birth of new toil, of new wisdom, the flight of tyrants, of demons, the end of superstition, to adore-the first to adore!-Christmas on the earth."
Another one by Rimbaud. From Farewell in A Season In Hell.
"Spiritual combat is as brutal as the battle of men: but the vision of justice is the pleasure of God alone."
Here's one by Charles Baudelaire from the prose poem Be Drunken.
"Be drunken, always. That is the point; nothing else matters. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weigh you down and crush you to the earth, be drunken continually. Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry or with virtue as you please. But be drunken"
Well she seemed all right by dawn's early light
Though she looked a little worried and weak
She tried to pretend he wasn't drinkin' again
But daddy left the proof on her cheek
And I was only eight years old that summer
And I always seemed to be in the way
So, I took myself down to the fair in town
On Independence Day
Well word gets around in a small, small town
They said he was a dangerous man
Mama was proud and she stood her ground
She knew she was on the losin' end
Some folks whispered some folks talked
But everybody looked the other way
When time ran out there was no one about
On Independence Day
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning
Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay, it's Independence Day
Well she lit up the sky that fourth of July
By the time that the firemen come
They just put out the flames and took down some names
And sent me to the county home
Now, I ain't sayin' it's right or it's wrong
But maybe it's the only way
Talk about your revolution
It's the Independence Day
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning
Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay, it's Independence Day
Roll the stone away, it's Independence Day
MARTINA MCBRIDE - INDEPENDENCE DAY LYRICS