Post by khyron1144 on Jan 17, 2005 18:12:45 GMT -5
I've been wading thorugh some of my favorite books for quotes recently due to a contest to see who can come up with something witty or insightful to put on a t-shirt. Here's some of the best from my 3.5 page submission:
Whether we listen with aloof amusement to the dreamlike mumbo jumbo of some red-eyed witch doctor of the Congo, or read with cultivated rapture thin translations from the sonnets of the mystic Lao-tse; now and again crack the hard nutshell of an argument of Aquinas, or catch suddenly the shining meaning of a bizarre Eskimo fairy tale: it will be always the one shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find, together with a challengingly persistent suggestion of more remaining to be experienced than will ever be known or told.
-Joseph Campbell
This time, like all times, is a very god one, if we but know what to do with it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paradise is where I am.
-Voltaire
The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain’t so.
-Mark Twain
Everyone is ignorant, only in different subjects.
-Will Rogers
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
-Mignon McLaughlin
The world is our school for spiritual discovery.
-Paul Brunton
Fortune favors the audacious.
-Erasmus
A man with outward courage dares to die.
A man with inward courage dares to live.
-Lao-tzu
We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.
-Georges Danton
Fear always springs from ignorance.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
-Thomas Aquinas
Whatever you do or dream you can do- begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
-Johann Goethe
The idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
-Elbert Hubbard
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said, has its origin in the Spirit.
-Thomas Aquinas
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
-Lao-tzu
You must be the change you wish to see in the world
-Mahatma Gandhi
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
-Buddha
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
-Abraham Lincoln
A crank is a man with a new idea – until it catches on.
-Mark Twain
Higher good is like water:
The good in water benefits all,
And does so without contention.
It rests where people dislike to be,
So it is close to the Way.
-Lao-tzu, in the Tao Te Ching as presented in the Essential Tao translated by Thomas Cleary
There’s no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
-William Blake
Those who are humorless should not be taken seriously. They take themselves so seriously, they eave no room for others to do likewise.
-Anton Szandor LaVey
Only a fool mistakes laughter for humor and fashion for style.
-Anton Szandor LaVey
To study a text, we should take into account the circumstances, the situation, the time, the society, and the community where a book was originally written or a teaching taught.
-His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama
Whether we listen with aloof amusement to the dreamlike mumbo jumbo of some red-eyed witch doctor of the Congo, or read with cultivated rapture thin translations from the sonnets of the mystic Lao-tse; now and again crack the hard nutshell of an argument of Aquinas, or catch suddenly the shining meaning of a bizarre Eskimo fairy tale: it will be always the one shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find, together with a challengingly persistent suggestion of more remaining to be experienced than will ever be known or told.
-Joseph Campbell
This time, like all times, is a very god one, if we but know what to do with it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paradise is where I am.
-Voltaire
The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain’t so.
-Mark Twain
Everyone is ignorant, only in different subjects.
-Will Rogers
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
-Mignon McLaughlin
The world is our school for spiritual discovery.
-Paul Brunton
Fortune favors the audacious.
-Erasmus
A man with outward courage dares to die.
A man with inward courage dares to live.
-Lao-tzu
We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.
-Georges Danton
Fear always springs from ignorance.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
-Thomas Aquinas
Whatever you do or dream you can do- begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
-Johann Goethe
The idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
-Elbert Hubbard
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said, has its origin in the Spirit.
-Thomas Aquinas
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
-Lao-tzu
You must be the change you wish to see in the world
-Mahatma Gandhi
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
-Buddha
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
-Abraham Lincoln
A crank is a man with a new idea – until it catches on.
-Mark Twain
Higher good is like water:
The good in water benefits all,
And does so without contention.
It rests where people dislike to be,
So it is close to the Way.
-Lao-tzu, in the Tao Te Ching as presented in the Essential Tao translated by Thomas Cleary
There’s no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
-William Blake
Those who are humorless should not be taken seriously. They take themselves so seriously, they eave no room for others to do likewise.
-Anton Szandor LaVey
Only a fool mistakes laughter for humor and fashion for style.
-Anton Szandor LaVey
To study a text, we should take into account the circumstances, the situation, the time, the society, and the community where a book was originally written or a teaching taught.
-His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama