Various Quotes
"Love is a dream that comes alive when we meet."
--Anonymous
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
--Aristotle
"No three words have greater power than 'I Love You'"
--unknown
"Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto."
--Lope De Vega
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
--William Shakespeare
"Where there is love there is life"
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear."
--John Lennon
"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey"
--Lord Byron, The Giaour,1813
"The four points of the compass are logic, knowledge, wisdom, and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable."
-- Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
"I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the starless night -- blown and flared by passion's storm -- and yet it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains."
-- Robert G. Ingersoll,"A Reply to the Rev. Henry M. Field, D.D."
"I tell you this; no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn"
-- Jim Morrison, "The Wasp"
"Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?"
-- Frances Wright, speech, Cincinnati, 1828
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
-- Bertrand Russell, "What I Believe"
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and---sans End!
And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,
Lift not thy hands to It for help---for It
Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.
-- Omar Khayyam, Stanzas 23 & 52 Rubaiyat
"Who then is free? The wise man, who is lord over himself, whom neither poverty, nor death, nor bonds affright, who bravely defies his passions, and scorns ambition, who in himself is a whole, smoothed and rounded, so that nothing can rest on the polished surface, and against whom Fortune in her onset is ever defeated."
-- Horace, Epistles, Book II
Religion is sometimes a source for happiness, and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the week, not for the strong ... The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask in the warm fire of faith, or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, Friday
Our age is retrospective. Why should we not also enjoy it's original relation to the universe? Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ... why should we grope among the bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines today also. There is more flax and wool in the fields. Let us demand our own works and law and worship.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"
"Intellectual freedom is essential to human society. Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorships."
-- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
"Be yourself, Be good to yourself, Be true to yourself, Love yourself, Take care of yourself, You don't need anyone else but yourself, cuz others will want you more if you show that you can fend for yourself."
--Tara Lynn
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