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[JuntaJoe]

This new feature thread is all about quotes and sayings that are profound.

It's really important to give credit where it is due by by naming the author where possible. If you don't have the author's name then make an exhaustive search engine effort.

You can add your own quotes, but don't toss up cutesy slop.

Skip the Whoa! Cool! commentary and trying to question the sayings. Offer up a new submission instead.

[JuntaJoe]

When tearing down a Baltimore church for reconstruction, this was found behind some plaster and dated 1692 by an anonymous author. It was rescued and promptly sent into a church archive. In the heydays of the 60's, a guy named Max Ehrman, or something like that, found a written copy and proceeded to pass it around. He's still erroneously given author credit to this very day. But the wisdom is far older than America. Funny thing is that it remains timeless and is not affected by the onrush of modern technology or popular philosopy. Enjoy.


Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.


Well, I know I don't live up to all of the ideals there.

But I have my whole life to get there.

[JuntaJoe]

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

-Andre Gide

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You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice.

-Japanese Proverb

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Wisdom begins in wonder.

-Socrates

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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

-Buddha

[JuntaJoe]

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

-Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP Keynote Address

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Omnium Consensu Capax Emperiti Nisi Imperasset

Latin for Everyone thought himself capable of exercising authority, until he tried it.

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Life's is like a knife fight in a dirt floor bar.

If you go down then you had best get back up.

-Jim Bowie

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Of course I don't look busy........I did it right the first time.

-Unknown

[JuntaJoe]

I have a couple I've made myself. Here's one:


There is no such thing as normalcy;
Only the appearance of normalcy.
When we let the shadows of the mind out into the light, we lose a portion of that appeared normalcy.
We all have shadows, but where we keep them determines our appeared level of normalcy.

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A fact is anything you can convince someone else to believe.

-Unknown

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SEX

The price is exorbitant.
The pleasure is transitory.
The position is ludicrous.

-Lord Chesterfield

[JuntaJoe]

"Lest your thirty-year olds be recipients of this pity, mustn't you take every kind of precaution when they turn to arguments?"

"Quite so," he said.

"Isn't it one great precaution not to let them taste arguments while they are young? I suppose you aren't unaware that when lads get their first taste of them, they misuse them as though it were play, always using them to contradict; and imitating those men by whom they are refuted, they themselves refute others, like puppies enjoying pulling and tearing with argument at those who happen to be near."

"They certainly have," he said, "a preternatural tendency in that direction."

"Then when they themselves refute many men and are refuted by many, they fall quickly into a profound disbelief of what they formerly believed. And as a result of this, you see, they themselves and the whole activity of philosophy become the objects of slander among the rest of men."

"Very true," he said.

"An older man, however," I said, "wouldn't be willing to participate in such madness. He will imitate the man who's willing to discuss and consider the truth rather than the one who plays and contradicts for the sake of the game. And he himself will be more sensible and will make the practice of discussion more honorable instead of more dishonorable."

"That's right," he said.




Dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon: Plato, Republic, 539a-d

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A regret is a regret while undone.

-KhabaLox

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Going to hell in a bucket, babe.
Least I'm enjoying the ride.

The Greatful Dead.


Every silver lining's got a touch of grey.

The Greatful Dead.

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Love is a kind of warfare.

- Ovid

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Loss is nothing but change, and change is Nature's delight.

- Marcus Aurelius

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Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of a person.

- Stevie Wonder

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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

- Henry David Thoreau