Category: quote

  • named fear

    Named must your fear be before banish it you can.

    – Yoda

  • No man is an island

    Encrusted island

    All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.

    As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness.

    No man is an island, entire of itself…any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

    – John Donne (1572-1631)
    Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII

  • only the heart can see rightly


    It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential
    is invisible to the eye.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

  • forceps of our minds

    Water Under Water – The Thrill

    “The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”

    – H. G. Wells

  • importance

    “No human thing is of serious importance.”

    – Plato

  • do what we must

    “We do what we must, and call it by the best names.”

    – Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • the individual stands at a crossroad

    … the individual today stands at a crossroad, faced with the choice of whether to pursue the new technology and the endless multiplication of material goods, or to seek out a way that will lead to spiritual responsibility …

    – Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986

  • sleep with dogs

    “Those who sleep with dogs must rise with fleas”

    I thought this was a Bjelke-Petersen-ism from the 1970s however I found it in a book of Scottish sayings.

  • Facts vs Opinions

    “Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.”

    – Charles McCabe

  • immature

    “You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”

    – Dave Barry