Notable Quotable 421
To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.
- Edmund Burke
We are the last. Almost the ones after the last. Immediately after us begins the world we call, which we have called, which we shall not cease calling, the modern world. The world that tries to be clever. The world of the intelligent, of the advanced, of those who know, who don’t have to be shown a thing twice, who have nothing more to learn. That is to say: the world of those who believe in nothing.
- Charles Peguy
Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
- John Muir
Do you relate yourself to yourself as an individual with eternal responsibility? Or do you press yourself into the crowd, where the one excuses himself with the others, where at one moment there are, so to speak, many, and where in the next moment, each time that the talk touches upon responsibility, there is no one? Do you judge like the crowd, in its capacity as a crowd? You are not obliged to have an opinion about what you do not understand, but you are eternally responsible as an individual to render an account for your opinion, and for your judgment...
...And in eternity, you will not be asked inquisitively and professionally, as though by a newspaper reporter, whether there were many that had the same wrong opinion. You will be asked only whether you have held it, whether you have spoiled your soul by joining in this frivolous and thoughtless judging, because the others, because the many, judged thoughtlessly. In eternity it will be asked whether you may not have damaged a good thing, in order that you also might judge with them that did not know how to judge, but who possessed the crowd’s strength, which in the temporal sense is significant, but to which eternity is wholly indifferent.
- Søren Kierkegaard
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
- Joseph Campbell
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
- John Ruskin
Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.
- Robert Anton Wilson
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.
- Henry David Thoreau
Conclusion
When pen is set to
paper, as in tales
that sing in rhymes
Is always with
conjecture that I
share these special
times
Whether words of
praise
or whether rant and
raves
Seems these
moments only
where the hope of
truth does shine
Was left to me to
search and see if
through reason I
could discern
Sift out what’s fact
from what’s
assumed and know
of what I’ve learned
More than hope
with no pretenses
and without
distortion of
defenses
Knowing truth is
what matters most
in all of life’s
concerns
My study time is
near completion, is
time to test
conclusions
Truths that I’ve
determined from
this world of vast
delusions
Whether scientist or
religious sage
both claim to have
the truth engaged
Yet neither can
defend their
concepts without
mystic illusions
Would rather stand
alas redeemed than
live but few
tomorrows
For all the wages
that’s paid in pain is
just the start of
horrors
To know that
everything that’s
been done
is nothing special
for anyone
Then my reasons
here have cost too
dear for all the loss
in sorrows
Yet I must say that
hopes today are not
lost in all the
theories
Is my quest to put at
rest with answers to
my inquires
Still there’s truth
that can be found
that often turns my
mind around
Expands on hope
for all who wait and
refreshes my heart
that’s weary
- James Moody
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