Notable Quotable 421

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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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