Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
Robert Louis Stevenson

Science is constantly proved all the time. You see, if we take something like any fiction, any holy book and destroyed it, in a thousand years time, that wouldnt come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book, and every fact, and destroyed them all, in a thousand years theyd all be back, because all the same tests would produce the same result.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

[zqwerty]

Ben Franklin said "Beer is how we know God loves us." I say dogs are how we know God loves us - Anon

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The problem is not that people are uneducated. The problem is that they are educated
just enough to believe what they've been taught. And not educated enough to queston what they've been taught.ÔÇØ
Richard Feynman

ÔÇ£Immorality is what destroying us, public immorality. The failure of man toward men, the selfishness that puts making a buck more important than the common weal.ÔÇØ
John Steinbeck

[zqwerty]

"We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests" - FDR

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.ÔÇØ

Robert Louis Stevenson

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Compromise is the best & cheapest lawyer.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£A friend is a gift you give yourself.ÔÇØ

Robert Louis Stevenson

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air, that emanation of old trees, that so wonderfully changes & renews a weary spirit.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£To be what we are, & to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.ÔÇØ
Robert Louis Stevenson

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.ÔÇØ

Robert Louis Stevenson

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£You start a question, & its like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; & away the stone goes,starting others...ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.ÔÇØ


Robert Louis Stevenson

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£I travel not to go anywhere but to go.I travel for travels sake. The great affair is to move.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£There is no duty we underrate so much as being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.ÔÇØ
Robert Louis Stevenson

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Like a bird singing in the rain,let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.ÔÇØ


Robert Louis Stevenson

[Lilith7]

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five pound note. He or she is capable of radiating focus of goodwill, & their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.ÔÇØ

Robert Louis Stevenson

[zqwerty]

"The old world is dying as the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters." - Antonio Gramsci

Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class ÔÇö the bourgeoisie ÔÇö use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies.

Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci

[Lilith7]

"The old world is dying as the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters." - Antonio Gramsci

Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class ÔÇö the bourgeoisie ÔÇö use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies.

Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci

I've never come across him before, poor man, such a  tragic life.

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£In every part or corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.ÔÇØ

ÔÇ£It takes hard writing to make easy reading.ÔÇØ

Robert Louis Stevenson

[Lilith7]

"We are poor indeed if this Nation cannot afford to lift from every recess of American life the dread fear of the unemployed that they are not needed in the world."


ÔÇ£The more you travel, the more you realise that the whole world is one neighbourhood.ÔÇØ

FDR

[Lilith7]

"We are poor indeed if this Nation cannot afford to lift from every recess of American life the dread fear of the unemployed that they are not needed in the world."


ÔÇ£Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all."

FDR

[Lilith7]

Religious intolerance, social intolerance, and political intolerance have no place in our American life."

The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."
FDR

[Lilith7]

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

"The value of truth and sincerity is always stronger than the value of lies and cynicism."
FDR

[zqwerty]

The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.

ÔÇö Turkish proverb



In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway



"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodby so hard" - Winnie the Pooh