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Thu 29 May 2025

EarthSky

Posted by PJ under gods, poetry, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I am a child of Earth and starry Sky,
but my race is heavenly. You yourselves know this.
I am parched with thirst and am dying, but quickly grant me
cold water flowing from the lake of Memory.”

—Orphic tablet quoted in The Orphic Poems by M. L. West

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 8 May 2025

Locked

Posted by PJ under patience, questions and answers, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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Mon 5 May 2025

Uncertainty

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, science, uncertainty
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Random quote of the day:

“Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.”

—Lewis Thomas, Discovery Magazine, 1980

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Mon 28 Apr 2025

Heart

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the divine, the universe
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Random quote of the day:

“People who love the divine go around with holes in their hearts, and inside the hole is the universe.”

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

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Tue 22 Apr 2025

Ethics

Posted by PJ under ethics, quote of the day, religion
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Random quote of the day:

“Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life—it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.”

—Albert Schweitzer, quoted in Albert Schweitzer: The Man and His Mind by George Seaver

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Mon 7 Apr 2025

Wrong

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, right and wrong
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Random quote of the day:

“If there is one mental vice, indeed, which sets off the American people from all other folks who walk the earth…it is that of assuming that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that ninety-nine percent of them are wrong.”

—H. L. Mencken, “The American: His New Puritanism,” The Smart Set

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Thu 3 Apr 2025

Calm

Posted by PJ under cats, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.”

—Jules Renard, Journal, January 1889 (tr. Bogan and Roget)

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Mon 10 Mar 2025

Chaos

Posted by PJ under chaos, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Ancient Egyptians believed that the first and most necessary ingredient in the universe was chaos. It could sweep you away, but it was also the place from which all things start anew.”

—Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways

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Mon 27 Jan 2025

Language

Posted by PJ under language, quote of the day, talking, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

—Karl Kraus, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

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Mon 20 Jan 2025

Search

Posted by PJ under america, quote of the day, seeking
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Random quote of the day:

“We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.”

—Waldo Frank, Our America

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