“Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.” Confucius
Oct 052007
Quotes
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. –Woody Allen
Oct 052007
“Happiness (Eudomainia) consists not in how one feels but how or what one is.” Aristotle
“To know what is truly so and to do what is truly good.” – Bernard Lonergan
“Mere knowledge is not enough. It should be followed by appropriate action.” Gandhi
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” — Leo Tolstoy
“Happiness is the light on the water and the water is cold and dark and deep.” William Maxwell
There are no answers, only choices: Existentialism
“Always do what you are afraid to do” — Emerson
“They succeed because they think they can” — Virgil
“Erratus ergo sum” – Augustine
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” unknown
You sanctify what you are grateful for – Anthony de Mello
“I have discovered that all our unhappiness comes from one thing: that we cannot bear to sit in our room, alone and silent.” Pascal
“…silence is the essence of inwardness, of the inner life.” Kierkegaard
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. – William Wordsworth
The ambitious run day and night in pursuit of honors, constantly in anguish about the success of their plans, dreading the miscalculation that may wreck everything. Thus they are alienated from themselves, exhausting their real life in service of the shadow created by their insatiable hope. – Thomas Merton
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Oct 052007
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. –Woody Allen And behold joy and gladness… let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. Isaiah 22:13 Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a [more …]
Oct 072005
“Our search for the ultimate meaning of our lives is not a matter of a particular intelligence, or some special effort, or even exceptional means. Rather, finding the ultimate truth is like discovering something beautiful along one’s path. One sees and recognizes it, if one is attentive. The issue then, is this attention.” Father Luigi Giussani
Oct 062005
“It is not enough to teach man a specialty. Through it he may become a kind of useful machine but not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that the student acquire a vivid sense of the beautiful and of the morally good. Otherwise he – with his specialized knowledge – more closely resembles a well trained dog than a harmoniously developed person.” – Einstein
Oct 062005
“Projects undreamed-of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants… Comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts will ache, and their lives will be barren, if they have not a vision above material things.” Winston Churchill, “Thoughts and Adventures”
Oct 062005
“My life is a listening; His is a speaking. My salvation is to hear and respond. For this, my life must be silent. Hence, my silence is my salvation.” – Thomas Merton
Oct 062005
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”
Albert Einstein
Oct 062005
“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.” Albert Einstein
Oct 062005
“Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.” Epicurus
Oct 052005
“It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds” – St Augustine
Oct 052005
“Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.” – Woody Allen
Oct 052005
“My God is me. Whatever I regain is mine by right. This is the source of all my strength and pride.” – Adam
Oct 052005
“Science without religion is lame. Religion without Science is blind.” Albert Einstein
Oct 052005
“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.” – Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Letter to Bolyai, 1808)
Oct 052005
“Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man” – Thoreau
Oct 052005
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” – Oscar Wilde
Oct 052005
“Yes, I can see all the works of a great civilization; but why cannot I meet any civilized persons? I only encounter specialists, artists who know nothing of science, scientists who know nothing of art, philosophers who have no interest in God, priests who are unconcerned with politics, politicians who only know other politicians.” – W.H. Auden (describing what an ancient Athenian might say of our civilization)
Oct 052005
“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.” – Benjamin Franklin
Oct 052005
“There is no method but to be very intelligent.” – T.S. Eliot
Oct 052005
“And yet, there is just the delight of finding something out and teaching it to others.”
Oct 042005
“It is Jesus [who] you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted” Pope John Paul II
Oct 042005
“The man who stakes his whole life on its pleasurable moments often becomes desperate in his search for them.”
Oct 042005
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Apr 012005
Einstein ———————– “The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.” “Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.” “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can [more …]
Jan 262005
“A mathematician learns more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing, whereas a philosopher learns less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything.”