favourite quotes
Nescis, mi fili, diem neque horam. Mat. 25, 13
Keep awake therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour
Vigilate itaque, quia nescitis diem neque horam. [vulgata nova]
Balbín: In silentio et spe fortitudo mea.
Epigram by Simonides (556p - 469p):
Ὦ ξεῖν’, ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
[Ō xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tēide
keimetha tois keinōn rhēmasi peithomenoi.]
In English:
Kipling: 'We've only one virginity to lose, And where we lost it there our hearts will be.'
Mark Twain: "The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it."
Grrliz (on the Snape Question): Exactly, there are not two sides to this: there are so many sides, it's round! (What "it" is, I'm not sure. The fight?)
Hemingway (in The Garden of Eden): 'Now go in and take another sip of that wormwood - tasting truth serum." (the Colonel to Catharine about a bottle of Pernod)
Pratchett (in Men at Arms): 'Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. The want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They will put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.
So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.'
Winston Churchill: Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
C.S.Lewis: Gender is a reality, and a more fundamental reality than sex. Sex is, in fact, merely an adaptation to organic life of a fundamental polarity which divides alll created beings. Female sex is simply one of the things that have feminine gender; there are many others, and Masculine and Feminine meet us on planes of reality where male and female would simply be meaningless. (i.e., gender is not a mere imaginative extension of sex; male and female are sex, masculine and feminine are gender)
G.K. Chesterton (illustrating the urge of alpinism): I think the immense act has something about it human and excusable; and when I endeavour to analyse the reson of this feeling I find it to lie, not in the fact that the thing was big or bold or successful, but in the fact that the thing was perfectly useless to everybody, including the person who did it.
Jewish lore: All is forseen but the choice is given.
anonymous: Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice shame on me.
anonymous: And sure as shit and taxes this acccident happens a week later.
česky:
Marek Šmíd [Masaryk a česká Katolická moderna]: 'Zhoubný vliv panictví, bezženství a náboženské znehodnocení ženy, které učinily z mravnostního hlediska ideálem mnicha, přičítal Masaryk vlivu svatého Pavla. Stejně tak Katolická moderna žádala zrušení celibátu;...'
Jacques Le Goff: 'A z krizí se rodí pokrok.'
anonym: "Je nebezpečné milovat lidstvo, pokud nemilujeme člověka"
anonym: 'rozdílnost uvnitř populací je mnohem větší než rozdílnost mezi populacemi'
Proust: 'Jsou kopcovité a nesjízdné dny, jejichž zlézání trvá nekonečně dlouho, i svažité dny, které se sjíždí plnou rychlostí a se zpěvem.'
Kant (in Kritik der Praktishen Vernunft): "Jednej tak, aby zásady tvé vůle mohly platit jako princip obecného zákonodárství." (kategorický imperativ)
německy:
Mefistofeles: 'Blut ist ein ganz besonderer Saft' (Krev je zcela zvláštní šťáva.)
Keep awake therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour
Vigilate itaque, quia nescitis diem neque horam. [vulgata nova]
Balbín: In silentio et spe fortitudo mea.
Epigram by Simonides (556p - 469p):
Ὦ ξεῖν’, ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
[Ō xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tēide
keimetha tois keinōn rhēmasi peithomenoi.]
In English:
Kipling: 'We've only one virginity to lose, And where we lost it there our hearts will be.'
Mark Twain: "The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it."
Grrliz (on the Snape Question): Exactly, there are not two sides to this: there are so many sides, it's round! (What "it" is, I'm not sure. The fight?)
Hemingway (in The Garden of Eden): 'Now go in and take another sip of that wormwood - tasting truth serum." (the Colonel to Catharine about a bottle of Pernod)
Pratchett (in Men at Arms): 'Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. The want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They will put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.
So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.'
Winston Churchill: Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
C.S.Lewis: Gender is a reality, and a more fundamental reality than sex. Sex is, in fact, merely an adaptation to organic life of a fundamental polarity which divides alll created beings. Female sex is simply one of the things that have feminine gender; there are many others, and Masculine and Feminine meet us on planes of reality where male and female would simply be meaningless. (i.e., gender is not a mere imaginative extension of sex; male and female are sex, masculine and feminine are gender)
G.K. Chesterton (illustrating the urge of alpinism): I think the immense act has something about it human and excusable; and when I endeavour to analyse the reson of this feeling I find it to lie, not in the fact that the thing was big or bold or successful, but in the fact that the thing was perfectly useless to everybody, including the person who did it.
Jewish lore: All is forseen but the choice is given.
anonymous: Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice shame on me.
anonymous: And sure as shit and taxes this acccident happens a week later.
česky:
Marek Šmíd [Masaryk a česká Katolická moderna]: 'Zhoubný vliv panictví, bezženství a náboženské znehodnocení ženy, které učinily z mravnostního hlediska ideálem mnicha, přičítal Masaryk vlivu svatého Pavla. Stejně tak Katolická moderna žádala zrušení celibátu;...'
Jacques Le Goff: 'A z krizí se rodí pokrok.'
anonym: "Je nebezpečné milovat lidstvo, pokud nemilujeme člověka"
anonym: 'rozdílnost uvnitř populací je mnohem větší než rozdílnost mezi populacemi'
Proust: 'Jsou kopcovité a nesjízdné dny, jejichž zlézání trvá nekonečně dlouho, i svažité dny, které se sjíždí plnou rychlostí a se zpěvem.'
Kant (in Kritik der Praktishen Vernunft): "Jednej tak, aby zásady tvé vůle mohly platit jako princip obecného zákonodárství." (kategorický imperativ)
německy:
Mefistofeles: 'Blut ist ein ganz besonderer Saft' (Krev je zcela zvláštní šťáva.)