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Dalai Lama
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness"
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Rabbi Mendel Dalfin
"God created every person the way they are. If God made someone not Jewish, it means his mission in life is not to be Jewish."
"We don't believe in locking ourselves up. God put us in the world. We have to be part of the world, not separate."
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Abbe D'Allainval
"The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice."
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"I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man ... public opinion."
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."
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Krishna Das
"Grace wakes us up when we are asleep, brings light to where there is darkness and removes obstacles from our path"_____
Richard J. Davidson
[professor of psychology and psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison; founder and chair of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center]
"We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain."
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Charles de Gaulle
* "Deliberation is the function of many; action is the function of one."
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Samuel R. Delany
"Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what conditions existed outside their boundaries, they could get the people to fight to stay in those conditions. It was the old adage: Convince a slave that he’s free, and he will fight to maintain his slavery."
"Oh, for the rebirth of an educational system where understanding was an essential part of knowledge."
"No man can wield absolute power over other men and still retain his own mind. For no matter how good his intentions are when he takes up the power, his alternate reason is that freedom, the freedom of other people and ultimately his own, terrifies him. Only a man afraid of freedom would want this power, who could conceive of wielding it. And that fear of freedom will turn him into a slave of this power."
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Rene Descartes
* "Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
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Philip K. Dick
* "Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it."
"The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give."
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Charles Dickens
* "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolshness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." - A Tale of Two Cities
*"Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule."
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Emily Dickinson
"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."
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Denis Diderot
* "A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence skepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally,because it is the touchstone."
"Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs."
"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step."
"In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice."
"No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings."
"Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it."
"La puissance qui s'acquiert par la violence n'est qu'une usurpation, et ne dure qu'autant que la force de celui qui commande l'emporte sur celle de ceux qui obéissent." = "Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey."
"The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual."
"The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers."
* "Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
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"I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous."
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Rep. John Dingell, D-Michigan
"The American people would get better government out of Monkey Island at the local zoo than we're giving them today."
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Walter Elias Disney
"All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them."
* "Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life.... I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom."
"Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."
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Benjamin Disraeli
"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
"You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art."
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Henry Doherty
"Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least."
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
* "Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone."
"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."
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William O. Douglas
"A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purposes when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it presses for acceptance of an idea." - Writing for the court, Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949)
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Alexandre Dumas
"How swiftly our dreams soar on the wings of imagination!"
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William James Durant
* "It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because of what you have been; because of your heredity stretching back into forgotten generations; because of every element of environment that has affected you, every man or woman that has met you, every book that you have read, every experience that you have had; all these are accumulated in your memory, your body, your character, your soul. So with a city, a country, and a race; it is its past, and cannot be understood without it."
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William Dyer
“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
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“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
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