Naturam expellas furca…
Posted: December 26, 2010 Filed under: regular | Tags: latin, quotes Leave a comment »
I don’t know if I entirely agree with this old adage, but I think it is funny:
“Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.”
(You can drive nature out with a [pitch]fork, but she always comes back.)
Seasons
Posted: December 19, 2010 Filed under: regular | Tags: quotes, reflections Leave a comment »To Every Thing There is a Season – Ecclesiastes 3. 1-8
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Quote of the Day: Voltaire
Posted: December 4, 2010 Filed under: regular | Tags: atrocities, christianity, islam, quotes, religion, skepticism, voltaire Leave a comment »What is on my mind today? Violence against human beings that has been incited by religion (or abuse of religion).
“Formerly there were those who said: You believe things that are incomprehensible, inconsistent, impossible because we have commanded you to believe them; go then and do what is unjust because we command it. Such people show admirable reasoning. Truly, whoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you unjust. If the God-given understanding of your mind does not resist a demand to believe what is impossible, then you will not resist a demand to do wrong to that God-given sense of justice in your heart. As soon as one faculty of your soul has been dominated, other faculties will follow as well. And from this derives all those crimes of religion which have overrun the world.”
Alternative condensed translation:
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
Love and Loss
Posted: December 1, 2010 Filed under: regular | Tags: grief, loss, love, quotes Leave a comment »
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
— Leo Buscaglia
