John Fletcher Quotes
English - Dramatist December 20, 1579 - 1625

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
John Fletcher

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
John Fletcher

I find the medicine worse than the malady.
John Fletcher

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
John Fletcher

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.
John Fletcher

The coward's weapon, poison.
John Fletcher

Love's tongue is in his eyes.
John Fletcher

Deed, not words shall speak me.
John Fletcher


Ferdinand Buisson Quotes
French - Activist December 20, 1841 - February 16, 1932

From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
Ferdinand Buisson

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
Ferdinand Buisson

For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.
Ferdinand Buisson

We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
Ferdinand Buisson


Ramana Maharshi Quotes
Indian - Philosopher December 20, 1879 - April 14, 1950
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
Ramana Maharshi

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
Ramana Maharshi

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.
Ramana Maharshi

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
Ramana Maharshi

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
Ramana Maharshi

Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
Ramana Maharshi

The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
Ramana Maharshi

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
Ramana Maharshi

Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.
Ramana Maharshi

Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.
Ramana Maharshi

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
Ramana Maharshi

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
Ramana Maharshi

The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
Ramana Maharshi

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.
Ramana Maharshi

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.
Ramana Maharshi

That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.
Ramana Maharshi


Sidney Hook Quotes
American - Philosopher December 20, 1902 - July 12, 1989

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Sidney Hook

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Sidney Hook

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
Sidney Hook

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Sidney Hook

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Sidney Hook

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
Sidney Hook

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
Sidney Hook

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
Sidney Hook

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
Sidney Hook

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
Sidney Hook

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
Sidney Hook


Max Lerner Quotes
American - Journalist December 20, 1902 - 1992

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
Max Lerner

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
Max Lerner

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
Max Lerner

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
Max Lerner

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
Max Lerner

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
Max Lerner

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
Max Lerner

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.
Max Lerner

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
Max Lerner

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner

To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Max Lerner

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
Max Lerner

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Max Lerner

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
Max Lerner

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
Max Lerner

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Max Lerner

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Max Lerner

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
Max Lerner

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
Max Lerner

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
Max Lerner

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Max Lerner

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
Max Lerner


Morrie Schwartz Quotes
American - Educator December 20, 1916 - November 4, 1995


Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
Morrie Schwartz

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
Morrie Schwartz

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
Morrie Schwartz

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
Morrie Schwartz

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.
Morrie Schwartz

This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.
Morrie Schwartz

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
Morrie Schwartz

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
Morrie Schwartz

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
Morrie Schwartz

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
Morrie Schwartz

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.
Morrie Schwartz

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
Morrie Schwartz

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Morrie Schwartz

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.
Morrie Schwartz

Everything that gets born dies.
Morrie Schwartz

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.
Morrie Schwartz

We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.
Morrie Schwartz
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Morrie Schwartz


David Bohm Quotes
American - Scientist December 20, 1917 - October 27, 1992

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
David Bohm

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
David Bohm

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.
David Bohm

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.
David Bohm

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.
David Bohm

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.
David Bohm

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
David Bohm

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.
David Bohm

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.
David Bohm

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.
David Bohm

But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.
David Bohm

Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.
David Bohm

What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition.
David Bohm

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.
David Bohm

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.
David Bohm

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.
David Bohm

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
David Bohm

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.
David Bohm

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.
David Bohm

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.
David Bohm

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.
David Bohm

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.
David Bohm

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.
David Bohm

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.
David Bohm

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society.
David Bohm

Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began.
David Bohm

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.
David Bohm