Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Haunted]

He who's not busy being born is busy dying
~ Bob Dylan

[blunthead]

CSLewis vol 1...

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the walls of his cell.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

[randallFlaggfan1]

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
- Salvador Dali

I love this one, Mookie.
I noticed that Professor JD posted it in the School Day thread.....

[esspwebmaster]

Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.
Lara Gassen
college papers

[Haunted]

You're dealing with a vampire with a day pass.
Gary Busey

[Becks19]

I love this one, Mookie.
I noticed that Professor JD posted it in the School Day thread.....

!!

[blunthead]

CSLewis vol 2...

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

[JohnDalglish]

He who's not busy being born is busy dying
~ Bob Dylan

Hi,

'It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred'
- also Bob Dylan

Long days and pleasant nights

[Becks19]

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.
- Buddha

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
- William Butler Yeats

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.
- Sigmund Freud

[blunthead]

Later on, when the crowd thinned out I was just about to do the same --Dylan