Franklin on men as badly made
Men I find to be a sort of Being very badly constructed, as they are generally more easily provok’d than reconcil’d, more dispos’d to do Mischief to each other than to make Reparation, much more easily deceiv’d than undeceiv’d, and having more Pride and even Pleasure in killing than begetting one another […]
Heinlein on specialization
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Ayn Rand on man’s purpose
[…] man exists for his own sake, that the pursuit of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose, that he must never sacrifice himself to others or sacrifice others to himself.
“It is solved by walking” orig + author
“Solvitur ambulando”
St Augustine
Lincoln asks for peace during his First Inaugural Address, Mar 4, 1861
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Latin motto of AARO (English) (full name)
Universum mutao est. Vita nostra est quod cogitationes nostra facere est. (The universe is changing. Our life is what our thoughts make of it.) (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office)
“Dirty Harry” famous quote
I know what you’re thinking – “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But, being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk?
“Ferris Bueller” quote
Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Shema
Shema Yisrael, Adonai eloheinu, Adonai echad
(Here oh Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is one)
6-word short story by Sam Altman
near the singularity; unclear which side.
“the growing good of the world”, author, work
[…] the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
motto of the Royal Society
(translation)
“Nullius in verba”
(take no one’s word for it)
diCaprio on Diddy
The man can dance, but it’s the shadows that move with him you need to watch.
advice from Rossillion to her son; play name, author
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none”
All’s Well that Ends Well
Shakespeare
Joe Hudson on joy
Joy is the matriarch of the family of emotions, and she won’t come into your house until her children are welcome.
van Gogh on normality
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
