The complete aphoristic skeleton: every collected quote with its attribution.
001. "That which can be destroyed by the truth should be."
PC Hodgell
002. "[In Heaven there] is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness: but your darkness cannot now infect our light."
CS Lewis
003. "And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds"
Hebrews 10:24
004. "The ideal of the most high spirited, alive, and world affirming human being who has not only come to terms and learned to get along with whatever was and is, but who wants to have what was and is repeated into all eternity, shouting insatiably da capo [from the beginning]."
Nietzsche
005. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man"
George Bernard Shaw
006. "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum I.3
007. "The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and the changing, not in the become and the set-fast; and therefore, similarly, the reason is concerned only to strive towards the divine through the becoming and the living, and the understanding only to make use of the become and the set-fast."
Goethe
008. "Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer."
Edsger W. Dijkstra
009. "In the silence of the heart, God speaks"
Mother Teresa
010. "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."
Augustine of Hippo
011. "I have had it with crack houses, dictatorships, torture chambers, disease, old age, spinal paralysis, and world hunger. I have had it with a death rate of 150,000 sentient beings per day. I have had it with this planet. I have had it with mortality. None of this is necessary. The time has come to stop turning away from the mugging on the corner, the beggar on the street. It is no longer necessary to close our eyes, blinking away the tears, and repeat the mantra: "I can't solve all the problems of the world." We can. We can end this."
Yudkowsky
012. "Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
GK Chesterton
013. "Probably the most profound illusion under which we normally operate is that we do not take seriously the wonder of other people"
Matthew Adelstein
014. "Few, but ripe."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
015. "When people choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything."
GK Chesterton
016. "Each individual is continually engaged in a personal adjustment process in which he balances the desire for privacy with the desire for disclosure and communication of themself to others, in light of the environmental conditions and social norms set by the society in which they live."
Alan Westin
017. "Ascetics will leave the world alone because they live within the temple or monastery. The Christian on the other hand is the temple that enters into the world in order to redeem it into the Kingdom of God."
Unknown
018. "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
019. "By passion the world is bound; by passion too it is released."
Hevajra Tantra II.ii
020. "The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges"
Edsger W. Dijkstra
021. "Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away."
1 Corinthians 13:8
022. "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
023. "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."
CS Lewis, The Four Loves
024. "Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love"
Rainer Rilke
025. "The safest sin: envy, which is easily disguised as enthusiasm for equality."
Thomas Szasz
026. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
MLK
027. "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."
Friedrich Hayek
028. "I can do all things through him who strengthens me"
Philippians 4:13
029. "The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
J.R.R. Tolkien
030. "And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many."
J.R.R. Tolkien