Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
- 2005
- You know more than you think you do. ~ Benjamin Spock (born 2 May 1903)
- 2006
- We are near waking when we dream that we dream. ~ Novalis (born 2 May 1772)
- 2007
- Love works magic.
It is the final purpose
Of the world story,
The Amen of the universe.
~ Novalis ~
- 2008
- Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. ~ Novalis
- 2009
- We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the Universe. ~ Jerome K. Jerome (born 2 May 1859)
- 2010
- Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world. ~ Novalis
- 2011
- Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word Liberty entire nations. ~ Novalis
- 2012
- True anarchy is the generative element of religion. Out of the annihilation of every positive element she lifts her gloriously radiant countenance as the founder of a new world… ~ Novalis
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- proposed by Kalki — a passage from the King James Version of the Christian Bible, the 2nd of May being selected by the 400th anniversary committee as the official anniversary day of celebration in 2011, though the exact date of publication in 1611 is unknown.
2016
- 2017
- 2018
| The Art of a well-developed genius is far different from the Artfulness of the Understanding, of the merely reasoning mind. Shakspeare was no calculator, no learned thinker; he was a mighty, many-gifted soul, whose feelings and works, like products of Nature, bear the stamp of the same spirit; and in which the last and deepest of observers will still find new harmonies with the infinite structure of the Universe; concurrences with later ideas, affinities with the higher powers and senses of man. They are emblematic, have many meanings, are simple and inexhaustible, like products of Nature; and nothing more unsuitable could be said of them than that they are works of Art, in that narrow mechanical acceptation of the word.
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| ~ Novalis ~
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- 2019
- 2020
| Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions. But their adverse opinion does carry some weight and can do great harm to a new project — at least until the innovation is strong enough to push the "realists" and their moldy notions aside.
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| ~ Theodor Herzl ~
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- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
I don't know what's right and what's real anymore
And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore
And when do you think it will all become clear?
'Cause I'm being taken over by the fear.
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| ~ Lily Allen ~
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- 2024
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In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. ~ Benjamin Spock (born 2 May 1903)
- 3 because all children need some form of guidance. Tarzan and Mowgli have nice stories but they aren't the best characteristic transformations to be had. Zarbon 15:22, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 07:07, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 12:42, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ~ Jerome K. Jerome (born May 2, 1859)
| Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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| ~ Novalis ~
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| Where children are, there is a golden age.
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| ~ Novalis ~
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| Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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| ~ Novalis ~
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| The true philosophical Act is annihilation of self (Selbsttodtung); this is the real beginning of all Philosophy; all requisites for being a Disciple of Philosophy point hither. This Act alone corresponds to all the conditions and characteristics of transcendental conduct.
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| ~ Novalis ~
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