Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-06-09 Jun 9, 2008A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great.~ Calvin CoolidgeAre you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?~ Ronald ReaganOne of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.~ Thomas Sowell Jun 6, 2008Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.~ Aldous HuxleyThe snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.~ Lao-TzuI believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.~ Mary Wortley Montagu Jun 5, 2008The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.~ John UpdikeEvery human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.~ Lydia M. ChildLike an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.~ Robbie Gass Jun 4, 2008The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.~ Anne Morrow LindberghThere exists a “fear of freedom” of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious means by which they can do so, for thereby they lose those traits which cause them to feel separate.~ James A. C. BrownMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.~ Oscar Wilde Jun 3, 2008If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.~ ConfuciusWhen we regard a man as morally responsible for an act, we regard him as a legitimate object of moral praise or blame in respect of it. But it seems plain that a man cannot be a legitimate object of moral praise or blame for an act unless in willing the act he is in some important sense a ‘free’ agent. Evidently free will in some sense, therefore, is a precondition of moral responsibility.~ C. Arthur CampbellHow can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print