What ARE some of the wise words you have heard ?

One I like is from Shakespeare.

"Nothing will come of nothing. It never has and it never will."

ie, if people do/say nothing, nothing will come of it.

It was from King Lear, I believe.

"Something Lost, is Something Gained."

said the colour-blind man who could see better in the dark.

"Life is cheap, but toilet paper is expensive"

Movie title.

"Such is life"

Ned Kelly.

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Douglas Adams

Bojack would say that the "The Earth is not the center of the universe" and he would scientifically be right.

It_is_the_Light would say that "The Earth is the center of 'our' universe" and he too would be spiritually right.

Can you see where they may 'oppose' one another's view?

Jasin wrote on May 31^st, 2020 at 9:57am:

Bojack would say that the "The Earth is not the center of the universe" and he would scientifically be right. It_is_the_Light would say that "The Earth is the center of 'our' universe" and he too would be spiritually right. Can you see where they may 'oppose' one another's view?

No. They are 2 very different questions

The_Barnacle wrote on May 31^st, 2020 at 10:22am:

Jasin wrote on May 31st, 2020 at 9:57am: Bojack would say that the "The Earth is not the center of the universe" and he would scientifically be right. It_is_the_Light would say that "The Earth is the center of 'our' universe" and he too would be spiritually right. Can you see where they may 'oppose' one another's view? No. They are 2 very different questions

How so?

So many of us use the expression Better late than never.

A qualification:

Too late is the same as never.

- J.D. Boatwood

Kinda puts the words "Saved by the Cavalry" out as 'never turned up'.

"to be or not to be, that is the question"

That is the best one i reckon.

"Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has.
Use that freedom.
Make up your own mind Riico."
- RASCZAK character - Starship Troopers [movie]



The first line !

Yadda wrote on May 31^st, 2020 at 9:47pm:

"Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom. Make up your own mind Riico." - RASCZAK character - Starship Troopers [movie] The first line !

Yadda Yadda  Yadda, the question is for the want of answers Yadda not just blah blah blah.

Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Yadda wrote on May 31^st, 2020 at 10:17pm:

Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

A wise old man once told me to keep all bases covered.

Johnnie wrote on May 31^st, 2020 at 10:25pm:

Yadda wrote on May 31st, 2020 at 10:17pm: Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. A wise old man once told me to keep all bases covered.

Wise words indeed JD

Is Bojack a wise man?
Does he have evidence for this?

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When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, Einstein said, "What I admire most about your art, is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet ... the world understands you." "It's true", replied Chaplin, "But your fame is even greater: The world admires you, when nobody understands what you say."

Captain Nemo wrote on Jun 5^th, 2020 at 11:34pm:

https://i.imgur.com/RLiSQod.jpg When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, Einstein said, "What I admire most about your art, is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet ... the world understands you." "It's true", replied Chaplin, "But your fame is even greater: The world admires you, when nobody understands what you say."

Thanks Captain.

Very good.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

get drunk
fall over

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 14^th, 2022 at 9:09am:

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson, like too many of his era (May 1803 - April 1882) dished up prolix, overtossed word salad posing as academic theology.

“The sovereignty of this nature wherof we speak is made known by its independency of those limitations which circumscribe us on every hand. The soul circuscribeth all things. As I have said, it contradicts all experience. In like manner it abolishes time and space. The infuence of the senses has, in most men, overpowered the mind to that degree, that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real, and insurmountable; and to speak of levity of these limits is, in the world, a sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul A man is capable of abolishing them both. the spirit sports with time" -

“Can crowd eternity into an hour,
Or stretch an hour into eternity"

   Emerson . 'The Over Soul’

Ayn Marx wrote on Jan 15^th, 2022 at 4:45pm:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 14th, 2022 at 9:09am: Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson, like too many of his era (May 1803 - April 1882) dished up prolix, overtossed word salad posing as academic theology. “The sovereignty of this nature wherof we speak is made known by its independency of those limitations which circumscribe us on every hand. The soul circuscribeth all things. As I have said, it contradicts all experience. In like manner it abolishes time and space. The infuence of the senses has, in most men, overpowered the mind to that degree, that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real, and insurmountable; and to speak of levity of these limits is, in the world, a sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul A man is capable of abolishing them both. the spirit sports with time" - “Can crowd eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour into eternity"    Emerson . 'The Over Soul’

Well, the words quoted by sprintcyclist are very easy reading, well-crafted, and a wonderful antidote to excessive procrastination over past mistakes.

As for the passage you quoted, it is indeed "prolix" and not so easily understood.

But I suspect your negativity has something to do with your delusional 'sovereign/rational individual' ideology (as to be expected by a follower of Rand).

So let's look at Emerson's  first sentence, in the paragraph you quoted:

"The sovereignty of this nature wherof we speak is made known by its independency of those limitations which circumscribe us on every hand".

Hmm....the soul is independent of the individual's failings, a proposition which is a direct contradiction of Ayn Rand's 'rational individual' thesis, (indeed she rejects the concept of 'soul'). 

I can see why you impulsively rejected Emerson's  paragraph as a  "prolix, overtossed word salad posing as academic theology"......

Quote:

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more,

There Is A Pleasure In The Pathless Woods
Lord Byron

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 29^th, 2022 at 5:42am:

Quote: There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, There Is A Pleasure In The Pathless Woods Lord Byron

Very Wordsworthian : "I wandered lonely as a cloud, the sounding cataracts haunted me like a passion....

These guys must have been escaping the horrors of the industrial revolution, and predations of empire....

' .........  For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.  ......... '

Vincent

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“You’re not rich until you have something that money can’t buy” ~ (I don’t know who quoted that)

“You’ll either be a voice that someone must overcome, or you’ll be a voice that helps someone overcome” ~ (youth dynamics)

From the Holy Bible

Proverbs 3:13-18: Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

• The Modern Greek word for WISDOM is SOPHIA (as in Sophia Loren etc). If you have read this post then you have learned a very important Greek word today. SOPHIA ----> WISDOM. It is a very respectful and popular name amongst Mediterranean people and this name appears right through my family. i

My neighbour explaining to me the correct way to get the cat in the carrier


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Lisa Jones wrote on May 11^th, 2022 at 9:00am:

From the Holy Bible Proverbs 3:13-18: Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. • The Modern Greek word for WISDOM is SOPHIA (as in Sophia Loren etc). If you have read this post then you have learned a very important Greek word today. SOPHIA ----> WISDOM. It is a very respectful and popular name amongst Mediterranean people and this name appears right through my family.

The Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (Istanbul), the finest cathedral in Christendom for a thousand years, until the Ottomans captured the city in 1453, and converted it into a mosque.

Homosexuality: making a simple thing more complicated than it needs to be, just to appear more sophisticated than they really are.

Redneck overbreeding: making a simple thing a more complicated problem for everyone else to pay for.

Ok.

I knew you'ld understand Mothra. ;)