For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

 

[the GOAT]

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

 

[JeffGu]

In spite of the best efforts of contest participants, the prize will go to the least deserving entrant...

 

[the GOAT]

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you second chances.

 

[the GOAT]

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

 

[the GOAT]

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.

 

[the GOAT]

If you don't co-operate you're gonna suffer from fistophobia.

 

[the GOAT]

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

 

[the GOAT]

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

 

[the GOAT]

Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato ... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

 

[the GOAT]

I think of the words of the prophet ... : And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of Him, this is the testimony, last of all, that we give of Him: That He lives.

 

[the GOAT]

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

 

[the GOAT]

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that decays on growing familiar with its object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual miracles rising up to its view.

 

[the GOAT]

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface To make it welcome.

 

[the GOAT]

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

 

[the GOAT]

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

 

[the GOAT]

Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.

 

[the GOAT]

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

 

[the GOAT]

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

 

[the GOAT]

A cannibal is a guy who goes into a restaurant and orders the waiter.