For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours

 

[the GOAT]

Orchards Smiling through departed leaves, Like diamond sapphires in evening sun Hang ripening fruit and from the eaves Grey sparrows make unending run, Oh happy land, Bless thy fertile soil, Oh happy people born to work and prayer, With God to guide and strength to toil, With heart and help goes will and power.

 

[the GOAT]

The influences that really make and mar human happiness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and goodwill into their relations.

 

[the GOAT]

It is a poor and disgraceful thing not to be able to reply, with some degree of certainty, to the simple questions, What will you be? What will you do?

 

[the GOAT]

If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. the more this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines.

 

[the GOAT]

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

 

[the GOAT]

Man without religion is the creature of circumstance.

 

[the GOAT]

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

 

[the GOAT]

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.

 

[the GOAT]

Never tell a young person that something can not be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.

 

[the GOAT]

Never tell a young person that something can not be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.

 

[the GOAT]

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

 

[the GOAT]

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

 

[the GOAT]

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

 

[the GOAT]

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

 

[the GOAT]

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

 

[the GOAT]

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

 

[the GOAT]

Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.

 

[the GOAT]

We want our children to grow up to be such persons that ill-fortune, if they meet with it, will bring out strength in them, and that good fortune will not trip them up, but make them winners.

 

[the GOAT]

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.