So, yes we have a thread called "Profound Quotes"" but to be honest, I find the title somewhat, umm, hard to take seriously. Like so profound, man.So I am starting this new thread, with one rule I kindly ask posters to abide by.1) Quotes only -- no personal comments.Let's see how it goes.Of course, anyone can disregard this and post on the other thread...

It seems like only yesterday that the Enlightenment overthrew the rule of religious orthodoxy, promising an earthly paradise of human fulfillment based solely on scientific reason. Yet today, the enlightened children of skeptics are discovering for themselves that man does not live -- or live well -- by bread alone, not even by bread and circuses, and that science's account of human life and the world is neither adequate to the subject nor satisfying to the longings of the soul.Leon Kass

Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.Almansor, a play by Heinrich Heine written in 1821

Liberal education is education in culture or toward culture. The finished product of a liberal education is a cultured human being. "Culture" (cultura) means primarily agriculture: the cultivation of the soil and its products, taking care of the soil, improving the soil in accordance with its nature. "Culture" means derivatively and today chiefly the cultivation of the mind, the taking care and improving of the native faculties of the mind in accordance with the nature of the mind. Just as the soil needs cultivators of the soil, the mind needs teachers.Leo Strauss - Liberalism Ancient and Modern

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. James Joyce - first line of Finnegans Wake

I wish I had said "I wish I had said that"Cuchulainn -- Wilmott post Sun May 30, 2010.

Bluto: TOGA! TOGA! - Animal House

QuoteOriginally posted by: Traden4AlphaI wish I had said "I wish I had said that"Cuchulainn -- Wilmott post Sun May 30, 2010.

He told his son of the sad dignity that can belong to a soldier, how he is necessary in the light of all the failures of man -- the penalty of our frailties.John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Whatever you can, or dream you can -- begin it!Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.-- attr to English translator of Goethe's Faust for a 19th century opera version.

QuoteOriginally posted by: brontosaurusQuoteOriginally posted by: Traden4AlphaI wish I had said "I wish I had said that"Cuchulainn -- Wilmott post Sun May 30, 2010. Don't Worry, Be HappyMeher Baba

At the basis of the whole modern view of the world lies the illusion that the so-called laws of nature are the explanations of natural phenomena. (6.371)So people stop short at natural laws as something unassailable, as did the ancients at God and Fate.And they are both right and wrong. But the ancients were clearer, in so far as they recognized one clear terminus, whereas the modern system makes it appear as though everything were explained. (6.372)Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

He who exploits faith for personal and political gain is contemptible.Kemal Ataturk