Your Quote of the Day

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Isaac Asimov

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
A. Hitler.

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

LOL

Give a man a corn, and he'll have a snack for a few minutes. Show him how to grow corn, and he'll be corny all his life.

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984

Tsarstepan

Johannes Brahms: "Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind."

"‘The way of the mystic and the way of the artist are related, except that the mystic doesn’t have a craft.”
Jean Erdman, wife of Joseph Campbell.

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov

Love it!

Yes!

Every ambitious would-be empire clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it! ~Taylor Caldwell, Testimony of Two Men, 1968

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

"Everything is improved with the flavor of bacon , including bacon"
-Setanta

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

"There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place" -Washington Irving

Year after year, I keep coming back to this quotation.
As a Gemini who doesn't believe in astrology, but recognizes myself in the description of same, it fits me to a tee.
To folks like me, being 'Bruised in a new place' is far preferable to being bored in an old place.

Couldn't agree more, jjorge.

“No sword
Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,
But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word
She shook the world.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting "Gotcha". It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it.'
'Why not?'
'Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe