Your Quote of the Day

“I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.”
― Dylan Thomas

Where do you get all these, Ed? Do you subscribe to quote of the day or sumin'?

“No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.”
― Albert Schweitzer

"I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.”
Babe Ruth
- Reported reply when a reporter objected that the salary Ruth was demanding ($80,000) was more than that of President Herbert Hoover's ($75,000)

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~ Albert Einstein

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.
Henry David Thoreau

The "soul" can be nothing but a material object to an atheist. As such it is just another word for mind/brain/body.

It can be part of one's character and die with one, in my definition. It is linked with a human's imagination and sense of being.

It cannot be immaterial ed. An immaterial entity could migrate. You are playing with words.

An atheist is committed to the Materialist Theory of Mind. The usual inability to tolerate such a notion explains the genesis of religion. If the scientist cannot describe the soul he has to deny its existence. Or play semantical games and hope nobody notices.

"The best time in a man's life is when he gets to like Americans."

General Strong. A Brit intelligence officer in WW2.

You are playing with delusions.

It depends what your definition of "is" is.

It struck me ed that the best time is when a man finds out why he likes Americans.

Does the man like all Americans or just the ones he has dealt with personally? There are an awfully lot of us here to like.

I imagine it was mostly top brass ed. On the male side at least.

I feel the rest of us were disrespected. Not that we all are worth loving. Still, the man should have given us each $100.

“The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.”
― Erica Jong

I love Erica Jong, edgar. Great quote.

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

I wonder if Edmund was any kin to Solomon?