February 18

February 18 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. ~ George Bernard Shaw
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005 : Teachers are those who use themselves as bridges, over which they invite their students to cross; then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis (born 18 February 1883)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006 : At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can. ~ Toni Morrison (born 18 February 1931)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
 * proposed by User:Kalki


 * 2008
 * My prayer is not the whimpering of a beggar nor a confession of love. Nor is it the petty reckoning of a small tradesman: Give me and I shall give you. My prayer is the report of a soldier to his general: This is what I did today, this is how I fought to save the entire battle in my own sector, these are the obstacles I encountered, this is how I plan to fight tomorrow. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * Where are we going? Do not ask! Ascend, descend. There is no beginning and no end. Only this present moment exists, full of bitterness, full of sweetness, and I rejoice in it all. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * The Great Spirit does not toil within the bounds of human time, place, or casualty. The Great Spirit is superior to these human questionings. It teems with many rich and wandering drives which to our shallow minds seem contradictory; but in the essence of divinity they fraternize and struggle together, faithful comrades-in-arms. The primordial Spirit branches out, overflows, struggles, fails, succeeds, trains itself. It is the Rose of the Winds. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * All hopes and despairs vanish in the voracious, funneling whirlwind of God. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Nvvchar


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2021
 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of his recent death.


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of it's official opening day.


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * DOB: Nikos Kazantzakis · Toni Morrison · Yoko Ono · Ramakrishna · John Travolta · Wendell Willkie

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published for the first time)
 * proposed by user Sir John Alexander Macdonald
 * 0 Kalki 19:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC) 2 Kalki 23:38, 17 February 2006 (UTC) I would rank this higher with a stronger date tie-in, but I don't believe it's actually from Huckleberry Finn I had suspected this wasn't Twain, but was pretty certain that it wasn't from Huckleberry Finn; as JeffQ's research below indicates there is no reason to accept Twain as the author of this.
 * 0 Jeff Q (talk) 04:51, 29 April 2006 (UTC), unless we can find the correct source. Neither Wikisource nor Project Gutenberg, both of which include Huckleberry Finn, appear to have any Twain work with both the words "belittle" and "ambitions", so we can't even confirm Twain said it, let alone the appropriateness of this date.
 * 0 Zarbon 22:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

You forgot the first rule of the fanatic: when you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy. ~ The Real Ghost Busters - Season 5 Episode 9 "The Halloween Door" - (Original Air Date—29 October 1989)...... Michael O'Hare as "Jeffrey Sinclair", Babylon 5 episode "Infection" (first aired 18 February 1994)
 * 2 Jeff Q (talk) 04:51, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:33, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 11:09, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 because this is true. Many times opponents have become the very thing they hate. I like this quote. Zarbon 22:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
 * 3 Kalki 19:33, 16 February 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:09, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis OR perhaps a variant translation of this: "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free."
 * 3 Kalki 19:33, 16 February 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but would now prefer this variant:
 * I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free.


 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:09, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I choose the ascending path because my heart drives me toward it. "Upward! Upward! Upward!" my heart shouts, and I follow it trustingly. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
 * 3 Kalki 10:39, 17 February 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4, but would now extend this to read:
 * I choose the ascending path. Why? For no intelligible reason, without any certainty; I know how ineffectual the mind and all the small certainties of man can be in this moment of crisis. I choose the ascending path because my heart drives me toward it. "Upward! Upward! Upward!" my heart shouts, and I follow it trustingly.


 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:17, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:34, 27 February 2009 (UTC)


 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 15:33, 3 February 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

With clarity and quiet, I look upon the world and say: All that I see, hear, taste, smell, and touch are the creations of my mind. The sun comes up and the sun goes down in my skull. Out of one of my temples the sun rises, and into the other the sun sets. The stars shine in my brain; ideas, men, animals browse in my temporal head; songs and weeping fill the twisted shells of my ears and storm the air for a moment. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 15:33, 3 February 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Future generations do not move far from you in an uncertain time. They live, desire, and act in your loins and your heart. In this lightning moment when you walk the earth, your first duty, by enlarging your ego, is to live through the endless march, both visible and invisible, of your own being. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 15:33, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander 17:12, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God." and the almond tree blossomed. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 03:03, 11 February 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4, but this might be better on first day of spring.

I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their thoughts creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider's web of thoughts too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion. ~ Ernst Mach (born 1838 Feb 18)
 * 3 bystander 17:21, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:38, 14 February 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in that aspect of it which is important for us, the rest being intentionally or from necessity omitted. ~ Ernst Mach (born 1838 Feb 18)
 * 2 bystander 17:21, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:38, 14 February 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


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 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 12:12, 4 February 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 12:12, 4 February 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.


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 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 12:12, 4 February 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 12:12, 4 February 2013 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.


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 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 12:12, 4 February 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:37, 18 February 2015 (UTC) famous statement, written on a ceiling, in one of her art exhibits.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:37, 18 February 2015 (UTC)


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 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:55, 18 February 2015 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:55, 18 February 2015 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:29, 7 August 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:29, 7 August 2019 (UTC)