January 16

January 16 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. ~ Ernest Hemingway
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love... I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. (Martin Luther King Day 2006 in U.S.)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better. A better state of one's feelings or simply the idea of a silence in one's self that allows one to think or to feel. Which to me is the same. ~ Susan Sontag (born January 16, 1933)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. ~ Susan Sontag
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~ Evelyn Beatrice Hall
 * proposed by 151.48.89.127


 * 2010
 * Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness. The truths we respect are those born of affliction. We measure truth in terms of the cost to the writer in suffering — rather than by the standard of an objective truth to which a writer's words correspond. Each of our truths must have a martyr. ~ Susan Sontag
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2011
 * We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new? It seems to me that one should always be seeking to talk oneself out of these stark oppositions. ~ Susan Sontag
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feelings… which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment. We have more or less the same bodies, but very different kinds of thoughts. I believe that we think much more with the instruments provided by our culture than we do with our bodies, and hence the much greater diversity of thought in the world. Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking. ~ Susan Sontag
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


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 * 2014


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 * 2015


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 * 2016


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2017


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 * 2018


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 * 2019


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 * 2020


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 * 2021


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 * 2022


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 * 2023


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 * 2024


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 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * DOB: Clement Greenberg · Paul Nitze · Susan Sontag

Complete honesty has nothing to do with "purity" or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart. ~ Clement Greenberg (born January 16, 1909)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:04, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. ~ Clement Greenberg
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:21, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~ Susan Sontag
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:04, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue. ~ Susan Sontag
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time. I'd be very afraid to write from a position where I consciously thought I was smarter than most of my readers. ~ Susan Sontag
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC) with lean toward 4.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. ~ Susan Sontag
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC) with STRONG lean toward 4.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. ~ Susan Sontag
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may have a greater intellectual thrust than the truth; it may better serve the needs of the spirit, which vary. The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. ~ Susan Sontag
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC) with lean toward 4.
 * 3 Gartamar27 (talk) 19:34, 18 January 2017 (UTC)