July 2

July 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * With great power comes great responsibility. ~ Stan Lee
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. ~ Hermann Hesse (born 2 July 1877)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * There's no life that couldn't be immortal if only for a moment. Death always arrives by that very moment too late.  In vain it tugs at the knob of the invisible door. As far as you've come can't be undone.  ~ Wisława Szymborska ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again. ~ Richard Henry Stoddard ~
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners — I could list a hundred more professions. Their work becomes one continuous adventure as long as they manage to keep discovering new challenges in it. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know." ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Every symbol and combination of symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the center, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge. Every transition from major to minor in a sonata, every transformation of a myth or a religious cult, every classical or artistic formulation was, I realized in that flashing moment, if seen with a meditative mind, nothing but a direct route into the interior of the cosmic mystery, where in the alternation between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth, between Yin and Yang, holiness is forever being created. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
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 * 2013


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 * 2014


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 * 2015


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 * 2016


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 * 2017


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 * 2018


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 * 2019


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


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 * 2022


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 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Ranking system:
 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions
The world is a fine place and worth fighting for. ~ Ernest Hemingway, born that day
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:20, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 121a0012 June 27, 2005 03:52 (UTC)
 * This quote has already been used as a quote of the day, in January 2005. Also, Hemingway's birthday is actually the 21st of July; he died on the 2nd.
 * 2 Zarbon 04:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

And only we few who remain unstripped of fur, untorn from bone, unplucked of soaring feathers, esteemed in all our quills, scales, tusks, and horns, and in whatever else that ingenious protein has seen fit to clothe us with, we, my lord, are your dream, which finds you innocent for now. ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:57, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:02, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan. I'm drowning in debts up to my ears. I'll have to pay for myself with my self, give up my life for my life. ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:57, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 05:02, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Anything in overdose will destroy your liver. I mean, look at cigarettes and look at liquor. Cigarettes says on the packet, this will kill you; it will cause cancer; and you're still smoking it. ~ José Canseco
 * 2 for humorous intent by Canseco. Zarbon 14:38, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 05:02, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:36, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. ~ Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
 * 3 Zarbon 14:38, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:02, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

We have two lives about us, Two worlds in which we dwell, Within us and without us, Alternate Heaven and Hell:— Without, the somber Real, Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal. ~ Richard Henry Stoddard ~
 * 3 Kalki 05:02, 1 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 20:36, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:36, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Not what we would, but what we must Makes up the sum of living; Heaven is both more and less than just In taking and in giving. ~ Richard Henry Stoddard ~
 * 3 Kalki 21:26, 1 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:36, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 00:05, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

''I'm sorry that my voice was hard. Look down on yourselves from the stars, I cried, look down on yourselves from the stars.'' ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * 3 Kalki 16:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:42, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:07, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Whatever we might think of this measureless theater to which we've got reserved tickets, but tickets whose lifespan is laughably short, bounded as it is by two arbitrary dates; whatever else we might think of this world — it is astonishing. ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * 3 Kalki 16:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:42, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 18:07, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

After every war someone has to tidy up. ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 01:12, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

''Those who knew what this was all about must make way for those who know little. And less than that. And at last nothing less than nothing.'' ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 01:12, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

''We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.'' ~ Wisława Szymborska
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 01:12, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

A true seeker could not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wished to find something. But he who had found, could give his approval to every path, every goal; nothing separated him from all of the other thousands who lived in eternity, who breathed the Divine. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

These people were worthy of love and admiration in their blind loyalty, in their blind strength and tenacity. With the exception of one small thing, one tiny little thing, they lacked nothing that the sage and thinker had, and that was the consciousness of the unity of all life. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Love does not entreat; or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4

It matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die! ~ Hermann Hesse
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 01:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4