March 13

March 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. ~ Joseph Priestley (born 13 March 1733)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world. ~ Hugh Walpole (born 13 March 1884)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane... something sacred shows itself to us … something of a wholly different order, a reality that does not belong to our world, in objects that are an integral part of our natural "profane" world. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Don’t give up! I believe in you all A person’s a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY! ~ Dr. Seuss ~ (from Horton Hears a Who!, the movie adaptation of which is opening tomorrow)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2009
 * The joy of life discovered by the Greeks is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing — even fugitively — in the spontaneity of life and the majesty of the world. Like so many others before and after them, the Greeks learned that the surest way to escape from time is to exploit the wealth, at first sight impossible to suspect, of the lived instant. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself. ~ Hugh Walpole
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki, recent remarks on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; quote from the Winner of Best Picture as well as several other major categories at the 95th Academy Awards.


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it. ~ Hugh Walpole
 * 3 because it's what you do that matters...actions speak louder than words, and in this case, actions are remembered, unfettered by the mortal body. Zarbon 00:54, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 20:08, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear. ~ Percival Lowell
 * 2 Zarbon 05:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 21:59, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Some things in life are flexible and friendly. They realise that a brittle nature does nothing for their popularity, and so adopt an admirable willingness to change. Thus our lives are enriched as we coax these considerate allies into wonderful new forms without disturbing their fundamental chemistry. Take for example: The Truth. ~ David Baboulene
 * 3 Zarbon 05:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Freedom is a noble thing! Great happiness does freedom bring. All solace to a man it gives; He lives at ease that freely lives. ~ John Barbour
 * 2 Zarbon 05:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

For love is of such potent might That of misfortune it makes light. ~ John Barbour
 * 3 Zarbon 05:39, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 21:59, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. ~ Hugh Walpole
 * 3 Kalki 19:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 02:20, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Myth tells how, through the deeds of Supernatural Beings, a reality came into existence, be it the whole of reality, the Cosmos, or only a fragment of reality — an island, a species of plant, a particular kind of human behavior, an institution. Myth, then, is always an account of a "creation"; it relates how something was produced, began to be. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:00, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it — the element of the sacred. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:00, 10 March 2012 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Myth is an extremely complex cultural reality, which can be approached and interpreted from various and complementary viewpoints. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:00, 10 March 2012 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Myths reveal that the World, man, and life have a supernatural origin and history, and that this history is significant, precious, and exemplary. ~ Mircea Eliade
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:00, 10 March 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 14:20, 21 January 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:11, 12 March 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:24, 13 March 2024 (UTC); in regard of his recent death.