May 18

May 18 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Love me for love's sake, that evermore thou may'st love on, through love's eternity. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ~ Bertrand Russell (born 18 May 1872)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! ~ Omar Khayyám (born 18 May 1048)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new. ~ Bertrand Russell
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. ~ Bertrand Russell
 * proposed by Kalki

Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.'' ~ Omar Khayyám ~
 * 2009
 * ''The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
 * proposed byNingauble


 * 2010
 * The impartiality which, in contemplation, is the unalloyed desire for truth, is the very same quality of mind which, in action, is justice, and in emotion is that universal love which can be given to all, and not only to those who are judged useful or admirable. Thus contemplation not only enlarges the objects of our thoughts, but also the objects of our actions and our affections: it makes us citizens of the universe, not only of one walled city at war with the rest. In this citizenship of the universe consists man's true freedom, and his liberation from the thralldom of narrow hopes and fears. ~ Bertrand Russell
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2011
 * Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. ~ Bertrand Russell
 * proposed by InvisibleSun
 * 2012
 * proposed by InvisibleSun
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2016


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2107


 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2018


 * proposed by DanielTom


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by DanielTom


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on recent tragedies.


 * 2023


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
A gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing. ~ Bertrand Russell (born May 18, 1872)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:04, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:27, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:25, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own. ~ Bertrand Russell
 * 3.5 DanielTom (talk) 16:07, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:06, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. ~ Bertrand Russell
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 15:41, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:06, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

There is darkness without, and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendour, no vastness, anywhere; only triviality for a moment, and then nothing. ~ Bertrand Russell
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 14:11, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:06, 17 May 2021 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:06, 17 May 2021 (UTC)


 * 3 (Telegram sent by Kenneth Keating during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide) ᘙ (talk) 11:17, 9 December 2022 (UTC)


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