May 28

May 28 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures — in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie. ~ Ismail Merchant (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * What I do know for certain is that what is regarded as success in a rational materialistic society only impresses superficial minds. It amounts to nothing and will not help us rout the destructive forces threatening us today. What may be our salvation is the discovery of the identity hidden deep in any one of us, and which may be found in even the most desperate individual, if he cares to search the spiritual womb which contains the embryo of what can be one's personal contribution to truth and life. ~ Patrick White (born 28 May 1912)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * I have the same idea with all my books: an attempt to come close to the core of reality, the structure of reality, as opposed to the merely superficial. The realistic novel is remote from art. A novel should heighten life, should give one an illuminating experience; it shouldn't set out what you know already. I just muddle away at it. One gets flashes here and there, which help. I am not a philosopher or an intellectual. Practically anything I have done of any worth I feel I have done through my intuition, not my mind... ~ Patrick White
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2008
 * In my books I have lifted bits from various religions in trying to come to a better understanding; I've made use of religious themes and symbols. Now, as the world becomes more pagan, one has to lead people in the same direction in a different way... ~ Patrick White
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world. ~ Louis Agassiz (born 28 May 1807)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2010
 * War of any kind is abhorrent. Remember that since the end of World War II, over 40 million people have been killed by conventional weapons. So, if we should succeed in averting nuclear war, we must not let ourselves be sold the alternative of conventional weapons for killing our fellow men. We must cure ourselves of the habit of war. ~ Patrick White
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * What I am interested in is the relationship between the blundering human being and God. I belong to no church, but I have a religious faith; it's an attempt to express that, among other things, that I try to do. Whether he confesses to being religious or not, everyone has a religious faith of a kind. I myself am a blundering human being with a belief in God who made us and we got out of hand, a kind of Frankenstein monster. Everyone can make mistakes, including God. I believe God does intervene; I think there is a Divine Power, a Creator, who has an influence on human beings if they are willing to be open to him. ~ Patrick White
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * proposed by InvisibleSun
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Fossil


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by J.A.R.N.Y.


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on recent tragedies.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:


 * Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. ~ William Pitt the Younger
 * used 23 January 2007, proposed by Tamino

Suggestions
I'm iron. I lasted through ten years of war, and now I can last through this. It's true, it's not good for the nerves. ~ Sepp Dietrich (born May 28)
 * 3 because one would have to be steel to withstand many hardships. Zarbon 04:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 280
 * 1 What is being referred to by "this"? - InvisibleSun 17:42, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:54, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one. ~ Patrick White
 * 3 but alas, old age is welcomed. Zarbon 16:52, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:42, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:54, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

The essence of what you have to say you pick up before you're twenty... ~ Patrick White
 * 3 because the perspective and understanding of one is formulated prior to that age. It would be rather difficult to change one's view after this age, dogmatism has become a standard of living, especially for this century. Zarbon 16:52, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 17:42, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:54, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it's not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape. ~ György Ligeti (born May 28)
 * 4 because when both the past and future fail to answer, one is deadlocked. Nice. I love these scenarios. Zarbon 06:18, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:42, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:15, 27 May 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 22:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC) but this should perhaps have more context provided
 * 3 with a mild lean toward 4 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:54, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature? Is it possible that a theory of man is nothing more nor less than a theory of the speaking creatures? ~ Walker Percy
 * 4 InvisibleSun 18:28, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 because man holds intellect, experience, and knowledge to differ from the rest of nature. Even if I were to agree with the quote, which I don't, I would never say that the theory of animals holds prevalence to the theory of man, as barbaric as man may be. Greek philosophy is still strong because it taught mankind the major difference between the rest of the animal kingdom and the intellect of man. I don't want to disagree with InvisibleSun too much, because I do agree with him for many suggestions, but this one here I think I can't agree with the ideology behind. Zarbon 21:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Similar views have been expressed in the Babylonian Talmud. If I can find the specific quote, I’ll put it here. J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:54, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. ~ Ian Fleming (born May 28, 1908)


 * 3 Lyle
 * 2 InvisibleSun 17:42, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 21:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:34, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:54, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive light, there must have been light to enter it. ~ Louis Agassiz
 * 3 Fossil 22:17, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 02:45, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:32, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:30, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:54, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Thales kindled a flame that still burns to this day: the very idea of cosmos out of chaos, a universe governed by the order of natural laws that we can actually figure out. This is the epic adventure that began in the mind of Thales. ~ In commemoration of the solar eclipse of May 28, 585 BCE, from the sixth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 21:00, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:00, 28 May 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 2.
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:54, 27 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 13:32, 21 December 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 13:32, 21 December 2019 (UTC)