September 6

September 6 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. ~ Henry David Thoreau
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake. ~ Frances Wright (born 6 September 1795)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * I saw a rainbow earlier today Lately those rainbows be comin' round like everyday Deep in the struggle I have found the beauty of me God is watchin' and the Devil finally let me be. Here in this moment to myself. ~ Macy Gray ~
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue. ~ Frances Wright
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * The Immortal Principle was first called water by Thales. Anaximenes called it air. The Pythagoreans called it number and were thus the first to see the Immortal Principle as something nonmaterial. Heraclitus called the Immortal Principle fire and introduced change as part of the Principle. He said the world exists as a conflict and tension of opposites. He said there is a One and there is a Many and the One is the universal law which is immanent in all things. Anaxagoras was the first to identify the One as nous, meaning "mind." Parmenides made it clear for the first time that the Immortal Principle, the One, Truth, God, is separate from appearance and from opinion, and the importance of this separation and its effect upon subsequent history cannot be overstated. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
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 * 2013


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 * 2014


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 * 2017


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 * 2018


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 * 2019


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 * 2020


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 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive? ~ Robert M. Pirsig, born this day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:35, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:46, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Trials never end, of course. Unhappiness and misfortune are bound to occur as long as people live, but there is a feeling now, that was not here before, and is not just on the surface of things, but penetrates all the way through: We've won it. It's going to get better now. You can sort of tell these things. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki 21:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:46, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex. ~ Frances Wright
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:46, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:00, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here ~ Macy Gray ~
 * 3 Kalki 23:11, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:21, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

I would like not to cut any new channels of consciousness but simply dig deeper into old ones that have become silted in with the debris of thoughts grown stale and platitudes too often repeated. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best 20-20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

What keeps the world from reverting to the Neandertal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos, transformed into logos but still mythos, the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man. To feel that one is not so united, that one can accept or discard this mythos as one pleases, is not to understand what the mythos is. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Religion isn't invented by man. Men are invented by religion. Men invent responses to Quality, and among these responses is an understanding of what they themselves are. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

We invent earth and heavens, trees, stones and oceans, gods, music, arts, language, philosophy, engineering, civilization and science. We call these analogues reality. And they are reality. We mesmerize our children in the name of truth into knowing that they are reality. We throw anyone who does not accept these analogues into an insane asylum. But that which causes us to invent the analogues is Quality. Quality is the continuing stimulus which our environment puts upon us to create the world in which we live. All of it. Every last bit of it. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

The mythos is a building of analogues upon analogues upon analogues. These fill the collective consciousness of all communicating mankind. Every last bit of it. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

I think it's about time to return to the rebuilding of this American resource...individual worth. There are political reactionaries who've been saying something close to this for years. I'm not one of them, but to the extent they're talking about real individual worth and not just an excuse for giving more money to the rich, they're right. We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

I hope it's been made plain that the real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil. That's why I went to so much trouble to show how technology could be used to destroy the evil. A person who knows how to fix motorcycles... with Quality... is less likely to run short of friends than one who doesn't. And they aren't going to see him as some kind of object either. Quality destroys objectivity every time. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Everything is an analogy. But the dialecticians don't know that. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The hero of the Odyssey is a great fighter, a wily schemer, a ready speaker, a man of stout heart and broad wisdom who knows that he must endure without too much complaining what the gods send… ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them till last. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Between the subject and the object lies the value. This Value is more immediate, more directly sensed than any "self" or any "object" to which it may be later assigned. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Steel can be any shape you want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you are not. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

For the good obtained, and yet in store for our race — let us rejoice! But let us rejoice as men, not as children — as human beings, rather than as Americans — as reasoning beings, not as ignorants. So shall we rejoice to good purpose and in good feeling; so shall we improve the victory once on this day achieved, until all mankind hold with us the jubilee of independence. ~ Frances Wright
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Take a walk down the street and see where this is going. You no longer feel like you are living in your own country. There is a battle going on and we have to defend ourselves. Before you know it there will be more mosques than churches! ~ Geert Wilders
 * 2,5 DanielTom (talk) 17:18, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 6 September 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 0.

Moderate Islam? That's a contradiction. ~ Geert Wilders
 * 2,5 DanielTom (talk) 11:04, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 6 September 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 0.

The lights are going out slowly all over Europe. All over the continent where our culture flourished and where man created freedom, prosperity and civilization. The foundation of the West is under attack everywhere. All over Europe the elites are acting as the protectors of an ideology that has been bent on destroying us for fourteen centuries. An ideology that has sprung from the desert and that can produce only deserts because it does not give people freedom. The Islamic Mozart, the Islamic Gerard Reve, the Islamic Bill Gates; they do not exist because without freedom there is no creativity. With everything in me I believe the ideology of Islam is especially noted for killing and oppression and can only produce societies that are backward and impoverished. ~ Geert Wilders
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 00:46, 1 August 2014 (UTC) [suggest using these two pictures]
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 6 September 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 0.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 6 September 2014 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 6 September 2014 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.