Adages & Proverbs

[zinnat]

Names are the guests of reality - Taoist Sage Zhuangzi

with love,
sanjay

[zinnat]

Listen like a student, question like a master. - Myself.

with love,
sanjay

[Ierrellus]

". . . presume not God to scan,
The proper study of Mankind is Man_."---Alexander Pope

[Ierrellus]

"There is no cure for birth and death except to try to enjoy the interval". --George Santayana

[Lev Muishkin]

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

J. Krishnamurti.

[Arcturus Descending]

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi


How I do love that guy.

[Ierrellus]

Live to learn to live to learn to live.

[zinnat]

Money is not everything but one must have just enough of that to realize that fact.

- an Indian stock broker said in an interview.

with love,
sanjay

[Arminius]

"Fischer's Fritze fischte frische Fische."
Translation:
"Fisher's Fritze fished fresh fish."

"Was Du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, erwirb es, um es zu besitzen." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Faust" (I), S. 39.
Translation:
"What you have inherited from your fathers, acquire it in order to possess it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Faust" (I), p. 39.

[Arminius]

Heraklit:

"Πάντα ῥεῖ "
"Panta rhei."
Translation:
"Everything flows."

"ποταμοῖσι τοῖσιν αὐτοῖσιν ἐμβαίνουσιν, ἕτερα καὶ ἕτερα ὕδατα ἐπιρρεῖ."
"Potamoisi toisin autoisin embainousin, hetera kai hetera hudata epirrei."
Translation:
"Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers."

"τὰ ὄντα ἰέναι τε πάντα καὶ μένειν οὐδέν."
"Ta onta ienai te panta kai menein ouden."
Translation:
"All entities move and nothing remains still."

"πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει" καὶ "δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης."
"Panta chōrei kai ouden menei kai dis es ton auton potamon ouk an embaies."
Translation:
"Everything changes and nothing remains still ... and ... you cannot step twice into the same stream."

[Arminius]

"Lachen ist die beste Medizin."
Translation:
"Laughing is the best medicine."

"Wo viel Licht ist, ist auch viel Schatten." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Götz von Berlichingen", 1773.
Translation:
"Where much light is, there is also much shadow." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Götz von Berlichingen", 1773.

"Das ist nicht das Gelbe vom Ei."
Translation:
"That is not the yellow of the egg." The meaning is: "It's not exactly brilliant."

untab

[zinnat]

All men die but not all men live.

- A dialouge from the film Braveheart.

with love,
sanjay

[Arminius]

"Lieber ein Ende mit Schrecken als ein Schrecken ohne Ende."
Translation:
"Rather an end with scare than a scare without end."

"Nur wer gegen den Strom schwimmt, kommt an die Quelle."
Translation:
"Only who swims against the flow, comes to the source."

[zinnat]

The God is a facilitator, not an imposer.

- myself.

with love,
sanjay

[MagsJ]

I have cleaned up the thread from all off-topic posts.

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[Lev Muishkin]

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolo Machiavelli

[Lev Muishkin]

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Lev Muishkin]

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle

[Ierrellus]

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
The cistern contains; the fountain overflows.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
3 from Blake

[frost]

"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people." -Niccolo Machiavelli

[Platospuppy1]

Beware! The devil wears the mask of a saint.

[Ierrellus]

To the question "Where does the soul go, when the body dies?" Jacob Boehme answered: "There is no necessity for it to go anywhere."

[Zoot Allures]

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious" - Oscar Wilde