Thursday, July 9, 2026

Collection of previously unused quotes from #138

This post is a collection of previously unused quotes from notebook #138 (8.17.24 to 10.23.24). There are 7 quotes listed below alphabetically by last name.

Donald Knuth (1938-now, computer programmer)
"...the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual." (AZQuotes.com)

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957, poet)
"The great artists are the ones who dare to entice to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful." (The Immoralist, 1902)

Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903, historian)
"To create order amidst this chaos did not require either brilliance of conception or a mighty display of force, but it required a clear insight into the interests of Rome and of her subjects, and vigor and consistency in establishing and maintaining the institutions recognized as necessary." (The History of Rome, 1854-1856)

Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953, playwright)
"A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself... So long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe." (Quoted in Conversations with Eugene O'Neill by Mark Estrin)

Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974, writer)
"What would life be like if it were not futile? Futility is the foundation upon which it rests. On what other foundation could it have been based which would have held and never given way?" (The Dwarf, 1944)

Boris Pasternak (1890-1960, writer)
"The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say." (My Sister, Life and Other Poems)

Władysław Reymont (1867-1925, writer)
"It is only our expectations of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible - because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering." (AZQuotes.com)
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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Collection of previously unused quotes from #137

This post is a collection of previously unused quotes from notebook #137 (6.1.24 to 8.16.24). There are 5 quotes listed below alphabetically by last name.

Everett Dean Martin (1880-1941, writer)
"The thinking of the crowd is dogmatic as a result of causes which are similar to those which render compulsive that of certain neurotics." (The Mystery of Religion, 1924)

Deborah Meier (1931-now, educator)
"There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... That all children could and should be innovators of their own theories, critics of other people's ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world. It's an idea with revolutionary implications. If we take it seriously." (The Power of Their Ideas, 2002)

Shigeru Miyamoto (1952-now, video game designer)
"A good idea is something that does not solve one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once." (Quoted in Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, interview with Eurogamer.net, 2010)

Michael Oakescott (1901-1990, philosopher)
"Like Midas, the rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience." (AZQuotes.com)

Ralph Barton Perry (1876-1957, philosopher)
"I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all." (AZQuotes.com)
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Collection of previously unused quotes from #121

This post is a collection of previously unused quotes from notebook #121 (10.17.21 to 12.11.21). There are 18 quotes listed below alphabetically by last name.

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867, poet)
"Genius is only childhood recovered at will, childhood now gifted to express itself with the analytic mind that allows him to give order to the heap of unwittingly hoarded material." (Le peintre de la vie moderne, 1863)

Annie Besant (1847-1933, activist)
"The soul grows by reincarnation in the bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God." (The Immediate Future, 1913)

Edgar Cayce (1877-1945, clairvoyant)
"It is the 'try' that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure." (AZQuotes.com)

Milton William Cooper (1943-2001, conspiracy theorist)
"Listen to everyone, read everything; believe absolutely nothing unless you can prove it in your own right." (AZQuotes.com)

Benjamin Creme (1922-2016, mystic)
"Take sharing as your guide into the future. Release your brothers from the grip of poverty and pain. Open yourselves to the impulses of the soul and establish in your midst the will of God." (The Art of Co-operation, 2002)

Peter Deunov (1864-1944, mystic)
"Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside." (AZQuotes.com)

Dion Fortune (1890-1946, occultist)
"We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not perceive at all, though we may be profoundly affected by them." (AZQuotes.com)

William Quan Judge (1851-1896, mystic)
"To the worldly man karma is a stern nemesis, to the spiritual man karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations." (AZQuotes.com)

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986, spiritual figure)
"Just observe what you are. What you are is the fact: the fact that you are jealous, anxious, envious, brutal, demanding, violent. That is what you are. Look at it, be aware; don't shape it, don't guide it, don't deny it, don't have opinions of it. By looking at it without comparison, you observe; out of that observation, out of that awareness comes affection." (Collected Works, Vol. XIV)

Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854-1934, writer)
"It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive." (AZQuotes.com)

Eliphas Levi (1810-1875, occultist)
"A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard." (AZQuotes.com)

Nostradamus (1503-1566, astrologer)
"Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing, everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen." (AZQuotes.com)

Paracelsus (1493-1541, physician)
"Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God." (Quoted in Paracelsus - Doctor of Our Time by Frank Geert)

Albert Pike (1809-1891, lawyer)
"A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life." (Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, 1871)

Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688- 1772, mystic)
"A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship." (New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine, 1758)

Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017, literary theorist)
"Pride is not a wise counselor. People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world." (Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century, 2003)

Samuel Aun Weor (1917-1977, writer)
"Only by realizing what selfishness and lack of generosity really are can the delicious fragrance of true love and effective generosity, which is not of the mind, burst forth in our hearts." (AZQuotes.com)

Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007, writer)
"That's what guerrilla ontology is - breaking down this one-model view and giving people a multi-model perspective." (Searching for Cosmic Intelligence, interview with Jeffery Elliot, 1980)
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Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Collection of previously unused quotes from #136

This post is a collection of previously unused quotes from notebook #136 (5.4.24 to 6.1.24). There are 7 quotes listed below alphabetically by last name.

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849, composer)
"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art." (Quoted in If Not God, Then What? by Joshua Fost)

Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911, philosopher)
"No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought." (Introduction to the Human Sciences, 1883)

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803, philosopher)
"With the greatest possible solicitude avoid authorship. Too early or immoderately employed, it makes the head waste and the heart empty..." (Briefe, das Studium der Theologie betressend, 1780-1781)

Hans Hofmann (18801966, artist)
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." (Quoted in Keys to Manifesting Your Destiny by Craig Sanders)

Max Horkheimer (1895-1973, philosopher)
"A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professional wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief." (AZQuotes.com)

Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835, philosopher)
"The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument." (AZQuotes.com)

Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746, philosopher)
"All out ideas, or the materials of our reasoning or judging, are received by some immediate powers of perception internal or external, which we may call senses..." (An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, 1728)
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Monday, July 6, 2026

Collection of previously unused quotes from #122

This post is a collection of previously unused quotes from notebook #122 (12.12.21 to 1.2.22). There are 5 quotes listed below alphabetically by last name.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963, wrier)
"Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false..." (Brave New World Revisited, 1958)

Arthur Koestler (1905-1983, writer)
"Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious disease." (AZQuotes.com)

Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935, rabbi)
"An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoin at the moment of creation." (AZQuotes.com)

Arthur Machen (1863-1947, mystic)
"There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper." (AZQuotes.com)

André Maurois (1885-1967, writer)
"Style is the outcome of restraint." (The Art of Writing, 1960)
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Collection of previously unused quotes from #135

This post is a collection of previously unused quotes from notebook #135 (3.4.24 to 5.4.24). There are 7 quotes listed below alphabetically by last name.

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472, humanist)
"There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect." (AZQuotes.com)

Robert Audi (1941-now, philosopher)
"One is never just a teacher: one is always - even if not consciously - and advocate of a point of view, a critic of certain positions..." (AZQuotes.com)

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706, philosopher)
"Reason is like a runner who doesn't know that the race is over..." (Reply to the Question of a Provincial, 1703)

Erasmus (1466-1536, humanist)
"A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant." (Letter to Christian Northoff, 1497)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940, novelist)
"...the test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." (The Crack-Up, 1936)

Paulo Freire (1921-1997, philosopher)
"Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students." (Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1968)

Haruki Murakami (1949-now, novelist)
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." (Norwegian Wood, 1987)
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Sunday, July 5, 2026

List of previously unused quotes from notebooks posts

This post is a list of previously unused quotes from notebooks post. There are 15 posts listed below chronologically by notebook date.
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