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Fracastorius

Girolamo Fracastoro (Fracastorius) (c. 1476/8 – 6 August 1553) was an Italian physician, scholar and poet.

Quotes

 * [Contagion] passes from one thing to another, and is originally caused by infection of the imperceptible particle.
 * Hieronymi Fracastorii De Contagione Et Contagiosis Morbis Et Eorum Curatione, Libri III (1930), translation and notes by Wilmer Cave Wright, p. 5

Quotes about Fracastorius

 * A peak unequaled by anyone between Hippocrates and Pasteur.
 * Charles-Edward Armory Winslow, in The Conquest of Epidemic Disease, 1943.

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Talk:H. L. Mencken

What gives? Is this a Wikiquote record for imbalance between sourceds and attributeds? Are any of the attributeds properly attributed, or is Mencken a modern Quinapalus or Mrs Harris? —This unsigned comment is by 14:08, 16 April 2005 (talk • contribs) 203.51.103.134.

 * I think the Puritan quote is sourced. It's a well known quote.

 * "Attributed" means that these quotes were added without sources being provided. If the sources had been included, they would have been placed with the quotes labelled "sourced."  A "properly attributed" quote is therefore, in  Wikiquote practice, a contradiction in terms.  Having quotes referred to as attributed doesn't mean they're assumed to be false; it means that they exist, neither true nor false, until someone gets around to verifying them.  As usually happens, some of them, perhaps even the majority, will be verified and placed under Sourced along with their sources.  Some of these quotes will turn out to have been said by other people; and others will remain attributed because no proof could be found. One thing we're doing now is to replace the term "attributed" with "unsourced" so as to make the distinctions clearer.  Like you, I recognize some of these attributed Mencken quotes as being real. If we had more people working on attributed quotes, we wouldn't have pages like this where the attributed quotes pile up.  I've made it my business here to work on this sort of thing, and doubtless I'll get around in time to this page as well.  But the main problem, as always, is that many Wikiquote contributors, perhaps the majority, don't source their contributions.  Either they don't know the sources; or they can't be bothered to provide them even if they know them; or they don't even know if the quotes are real when they supply them.  People like to add quotes, but they usually don't want to do the actual work of proofing them. It's a dilemma, because what's supposed to make Wikiquote different from the other collections of quotations, whether in online lists or in book form, is this very notion of providing sources.  - InvisibleSun 17:37, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I would add two things to InvisibleSun's excellent reply. First, in Wikimedia projects, there is a distinction between "sourcing" and "verifying". Sourcing means asserting a specific citation of a quote, either in an original work or in another publication that itself cites the quote, if the original is not readily available. (The closer to the original, the better.) However, such a source is merely an assertion, not a guarantee that the quote is legitimate. Verifying a quote is something that any wiki editor can do by checking the source to see if the quote is valid. Since there is no such thing as a Wikiquote editorial board, it is incumbent upon all editors to do this now and then to help keep inaccuracies, mere rumor, and prank-sourcing out of the collection. (Yes, we're very far from being able to do this regularly, but that's the general idea.)

 * My other comment is that, no, this is not a record for a low Sourced-to-Attributed/Unsourced ratio. Not by a long shot, unfortunately. ☺ ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:43, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Quote about Conscience
I can source Mencken's quote on conscience. I am writing a paper on ethics and purchased A. Cooke's (1990) "A Vintage Mencken" (originally published in 1955). The conscience quote as it reads on p. 231 is as follows:

"Conscience is the inner voice which (sic) warns us that someone may be looking."

I have no idea where Mencken originally wrote this....I am trusting A. Cooke's quotation. Cooke mentions that the aphorisms in this section were taken from Mencken's "Smart Set" in 1912 among other places.

It appears that Mencken used a "which" instead of a that.....but then there would have been 2 "thats" in close proximity, so it may have been intentional. Nevertheless, I think the (sic) should be put in there so the modern reader knows to avoid "which" unless it is surrounded in commas.

Thanks,

Scott Wowra, PhD

 * I have a copy of The Vintage Mencken, but I'm interpreting what it says on p. 231 a bit differently. For the sake of others who are reading this, it should be explained that the quote is part of a group entitled "Sententiae," with the following introduction:  "These maxims, epigrams and apothegms cover a long range in time. The earliest were first printed in The Smart Set in 1912; the latest come from notebooks never printed at all.  In 1916 I published a collection under the title of A Little Book in C Major. Four years later it was taken, in part, into a revised edition of A Book of Burlesques, and there survived until that book went out of print in the late 30's."  These Sententiae are then grouped into sections according to theme, with the quote about conscience belonging to the first group, "The Mind of Man."  Here's what I would make of this:  1) It means, first of all, that the "I" of the introductory remarks is Mencken himself,  not Cooke.  Although Cooke was the editor of The Vintage Mencken, he was not born until 1908 and so could not have been the one who said "In 1916 I published," etc.  As it turns out, Mencken himself made a selection from his own works, which was eventually published in 1949 as A Mencken Chrestomathy. These Sententiae were a part of that collection. Cooke, re-publishing these sayings in The Vintage Mencken, was including Mencken's introduction along with them.  2) Since these Sententiae are grouped by theme, with no mention in what work each saying can be found, I wouldn't take this necessarily to mean that the first group of sayings, "The Mind of Man," represents the earliest ones printed in The Smart Set. Rather, each of these thematically grouped sayings could have originated in any of the sources named by Mencken.  There's no telling, therefore, when or where the quote about conscience was first published.  More research would be needed to determine this.  As for the which/that issue, I would agree that the quote is correctedly printed with "which" as in The Vintage Mencken.  I wouldn't use a sic because Wikiquote, in collecting quotations and printing them verbatim, is not editing for grammar or making comments on the same. The reader, in short, will have to learn grammar elsewhere: whatever is quoted on these pages should never be assumed as a model for the reader. (For an example of a writer's highly idiosyncratic grammar and punctuation, presented without need for comment, see the Letters section under Samuel Taylor Coleridge). In any case, the debate on when to use "which" and "that" is one, I think, in which good writers may disagree.  Kenneth Tynan, for instance, in a 1963 essay "Mencken on Language," was a bit taken aback by the strictures of The New Yorker, "on whose staff I was carefully instructed that 'which is appropriate to  non-defining and that to defining clauses.' " - InvisibleSun 21:11, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Would you mind sourcing the "conscience" quote, InvisibleSun? The aphorism dissapeared; this certainly was not my doing.**** Wowra (8/22; 8:22 am)

" He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches" is George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists (Man and Superman) 1903, not Mencken.

'Jackals and Jackasses'
I think I can source the 'Democracy is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses' quote from the last section of the Mencken's 'Chrestomathy'. I'll add page numbers soon.

'Hoist the Black Flag'
This one is from Prejudices, First Series, Chapter 6. I don't have a copy to track down the exact page, but here's a secondary cite. --Jddunn 15:27, 7 January 2009 (UTC)| page 91

Mencken's Creed
Here is the full version from here

 * I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.
 * I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
 * I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty and the democratic form is as bad as any of the other forms.
 * I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.
 * I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech—alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.
 * I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.
 * I believe in the reality of progress.
 * I — But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

LewRockwell.com says, "There is no better way of concluding than to turn to Mencken's noble and moving Credo, written for a "What I Believe" series in a leading magazine." According to the references, the leading magazine is "The Forum (September, 1930), p. 139."

--208.123.186.60 04:02, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * These should be provided with sources before being moved back into the article.

 * A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

 * A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

 * A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

 * Mencken's [very widely attributed, as yet unsourced] pat response to all angry letters:

 * Dear Sir (or Madame), You may be right. Sincerely yours, HL Mencken

 * A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

 * A sandwich made up of two thick and tasteless chunks of Kriegsbrot with a couple of excellent sardines between.
 * Describing F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920 book Flappers and Philosophers

 * After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
 * On William Shakespeare

 * Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.

 * Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

 * Democracy is the pathetic belief in the wisdom of collective ignorance.

 * Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

 * Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

 * I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

 * If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

 * Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

 * It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

 * It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

 * It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities.

 * It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

 * Liberals have many tails and chase them all.

 * Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.

 * Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull.

 * Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

 * Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

 * Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

 * No government, of its own motion, will increase its own weakness, for that would mean to acquiesce in its own destruction ... governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.

 * No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

[That Mencken quote originally appeared in an article entitled "Notes On Journalism" printed in the September 19, 1926 issue of "The Chicago Tribune". It can be found also on page 121 of "A Gang of Pecksniffs".]
 * No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

 * Of all the classes of men, I dislike most those who make their livings by talking — actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. All of them participate in the shallow false pretenses of the actor who is their archetype. It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause of the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

 * One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

 * Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

 * Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.

 * Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

 * Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

 * Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?

 * That Americans, in the mass, have anything properly described as keen wits is surely far from self-evident. On the contrary, it seems likely that, if anything, they lie below the civilised norm.

 * The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.

 * The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked...

 * The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.

 * The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the thirteenth century.

 * The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.

 * The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims – so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

 * The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.

 * The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

 * The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

 * The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

 * The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

 * The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of the truth — that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

 * 'Tis more blessed to give than to receive; for example, wedding presents.

 * Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.

 * When the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before.

 * As I look back over a misspent life, I find myself more and more convinced that I had more fun doing news reporting than in any other enterprise. It is really the life of kings.
 * Attributed to the 1953 Baltimore Sun
 * Appears on the wall of the Baltimore Sun

 * I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
 * Reportedly cited by George Seldes (in Great Thoughts) as “Mencken's Creed”. Currently unsourced, various abridged versions exist similar to the following:
 * I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.
 * I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
 * I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty and the democratic form is as bad as any of the other forms.
 * I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.
 * I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech—alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.
 * I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.
 * I believe in the reality of progress.
 * I — But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

Spelling
In what edition of Notes On Democracy did Mencken use the spellings "flavoured" and "coloured”?

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Jacob Henle

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (July 9, 1809 – May 13, 1885) was a German pathologist and anatomist, born at Fürth, in Franconia.

Quotes

 * Nature answers only when she is questioned.
 * Quoted in The Conquest of Epidemic Disease, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, 1941.

 * The day of the last hypothesis would be also the day of the last observation... An hypothesis displaced by new facts dies an honorable death. If it has itself summoned to its trial the facts by which it is annihilated, it deserves even a monument of gratitude.
 * Handbook of Rational Pathology, 1846-1853

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Guru

Guru (Devanagari is a Sanskrit term for "teacher" or "master", especially in Indian religions. The Hindu guru-shishya tradition is the oral tradition or religious doctrine or experiential wisdom transmitted from teacher to student. In the United States, the meaning of "guru" has also been used to cover anyone who acquires followers, especially by exploiting their naiveté, due to the inflationary use of the term in some new religious movements.

Quotes

 * Alphabetized by author

 * The syllable gu means shadows / The syllable ru, he who disperses them, / Because of the power to disperse darkness / the guru is thus named.
 * Advayataraka Upanishad: 14–18, verse 5.

 * I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.
 * Peter Drucker — quoted in

 * Tim Guest’s extraordinary account of his childhood in the communes of Bhagwan [Rajneesh], the notorious Indian guru, is a survivor’s tale, poignant, funny and wise.

 * Although he reputedly hated the label of ‘guru’, Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet seen. In 1996, the McKinsey Quarterly journal described him as the ‘the one guru to whom other gurus kowtow’ and Robert Heller described him as ‘the greatest man in the history of management’, praise indeed for a man who described himself as ‘just an old journalist’.
 * Robert Heller and Alistair Schofield (2006) "Peter J Drucker (1909~2005)" on extensor.co.uk.

 * Obviously the obedience to the spiritual master includes the risk of abuse. However, charges of abuse should be evaluated within the context of the religious tradition. Gurus who kill or [sexually abuse] their followers may not hide under pretexts of religious freedom. On the other hand, “being a guru” or establishing with the disciples a special relationship of trust and obedience is not illegal. It should not be evaluated through individualist and rationalist standards by media, or even by secular courts of law who do not understand the [ancient] religious principle of surrendering a great part of the disciple’s liberty to a spiritual master.
 * Massimo Introvigne, "In Defense of the Gurus: Why Spiritual Masters Are Persecuted", Bitter Winter (October 2022)

 * Most of the devotees with whom we spoke reported a significant drop in the number of people receiving knowledge starting from late 1973. This created a condition of financial strain which became critical when Millennium '73, an all-out extravaganza held in the Houston Astrodome where Guru Maharaj Ji was crowned 'Lord of the Universe,' proved to be an economic flop. … DLM underwent significant organizational and ideological transformations. It no longer projected itself as a movement that would include all of humanity in its membership.
 * Kirpal Singh Khalsa (June 1986), "New Religious Movements Turn to Worldly Success", Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Blackwell Publishing) 25 (2): 233–247, doi:10.2307/1385479, retrieved on 2008-09-27.

 * If you are not at all concerned with the world but only with your personal salvation, following certain beliefs and superstitions, following gurus, then I am afraid it will be impossible for you and the speaker to communicate with each other. …We are not concerned at all with private personal salvation but we are concerned, earnestly, seriously, with what the human mind has become, what humanity is facing. We are concerned as human beings, human beings who are not labelled with any nationality. We are concerned at looking at this world and what a human being living in this world has to do, what is his role?
 * Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Flame of Attention (1984), p. 10 ISBN 0-06-064814-7 J.Krishnamurti Online, Serial No. 320.

 * I am the rich man's guru.
 * Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986) ISBN 0880502509.

 * Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
 * Ramakrishna, Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960) ISBN 8171203779 p. 687.

 * In other words, gurus generalize from their own experience. Some gurus are inclined to believe that all humanity should accept their vision: others allege that, when the last trump sounds, their own followers will be saved, whilst the majority of mankind will remain unredeemed. This apparently arrogant assumption is closely connected with certain features of personality displayed by a variety of gurus.
 * Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus (1997) ISBN 0684834952, Introduction, pp. XII–XIII.

 * We must consider the possibility that the conviction expressed by gurus is less absolute than it appears in that their apparent confidence needs boosting by the response of followers. As we shall see, some gurus avoid the stigma of being labelled insane or ever of being confined in a mental hospital because they have acquired a group of disciples who accept them as prophets rather than perceiving them as deluded.
 * Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus (1997) ISBN 0684834952, Introduction, p. XV.

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David Suzuki

David Takayoshi Suzuki (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has been known for his television and radio series, documentaries and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host and narrator of the popular and long-running CBC Television science program The Nature of Things, seen in over 40 countries. He is also well known for criticizing governments for their lack of action to protect the environment.

undated

 * [I]f one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.
 * ibid.

 * More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.
 * source unknown

2005

 * With the growing urgency of climate change, we cannot have it both ways. We cannot shout from the rooftops about the dangers of global warming and then turn around and shout even louder about the "dangers" of windmills.

2006

 * As an atheist, Suzuki declares, he has no illusions about life and death, adding that the individual is insignificant in cosmic terms. Human beings must come to terms with the unbearable reality that they, like all life, will be extinguished.

What he finds most difficult, he confides, "is the idea that this guy looking back at me in the mirror, this person locked into my skull full of memories that make him who he is, this fellow who has known pain, joy, thoughts, having existed for such a brief flash in all eternity, is going to vanish forever at his death. Forever is such a long time, and 70, 80, 90, even 100 years is such a tiny interval in all of time."
 * REVIEW: Suzuki laments conscience role (2006)

2007

 * The planet, hell! What about my nuts?
 * Rick and David Suzuki get rescued, Rick Mercer Report, Feb 20 2007, in reply to Mercer's attempt to get him to jump into a frozen lake "for the planet".

2008

 * We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

2013

 * Oh, I think Canada is full too! Although it’s the second largest country in the world, our useful area has been reduced. Our immigration policy is disgusting: We plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders, and we want to increase our population to support economic growth. It’s crazy!
 * 4 July 2013 translated into English 11 July 2013

2018

 * The question is have we met our match?
 * Fox Tales (NOW STREAMING ON CBC GEM)

 * No matter what lengths politicians, corporate interests and others take to avoid, downplay and obfuscate serious issues around environmental degradation and our economic system’s destructive path, we can’t deny reality. Studies show we must refrain from burning most fossil fuel reserves to avoid catastrophic warming. In little more than a century, the human population has more than quadrupled to seven billion and rising, and our plastic-choked, consumer-driven, car-obsessed cultures have led to resource depletion, species extinction, ocean degradation, climate change and more. It’s past time to open our eyes and shift to a more sensible approach to living on this small, precious planet.
 * We can’t close our eyes to climate change, David Suzuki Foundation(22 February 2018)

 * Many solutions are being employed or developed, but not fast enough to forestall catastrophe. In Canada, we have federal and provincial governments hell-bent on expanding fossil fuel infrastructure and development to reap as much profit as possible from a dying industry and to satisfy the vagaries of short election cycles. The fossil fuel industry continues to receive massive subsidies, including a multi-billion-dollar taxpayer bailout for an American pipeline company, while clean energy receives far less support.
 * We can’t hide from global warming’s consequences, David Suzuki Foundation (19 July 2018)

Interview with National Observer

 * I think we have to stop building cities to serve the car... We have to return to the notion that cities have become human habitats, cities are human created things.

 * I meet a lot of parents that say, “what, what can I do”, you know, and I say, ‘“Stop driving your kids to school!” This is crazy. It'll be healthier for you and healthier for the environment. So it's not just the way we design our cities differently, but our own behavior within the cities.

 * We now live within a globalized economy. So to live the way we are in Vancouver, it means that people in Mexico, people in Africa are having to change the way they're living.

 * the biggest challenge we've got to do right away, stop the hyper consumption that demands that all of these areas serve us.

 * If you look at the states in the United States, or the provinces, that have not really been able to come to grips with the COVID crisis, they are the ones led by people who said, “We got to get the economy going, the economy, the economy”, so that the the health and well being of the community or the the State is not as important as the economy...the ultra rich have just been getting richer and richer. So you know, the economy's not connected to the well being of people or the well being of the planet.

 * We've got to begin to shut down fracking and the the more difficult areas, deep underground and the deep underwater. Shutdown the riskiest areas...Fracking is one of the dumbest ways that you can imagine getting your energy because of the water that you're using, polluting it.

 * We can shut down immediately all subsidizing of the fossil fuel industry. We've got to shut down their ability to advertise, the way we did with tobacco.

 * The most important thing is to say, we've got to be 50% off fossil fuels by 2030. And this is what we have to do every year, we've got to mandate reductions year after year after year, if we're serious about it.

 * I think for the individuals -- make the word disposable an obscene word. If someone says, “Well, I got a disposable cup”, you cover your kid's ear and say, “Don't listen to that man, what a terrible thing to say”. Because the whole idea of disposable, that's a notion brought in by economists.

 * We're changing the chemistry of the atmosphere. And we're doing it in a way that has never happened in nature. We're doing it so quickly. Nature, of course, has had fluctuations. We've gone from warm periods to ice ages. But that's been over 1000s and 1000s of years. We're doing it at an unprecedented rate. The experiment’s started. If we stopped all emissions today it will still take over a century to find equilibration. At the same time that we're adding stuff to the atmosphere at an unprecedented rate, we're cutting down, we're destroying the only real safety that we have, which is the web of living green things all over the planet.

 * I think even a lot of really committed environmentalists, they think, well, if everybody drives an electric car, and we have all LED lights, and and you know, that somehow everything will be fine. No, it's not going to be that simple. Reduction of our fossil fuel use by 2030. Everything is going to change and we can't go on in this hyper consuming way. There going to be massive changes.

 * the underlying root cause of our problem is that we've radically shifted in the way that we live on earth. For most of our existence, 95% of human existence, we were a nomadic hunter gatherer, we had to follow animals and plants do the seasons on their migration, carrying everything we owned. You know damn well you're deeply embedded in nature. And all of your ceremonies and in traditional cultures, their ceremonies are about thanking their creator for Mother Nature's abundance, and making a commitment to act properly in order to ensure that abundance will continue. That's what's needed, a recognition of a deeply embedded.. but we've elevated ourselves above all, we think that we're the top of the heap, and that everything is there for us to use in any way we can imagine. And now with environmentalism, oh, well, we have to be more careful. But we still are making that assumption-- we're at the top of the heap. So all of our solutions are all about serving us. We got to ensure jobs, we got to ensure the economy. We’ve got to ensure politically that… and we're not seeing that the deeper underlying thing is the way that we live on this planet

 * we've become totally narcissistic. And Donald Trump, to me, is the ultimate expression of that kind of narcissism. Me, me, me. Screw anybody else is not about me, me, me.

About

 * There has been no media coverage of D Suzuki's extreme anti-immigration views.What would happen if a prominent conservative said same thing?
 * 10 July 2013 by Jason Kenney

 * Suzuki’s extreme comments reveal how offside he is with Canadians
 * 11 July 2013 by Jason Kenney

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MEChA

MEChA is an acronym for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (Chicano Student's Movement of Aztlan). It is an organization that seeks to promote Chicano unity and empowerment through political action. The acronym of the organization's name is the Chicano word mecha, which is the Chicano pronunciation of the English word, match and therefore symbolic of a fire or spark; mecha in Spanish means fuse or wick.

El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán (1969)

 * We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent.

 * Economic control of our lives and our communities can only come about by driving the exploiter out of our communities, our pueblos, and our lands and by controlling and developing our own talents, sweat, and resources.

 * Economic ties of responsibility must be secured by nationalism and the Chicano defense units.

 * For the very young there will no longer be acts of juvenile delinquency, but revolutionary acts.

 * September 16, on the birthdate of Mexican Independence, a national walk-out by all Chicanos of all colleges and schools to be sustained until the complete revision of the educational system: its policy makers, administration, its curriculum, and its personnel to meet the needs of our community.

The Philosophy of MEChA (1999)

 * Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (M.E.Ch.A.) is a student organization that promotes higher education, cultura [culture], and historia [history]. M.E.Ch.A. was founded on the principles of self-determination for the liberation of our people. We believe that political involvement and education is the avenue for change in our society.

 * Thus, a Chicana/Chicano Nation is a necessity defined as an educational, socio-economic, and empowered Chicana/Chicano community.

 * Our fundamental drive is to organize and challenge Chicana/Chicano estudiantes [students] to maintain self-respect and dignity to overcome historical prejudices and discrimination against the Chicana and Chicano Gente [people]. The historic mission of M.E.Ch.A. involves an educational plan of action that builds an educational ladder for the advancement of our people. Recognizing that the strength of our movement is rooted in our barrios, M.E.Ch.A. pledges itself to reach out to the community and schools, to establish new educational opportunities. We also recognize that our M.E.Ch.A. chapters are much stronger when they are rooted in and accountable to the Chicana/Chicano community. Consequently, We, Mechistas commit ourselves to return to our community and contribute to the development of the Chicana/Chicano Nation.

 * As M.E.Ch.A., we must accept the challenge to combat all forms of oppression, and manifestations as experienced through racism, sexism, and homophobia, both inside and outside of our Movement.

 * Advocating an educational revolution, we recognize that our bullets are our books and our victories are an increase in Chicana/Chicano graduates committed to our people's progress.

Quotes about MeChA

 * I did participate in the Chicano Movement. Actually, I started out with MECHA, a Mexican American youth organization. Also I was involved with different farm worker activities in South Texas and later in Indiana.
 * Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands (1999)

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Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (17 April 1897 – 7 December 1975) was a Pulitzer prize winning American author and playwright.

Quotes

 * We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
 * The Woman of Andros (1930), based on Terence's Andria

 * I hold that we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
 * The Ides of March (1948), sec. VIII, item 977, p. 34

 * Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
 * TIME magazine (12 January 1953)

 * I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
 * New York Journal-American (11 November 1955)

 * Many plays — certainly mine — are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
 * The New York Mirror (13 July 1956)

 * Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
 * TIME magazine (3 February 1958)

 * Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
 * As quoted in "The Notation of the Heart" by Edmund Fuller, in The American Scholar Reader (1960) edited by Hiram Hayden and Betsy Saunders

 * Love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it gives birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed through a long servitude, through its own self-hatred, through mockery, through great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties.
 * As quoted in "The Notation of the Heart" by Edmund Fuller, in The American Scholar Reader (1960) edited by Hiram Hayden and Betsy Saunders

 * I am not interested in the ephemeral — such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.
 * The New York Times (6 November 1961)

 * The most valuable thing I inherited was a temperament that does not revolt against Necessity and that is constantly renewed in Hope.
 * quoted in "About the Author" following The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Washington Square Press edition, 29th printing, 1963)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

 * Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes!) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy.

 * Soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

 * Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

 * Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

Our Town (1938)

 * People are meant to go through life two by two. 'Tain't natural to be lonesome.
 * "Mrs. Gibbs"

 * A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.
 * "Mr. Webb"

 * Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
 * "Stage Manager"

 * That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those... of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know — that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.
 * "Simon Stimson"

 * I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me back — up the hill — to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by Grover's Corners...Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking...and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. ...Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? — Every, every minute? ...I'm ready to go back...I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people.
 * "Emily Webb"

The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)

 * My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate — that's my philosophy.
 * Sabina, Act One

 * I hate this play and every word in it.
 * Sabina

 * I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for — whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
 * Antrobus, Act 3

The Matchmaker (1954)

 * Later adapted into the musical Hello, Dolly

 * Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
 * Vandergelder, in Act 1

 * Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners — your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards — who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
 * Malachi, in Act 3

 * Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.
 * Malachi, in Act 3

 * The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home." And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
 * Barnaby, in Act 4

 * Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
 * Dolly Levi, in Act 4

 * The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous...and the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight.

 * Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Writers at Work interview (1958)

 * Interview for Writers at Work, First series, edited by Malcolm Cowley

 * The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

 * I think myself as a fabulist, not a critic. I realize that every writer is necessarily a critic — that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. But, as I have just suggested, I believe that the practice of writing consists in more and more relegating all that schematic operation to the subconscious. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg — nine-tenths of him is underwater.

 * The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

 * Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

 * On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being; the words are rising to their lips in immediate spontaneity … The theater is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are."

 * Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

 * A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

 * The theatre is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are." Yet most dramatists employ it to say: "This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action."

 * I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

 * One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.

The Eighth Day (1967)

 * It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

 * Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

 * Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

 * A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.

 * We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

 * Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

 * The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

 * When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery … He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift…. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Theophilus North (1973)

 * Imagination draws on memory. Memory and imagination combined can stage a Servants' Ball or even write a book, if that's what they want to do.

Quotes About

 * My idea of a dream man was Thornton Wilder
 * Lillian Gish

 * (What’s the best book you’ve ever received as a gift?) When I was in college I witnessed a tragic death, and my father sent me Thornton Wilder’s “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” — a book about a Franciscan friar in Peru who sees a rope bridge collapse, killing five people, and then tries to learn about their lives. Wilder was so great at making sense of life and death, and that book healed me. It’s a shame that we only tend to remember Wilder for the most sentimental parts of his most sentimental play.
 * Rebecca Makkai Interview (2023)

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All courses of action are risky...
I was checking to see if the following quote was genuine. It doesn't appear in Chapter III of The Prince; the revision was made on 3 March 2013 by an unregistered user (96.245.102.90) who only made this one contribution to Wikiquote; it therefore seems to be a false attribution. I suggest deleting.

 * All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

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Talk:Steven Pinker

I´m Gaston Haro and i´m looking for someone who is interested in Steven´s work. Thanks.

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Why's the emphasis been added to the quote about differences in intelligence from the Blank Slate?Mbc3001 00:25, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

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Please make it clear under which licence your uploading images are released and whose photos they are. Without licence information we should remove those images from our database. Thanks. --Aphaia 08:16, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Senthil

Senthil (born 23 March 1951) is a comedic actor from Tamil Nadu, India.

Quotes

 * Comedy is like a sweet. On auspicious occasions and during celebrations sweets are always offered. We offer a unique flavour.

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Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977), born Leopold Anthony Stokowski in London, also known as Leopold Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz Stokowski, was a famous orchestral conductor, and founder of the New York City Symphony Orchestra. He arranged the music for Disney’s Fantasia (1940), making a brief appearance in the film.

Quotes

 * I understand you are doing "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." I would love to do that for you. I will do it for nothing.
 * During a chance meeting in a restaurant with Walt Disney. Stokowski's influence expanded the project and the idea eventually evolved into the landmark animation feature film Fantasia (1940), for which Stokowski had suggested the title, as one which indicates "a musical composition without a strict form"; quoted in Serious Business: The Art and Commerce of Animation in America from Betty Boop to Toy Story (2000) by Stefan Kanfer
 * Unsourced variant: I would like to conduct that for you.

 * I believe that music can be an inspirational force in all our lives — that its eloquence and the depth of its meaning are all-important, and that all personal considerations concerning musicians and the public are relatively unimportant — that music come from the heart and returns to the heart — that music is spontaneous, impulsive expression — that its range is without limit — that music is forever growing — that music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man. Music can be all things to all men. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction. … It is as if the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands. We are speaking here of the most inspired music.
 * Music For All Of Us (1943); also quoted as "...Music can be all things to all persons... "

 * As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.
 * As quoted in The New York Times (18 April 1967)

 * A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
 * Addressing an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times (11 May 1967); often this is quoted without the humorous final sentence.

 * It is my profound wish that this entire collection shall be devoted to the advancement of fine music for the continued enjoyment of music enthusiasts throughout the United States, be they students of the arts, performing artists, or members of that vast audience of music lovers among the American public.
 * From his will, in which he provided for his conducting scores, manuscript orchestral transcriptions, and recordings to archived and accessible to the public. The Stokowski Archives are now housed in the University of Pennsylvania Library.

 * I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing. CBS TV 1976

 * On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet— I am a martinetissimo.
 * Statement recalled in obituaries (13 September 1977), as quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (1988) compiled by James B. Simpson

Quotes about Stokowski

 * I would like to have been present, if I could have my choice of all moments in music history, when Stokowski suddenly became conscious of his beautiful hands. That must have been a moment. Like stout Cortez [sic] on a peak in Darien (I know it was Balboa) he saw before him a limitless expanse, a whole uncharted sea that might be subjected to his influence, free from the encumbrance of a baton.
 * Oscar Levant, in "Music in Aspic," Harper's Magazine (October 1939), an abbreviated chapter from Levant's soon-to-be-published A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); as quoted in "Lightning Wit Plays On American Musical Scene; Oscar Levant Answers Unspoken Request for 'Information, Please' With Uncensored Comments on Exalted Persons" by Ray C. B. Brown, in The Washington Post (January 14, 1940), p. E4

 * His ambition to shine and his lack of a sound musical culture have led him often into distorted interpretations and into lapses of musical taste that have enraged musicians on three continents. ... His whole performance is a violation of musical tradition and taste the more surprising in that he has always managed to remain high in his profession notwithstanding.
 * Virgil Thomson, quoted in MUSIC VIEW, New York Times (Sept. 25, 1977)

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Talk:Avril Lavigne

Despite 66.153.241.243's assertion that its "quite unlikely that Avril Lavigne ever quoted Confucious", I will forever associate that quote with her. I imagine her at an interview looking particularly vacant before being asked some question about governments or war. Thinking for a moment, she replies "Was it not Confucious who said, 'He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it'?", stunning the interviewer and audience alike. Think outside the box 14:51, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

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I blanked the unsourced quotes. The sourced quote section needs review as well but I'll leave those for now. FloNight♥♥♥ 15:11, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (January 12 1746 – February 17 1827) was a Swiss educational reformer.

Quotes

 * Lead your child by the hand to the great scenes of nature; teach him on the mountain and in the valley. There he will listen better to your teaching; the liberty will give him greater force to surmount difficulties. But in these hours of liberty it should be nature that teaches rather than you. Do not allow yourself to prevail for the pleasure of success in your teaching; or to desire in the least to proceed when nature diverts him; do not take away in the least the pleasure which she offers him. Let him completely realize that it is nature that teaches, and that you, with your art, do nothing more than walk quietly at her side.  When he hears a bird warble or an insect hum on a leaf, then cease your talk; the bird and the insect are teaching; your business is then to be silent.
 * Diary entry (1774-02-15)

 * The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.
 * Evening Hour of a Hermit (1780)

 * I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.
 * How Gertrude Teaches Her Children (1801), ed. Ebenezer Cooke, trans. Lucy E. Holland and Frances C. Turner (Syracuse, NY, 1894), letter VII, p. 97

 * The ultimate end of education is not a perfection in the accomplishments of the school, but fitness for life; not the acquirement of habits of blind obedience, and of prescribed diligence, but a preparation for independent action. We must bear in mind that whatever class of society a pupil may belong to, whatever calling he may be intended for, there are certain faculties in human nature common to all, which constitute the stock of the fundamental energies of man. We have no right to withhold from any one the opportunities for developing all their faculties. It may be judicious to treat some of them with marked attention, and to give up the idea of bringing others to high perfection.  The diversity of talent and inclination, of plans and pursuits, is a sufficient proof of the necessity for such a distinction.  But I repeat that we have no right to shut out the child from the development of those faculties also, which we may not for the present conceive to be very essential for his future calling or station in life.
 * Letters on Infants' Education (1819)

 * Each of our moral, mental, and bodily powers must have its development based upon its own nature, and not based upon artificial and outside influences. Faith must be developed by exercises in believing and cannot be developed from the knowledge and understanding, only, of what is to be believed; thought must grow from thinking, for it cannot come simply from the knowledge and understanding of what is to be thought, or the laws of thought; love must be developed by loving, for it does not arise merely from a knowledge and understanding of what love is and of what ought to be loved; art, also, can only be cultivated through doing artistic work and acquiring skill, for unending discussion of art and skill will not develop them. Such a return to the true method of Nature in the method of the development of our powers necessitates the subordination of education to the knowledge of the various laws which govern those powers.
 * Address to his household, Yverdon, Switzerland, on his seventy-second birthday (1818-01-12)

 * Das Leben bildet.
 * It is life itself that educates.
 * Schwanengesang [Swan Song] (1826)

title: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi