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Grendel

Grendel is a 1971 novel by John Gardner. It retells Beowulf from Grendel's point of view.

Chapter One

 * And so begins the twelfth year of my idiotic war. The pain of it! The stupidity!

 * (Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.)

Chapter Two

 * "I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. All the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly—as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back."
 * "That night, for the first time, I saw men."

Chapter Three

 * What was he? The man had changed the world, had torn up the past by its thick, gnarled roots and had transmuted it, and they, who knew the truth, remembered it his way--and so did me

Chapter Four

 * "He reshapes the world," I whispered, belligerent. "So his name implies. He stares strange-eyed at the mindless world and turns dry sticks to gold."

 * "The Shaper may yet improve men's minds, bring peace to the miserable Danes." But they were doomed, I knew, and I was glad. No denying it. Let them wander the fogroads of Hell.

Chapter Five

 * He closed his eyes, still smiling. "Pick an apocalypse, any apocalypse. A sea of black oil and dead things. No wind. No light. Nothing stirring, not even an ant, a spider. A silent universe. Such is the end of the flicker of time, the brief hot fuse of events and ideas set off, accidentally, and snuffed out, accidentally, by man. Not a real ending of course, nor even a beginning. Mere ripple in Time's stream."

 * “Nevertheless, something will come of all this,” I said. “Nothing,” he said. “A brief pulsation in the black hole of eternity. My advice to you—” “Wait and see,” I said. He shook his head. “My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.”

 * All pigs eat cheese. Old Snaggle is a pig. If Snaggle is sick and refuses to eat, try cheese.

 * “You improve them, my boy! Can’t you see that yourself? You stimulate them! You make them think and scheme. You drive them to poetry, science, religion, all that makes them what they are for as long as they last. You are, so to speak, the brute existent by which they learn to define themselves. The exile, captivity, death they shirk from—the blunt facts of their mortality, their abandonment—that’s what you make them recognize, embrace! You are mankind, or man’s condition: inseparable as the mountain-climber and the mountain.”

 * "Personally," he said, "my great ambition is to count all this," --he waved vaguely at the treasure around him--"and possibly sort it into piles."

 * "Importance is derived from the immanence of infinitude in the finite."

Chapter Six

 * "I've never seen a live hero before. I thought they were only in poetry. Ah, ah, it must be a terrible burden, though, being a hero--glory reaper, harvester of monsters! Everybody always watching you, weighing you, seeing if you're still heroic. You know how it is--he he! Sooner or later the harvest virgin will make her mistake in the haystack." I laughed.

 * "Hey!" he yelled. A forgivable lapse.

 * "Such is life," I said, and mocked a sigh. "Such is dignity."

Chapter Seven

 * Pity poor Hrothgar, Grendel's foe! Pity poor Grendel, O,O,O!

 * Grendel is crazy, O,O,O! Thinks old Hrothgar Makes it snow!

 * Pity poor Grengar, Hrothdel's foe! Down goes the whirlpool: Eek! No, no!

 * I will count my numberless blessings one by one. I. My teeth are sound. I. The roof of my cave is sound. I. I have not committed the ultimate act of nihilism: I have not killed the queen. I. Yet.

Chapter Eight

 * (O hear me, rocks and trees, loud waterfalls! You imagine I tell you these thing just to hear myself speak? A little respect there, brothers and sisters!
 * (Thus poor Grendel,
 * anger's child,
 * red eyes hidden in the dark of verbs,
 * brachiating with a hoot from rhyme to rhyme.)

 * "All systems are evil. All governments are evil. Not just a trifle evil. Monstrously evil."

 * "If you want me to help you destroy a government, I'm here to serve. But as for Universal Justice--" He laughed.

Chapter Nine

 * The trees are dead. The days are an arrow in a dead man's chest.

 * Something is coming, strange as spring. I am afraid.

 * "It is I," I say. "The Destroyer."

Chapter Ten

 * Tedium is the worst pain.

 * I am not the only monster on these moors. I met an old woman as wild as the wind Striding in white out of midnight's den. Her cloak was in rags, and her flesh, it was lean, And her eyes, her murdered eyes...

 * Nihil ex nihilo, I always say.

Chapter Eleven

 * I am mad with joy.--At least I think it's joy.

 * O happy Grendel! Fifteen glorious heroes, proud in their battle dress, fat as cows!

 * His voice, though powerful, was mild. Voice of a dead thing, calm as dry sticks and ice when the wind blows over them. He had a strange face that, little by litte, grew unsettling to me: it was a face, or so it seemed for an instant, from a dream I had almost forgotten. The eyes slanted downward, never blinking, unfeeling as a snake's. He had no more beard than a fish. He smiled as he spoke, but it was as if the gentle voice, the childlike yet faintly ironic smile were holding something back, some magician-power that could blast stone cliffs to ashes as lighting blasts trees.

 * I understood at last the look in his eyes. He was insane.

 * The Geats build up the fire, prepare to sleep. And now, silence. Darkness. It is time.

Chapter Twelve

 * Grendel, Grendel! You make the world by whispers, second by second. Are you blind to that? Whether you make it a grave or garden of roses is not the point. Feel the wall: is it not hard? He smashes me against it. Hard, yes! Observe the hardness, write it down in careful runes. Now, sing of walls! Sing!

 * "I sing of walls," I howl. "Hooray for the hardness of walls!"

 * Terrible, he whispers. Terrible. He laughs and lets out fire.

 * “As you see it it is, while the seeing lasts. Time as coffin; dark nightmare history. But where the water was rigid, there will be fish, and men will survive on their flesh until spring. It is coming, my brother. Believe it or not. Though you murder the world, transmogrify life into I and it, strong searching roots will crack your cave and the rains will cleanse it. The world will burn green- sperm build again. By this I kill you.”

 * "Poor Grendel's had an accident," I whisper. ''"So may you all."

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User:Mrmaroon25~enwikiquote

Age: 14

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Gender: Male

Favorite Musical Groups: The Beatles, Queen, Iron Maiden, Maroon 5, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, Coldplay

Favorite Movies: Amadeus, Dead Poets Society, Forrest Gump, Gladiator, Schindler's List, The Shawshank Redemption, V for Vendetta

Favorite TV Shows: House, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Firefly, All in the Family, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show

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Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 21, 2007

Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. ~ Charles Lindbergh

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Georgia Rule

Georgia Rule is a 2007 comedy-drama film about a rebellious teenager sent to live with her strict grandmother.
 * Directed by Garry Marshall. Written by Mark Andrus.

In this family, attitude doesn't skip a generation.taglines

Georgia

 * Georgia Rule.
 * For a smart girl, you're good at stupid.
 * Life is a whole less surprising when its all planed out.

Harlan

 * She gave me oral sex… But we didn't kiss!

Rachel
Okay, see, I tried to be nice, but let me put this a different way because you're not really getting it right now. If you call me a name, if you throw something at me- ever again!- if I see you talking to Harlan, yelling at Harlan, having anything AT ALL to do with Harlan, I will find all of your boyfriends and I will fuck them stupid. Okay? Get it? Thanks guys. [as she's walking away] Thanks for your time. Have a good summer!

Dialogue

 * Simon: Hey.
 * Rachel: Is for horses, better for cows, Pigs don't eat it cause they don't know how. What's your name?
 * Simon: Simon.
 * Rachel: Hmm.
 * Simon: I wasn't really going anywhere.
 * Rachel: That's where I'm going.
 * Simon: Where?
 * Rachel: Anywhere.
 * Simon: Well, I was going there alone.
 * Rachel: Well, now you're not. Consider yourself lucky.
 * Simon: I would if you weren't here.
 * Rachel: Hmm. Consider yourself stuck.

 * Simon: (starts car) I don't like to talk.
 * Rachel: Perfect. I don't like to listen

 * Simon: Would you put your legs back in my car?
 * Rachel: Oh? Changing the rules?
 * Simon: No, no, There were no rules- other than no parts of your body outside my car.
 * Rachel: Well, then can I talk to you?
 * Simon: Put your legs down.
 * Rachel: You didn't say Simon Says- Simon.
 * Simon: I'm only going as far as Hull.
 * Rachel: Hull, Idaho? That's where I'm staying.
 * Simon: My luck. Now do you need to call someone or are you a surprise?
 * Rachel: I would but My mother cut my phone service. She's a gem. [throws her cell phone out of the car]

 * Simon: Well, this is home.
 * Rachel: Just drop me in town. Nice to know you, Simon.
 * Simon: You don't know me kid.
 * Rachel: Oh, I know you.
 * Simon: You do?
 * Rachel: I had my dress hiked, and my legs up, and you didn't look once. Not even for a second.
 * Simon: So, now you know me.
 * Rachel: No marriage ring. What are you, thirty, forty? You're gay.
 * Simon: Alright get out.
 * Rachel: I already asked you to let me out.
 * Simon: Now I'm tellin' ya.
 * Rachel: What are you talking about? You can't tell me what I've already asked.
 * Simon: Get out, just get out.
 * Rachel: (gets out of the car) I want my panties when you're done with them.

 * Lilly: Come on mother there was a time when you would pull me out by my hair for drinking.
 * Georgia: I'm to old for that and so is your hair.
 * Lilly: (to self.) [laughs] That was good.

Taglines

 * In this family, attitude doesn't skip a generation.
 * Some families buckle under pressure...others bloom.
 * Sometimes you have to lose your way to find your family.

Cast

 * Jane Fonda - Georgia
 * Lindsay Lohan - Rachel
 * Felicity Huffman - Lilly
 * Dermot Mulroney - Simon
 * Garrett Hedlund - Harlan
 * Cary Elwes - Arnold

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Barham Salih

Barham Ahmad Salih (born 12 July 1960) is a Kurdish Iraqi politician who has been served as the president of Iraq from October 2018 to October 2022.

Quotes

 * Leave Saddam in power? So that he would be free to continue killing, free to invade his neighbors, so that he would be free to — I am sorry — develop nuclear weapons? No.
 * As quoted in "Regrets Only?" (7 October 2007), by Dexter Filkins, The New York Times Magazine

2000s

 * Al-Qaeda is a virus and it is spreading. If we fail to stop it, we will pay a very heavy price.
 * "Iraq: The Regional Security Dimension" (May 2007), World Economic Forum

2010s

 * I'm realistic, but at the same time, I'm optimistic. I believe we can overcome the problems. I do not shrink from the level of interest and political economy of the violence that has been caused by successive crises over the past ten years. These interests have prevented the progress of Iraq and the welfare of the citizens, but I am optimistic to the children of the country that they will understand the depth of the problems.
 * As quoted in "Saleh Saleh: We are looking at the Arab countries to end the crisis" (30 August 2014), Sharqparsi

 * Fixing Iraq would go a long way towards fixing much of the Middle East.
 * "A reformed Iraq would provide a template for the Middle East" (18 May 2017), Financial Times

 * Is the Iraqi state succeeding? I think there are some prospects for this country to be moving in the right direction. But the legacies of the past, the problems are really, really monumental... We need to deliver. Otherwise we will not be able to justify what we do in the eyes of our public. And public opinion does matter in Iraq. People speak their minds. People are engaged, are interested... Life is coming back... Every time I go out of the presidential palace in Baghdad — and I do try to go out as often as I can — I do see normalcy coming back, more and more. I do think there is a window of opportunity — it should be cherished. We’ve not had it like this for a long, long time... It’s precious, but precarious.
 * As quoted in "Iraq’s president explains why the U.S. must reengage with Baghdad" (20 March 2019), by Christian Caryl, The Washington Post

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James Garner

James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American film and television actor and producer.

Tavis Smiley interview (2004)
Tavis Smiley, Late Night on PBS - 2004-06-14, Interview: with Tavis Smiley, PBS (June 14, 2004).

 * Anyway, you learn a healthy respect for war, and I'm not happy with what's going on today. Uh, you know, our sterling President — um, I shouldn't get into this. Everybody's gonna kill me, but I'm not happy with him. I — I — if he had ever been in a war, he wouldn't have been so happy...so eager to send other people into war.
 * On George Bush and the Iraq War.

 * Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.
 * Asked why he gets up and goes to work every day.

Tavis Smiley: Now you wish you had. Garner: No, no, no. Tavis Smiley: Hey, Arnold [Schwarzenegger] won. Garner: No. I think I could have won easy, but I don't think that they ought to have somebody like me or Schwarzenegger as Governor. It's no way to run a state.
 * Garner: Before we get off the electoral process, they wanted me to run for Governor [of California] about 8 years ago — ahem — and I didn't want to do it. I wasn't gonna get in with that--

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User:Lwalt

Hello everyone! Welcome to my user page. My interests are wide and varied, so visit my page at English Wikipedia to find out more about me and my current interests.  → Lwalt  ♦  talk  My local time: [ ]    :  EDT  UTC

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User talk:Viru~enwikiquote

the very important quotation regarding solving any type of problem is : FIRST DIVIDE, THEN RULE. IN FACT, now-a-days, life is running very fast so regarding I've made some quotations: 1) life is nothing but everything which you can imagine. 2) life is nothing but Zero.How? I ask: why not? 3) life is as uncertain as complex numbers in Maths. 4) As we look, So is our life. 5) the main problem of life is that life consists of no-problem. 6) if you will waste life, life will also waste you. 7) human life is the most wanted form of life. most of the people don't know how to deal with it. 8) life is nothing but an application of love. 9) life is the only concept which is most complex and most simple both. 10) life revolves around the circle of deeds.

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Ali Younesi

Hojatoleslam Ali Younesi was the director of the Ministry of Intelligence of Iran and a member of the Supreme National Security Council during the presidency of Mohammad Khatami (2003–2005) in Iran.

Quotes

 * Today, the security of Muslim countries in the region is being threatened by a blind terrorism scourge, Israel and America.
 * DR. STRANGELOVE IN IRAN 23 November 2004.

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Moses Hess

Moses (Moshe) Hess (January or June 21, 1812 – April 6, 1875) was a Jewish French philosopher and socialist.

Hess' Diary

 * In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw.
 * Hess' Diary, September 16, 1836

 * I was supposed to devote myself only to the Talmud. But the Talmud utterly repelled me, thought I was still a pious Jew-boy [Judenkind]. I wanted to satisfy my craving to be active, to do something: this craving looked for a sphere for itself because none was offered it. I did not want to be a good-for-nothing - and therefore I became a writer.
 * Hess' Diary

 * My main problem was, naturally, religion: from it I moved later on to the principles of ethics. First to be examined was my positive religion [ie. Judaism]. It collapsed. So I wanted to base myself on naturaly religion: but my agony was so great, that this [foundation] also collapsed before my eyes. Nothing, nothing remained. I was the most miserable person in the world. I became an atheist.
 * Hess' Diary p. 40

 * A writer? What education did I receive? None. Where did I study? Nowhere. What did I study? It does not matter. I nonetheless became a writer immediately, because I wrote more than I have ever read; hence I thought more than I had food for thought.
 * Hess' Diary
 * The vocation of man, as that of any other creature, is to be active in all his being. But man cannot act as an individual. The essence of his life activity is cooperation with other individuals of his species. Outside this cooperation, outside of society, man does not achieve any specific human activity. But so long as this co-operation is arbitrarily ruled by accidentality, so long as it is not organized, man remains limited and constricted in his life-activity....
 * Bestimmung des Menschen, p. 275

 * The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.
 * Hess to Herzen, March 1850, Briefwechsel p. 253

Die europäische Triarchie (The European Triarchy)

 * He who wishes to study the barometric level of spiritual freedom must examine the relationship of the state to its Jewish subjects.
 * Translation brought in Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917 by Jonathan Frankel

 * We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe.
 * Ibid

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User talk:Tsimmons~enwikiquote

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikiquote. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Wikiquote exists for the collecting of notable quotations of famous people and famous works. For a quick overview of what Wikiquote is, read Wikiquote, and also What Wikiquote is not for a list of common activities that Wikiquote does not support. When people are not interested in responsibly contributing to the development of the project incidents of their deliberate vandalism can result in their usernames or IP addresses being blocked from editing. Thank you.--Aphaia 14:20, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

It is not nonsense, but in the process of editing.

please try to keep your quote within a reasonable length

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Election related quotes
Suggestion: Not using any quote that has anything to do with the elections as QOTD (no matter who said it) until February. Let's try to keep everything as neutral as possible.

Ha! Since when does Wikiquote ever bother with neutrality? Today's (18th December 2022 featured quote is pro-choice and that's not the first time it's happened. It has never featured a pro-life quote. --2001:BB6:7A76:F858:28F8:3EEE:A8A8:B94B 15:30, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Concerning the quote for today....
It is true that the cause of envy is everything good but the result of envy is everything bad. When people strive to impress others, sometimes motivated by envy, they soon find out that nobody really cares.... Leteh (talk) 22:17, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hey Leteh. Welcome to Wikiquote! I can't say I'm wise enough to know whether it is true for certain, but this is the kind of thinking that a good quote inspires, and I'm glad it seems to have inspired you.  G M G  talk  22:36, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

I don't think if its true. Jacob Opwaka (talk) 08:20, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Attention!
Please pay attention to Template:Ping and its Discussion.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 21:03, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

 * Text/Mo Ran's time is coming late, only waiting for the cold moon to lean against the window, desk, lightly express a touch of leisure, on the note, waiting, night comes, just like waiting for a woman in destiny. Youth is fading, and the tenderness of immortality is still hidden in the context of the years. I am still waiting, waiting for the woman who leans on time. Whose piano sound messed up the rice paper, and my thoughts were stained with ink for years. The clever melody is like a lotus in a sketch. Rferf (talk) 06:15, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * This is a great speech... Taslhine (talk) 21:26, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Quote of the Day 2020-05-08 (Friedrich Hayek)
The quote by Friedrich Hayek can't be found on his Wikiquote page: Friedrich Hayek --ElfQrin (talk) 10:37, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

I think it's time for us to stop trolling & looking down on SA Artists and start supporting our brothers and sisters coz they'll take our music far if we support em. T-cloud DaRapghost S.A (talk) 22:00, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Today's QOTD is broken!
So in the main page today (13 May 2020), the QOTD is a bit broken in terms of text arrangement (blame for this one hehe). May I suggest deleting the image on the left (or make both of them go to the right, or be smaller) and that'll probably fix it, thankeez! dibbydib  ⌐■_■ ( barate me )  04:27, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Quote of the Day 2020-06-03 (image of Donald Trump and quote from the Gospel)
Today's quote with the associated image is wrong on many levels. I don't think it's Wikipedia / Wikiquote's mission to judge people's intentions, and offer personal interpretations of events and news. It's no NPOV (Neutral Point Of View, according to Wikipedia guidelines) at the very least. --ElfQrin (talk) 10:07, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
 * From experience, Kalki makes the QOTD's from each quote and is likely the one who added the provided image, so if you want it to get sorted out, that's who you've got to ask. In my opinion, it is pretty POV to add that image alongside the quote but I won't get myself involved. dibbydib ⌐■_■ ( barate me ) 10:21, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
 * This is wikiquote and not wikipedia (so wikipedia guidelines should not be quoted here). Sometimes the quotes are a bit provocative, but this is still better than boring quotes (just IMO). --დამოკიდებულება (talk) 10:59, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

 * Not very subtle, but it's one way to see whether anybody's actually reading the main page, I suppose. Emufarmers (talk) 00:38, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I think that this should be discussed in Wikiquote talk:Quote of the day and/or Wikiquote talk:Image use policy Rupert Loup 01:56, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

On today's QOTD
Today's (Sep. 21) quote seems a bit biased, forgive me if my memory is incorrect, but don't we have a policy against that?
 * There is no rule against quotes that express a point of view. If nobody actually had anything to say, there wouldn't be anything worth quoting. ~ Ningauble (talk) 19:31, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, the editor who selects the QOTD, User:Kalki, is a self-admitted Hillary voter who consistently chooses POV-pushing anti-Trump quotes, which are not even widely quoted (case in point: this particular anti-Trump quote barely returns 2 pages of Google results!), and we can confidently predict that he will continue to use the QOTD as an anti-Trump propaganda tool ahead of the election. Even though this may not be against any written policy, I would propose we should altogether avoid having anti-Trump (or anti-Biden) quotes as the QOTD at least until after the election, otherwise we give the very improper (but currently plausible) impression that Wikiquote takes sides politically (when in fact it is Kalki, the POV-pushing editor, who is taking sides). Aren't there any more worthy (and less parochial) quotes to be displayed on the front page that actually stood the test of time? ~ DanielTom (talk) 20:30, 21 September 2020 (UTC) last edit: 22:40, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Wait is this about the RBG quote ("My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.")? That was a very timely and well-reported quote. I see nothing wrong with it as the QOTD. ~ UDScott (talk) 21:13, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * No, it's about the Stephen King quote ("What fascinates me — mesmerizes me — isn't so much Trump himself as the American government he's crafted...") at Quote of the day/September 21, 2020. It was not as widely reported. ~ Ningauble (talk) 21:42, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

This page became more and more a personal page to spread the political views of the QOTD editor. --ElfQrin (talk) 12:58, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Oct 6 QOTD
Is "Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life." really an appropriate quote to put on the front page? Is that not something incredibly dangerous to encourage? Nixinova (talk) 02:47, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

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What is the blocked message for Wikiquote?

QotD Jan 10 2021
How many times do people need to complain about partisan contemporary US politics being pushed on QOTD? Let's just have a rule that anything political must be 15+ years old, etc. Otherwise you'll soon see wars over whose candidates get more quotespace - and it looks like all of the complaints here are alleging the same bias... HaltlosePersonalityDisorder (talk) 00:10, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not for old quotes only, but Wikiquote home page can't be QOTD editor's personal home page. --ElfQrin (talk) 12:36, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Original quote
My son Remington Fuller came up with a quote that everyone should live by. "Live simply, so that others may simply live." RTF31406 (talk) 03:59, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

 * This particular quote goes at least as far back as 1972, and is attributed to Elizabeth Seton by Hubert Ingram Bermont in How to Compete Successfully in Your Own Field (1979), p. 141. ~ DanielTom (talk) 07:12, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Suggesting quotes when date of birth is unknown
How can I suggest quotes for the quote of the day when date of birth/death is unknown? -- ო ~ #SheSaid 11:47, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
 * y associated date to a person's birth or death, this can be stated with the suggestion, preferably with some other date that is historically associated with the person, or plausibly with the quote, but not necessarily so. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:15, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. There are many people (or even quotes from anonymous works) for which no date can be associated. For how many people from Ancient Greece do we know the exact date of birth? With other cultures, even in medieval or modern times, it is even worse. As another example, a quote about Shiva could be placed on the day of Shivaratri, but the Shivaratri festival falls in the western calender on a different day each year.

With the current system, a lot of very good quotes cannot be suggested.

I propose the creation of two additional pages, one page to suggest quotes for which no date can be associated with, and one page for quotes which can be associated with a date, but it varies from year to year in the Western calendar. -- ო ~ #SheSaid 11:42, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

 * To clarify, quotes from these pages could be used on days where there too few quote suggestions, March 30 only has one or two quote suggestions. -- ო ~ #SheSaid 11:31, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Missing picture on the QOTD
Today's QOTD seems to be missing a picture since it was deleted on Commons. Can a replacement be added? Pinging Kalki as the page's creator. Aranya (talk) 16:29, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
 * The missing image has now been replaced. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:29, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Only one picture? Yes. We seem to have forgotten the decision, after much discussion, that there should be only one, a consensus reached and agreed to in September 2015, and observed (mostly) until it was abandoned without discussion late last year. (Also abandoned, as seen in today's page, is the "official" policy about specific relevance, for what it's worth.) ~ Ningauble (talk) 20:48, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

About high schools
I think that we must talk about children's being bullied, where I am bullying is a very big problem. Next year I will start grade 8.and I may also be bulled .so I think we can tell them how it feels to be bullied or to bully others. And we must tell them about the about being pregnant at a young age and about the life that comes after being pregnant at a young age Khanyisile sithole (talk) 11:12, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

new proverbs
How can new proverbs, recently published by ordinary people, be added to this database? I have a file of 300 beautiful proverbs, and they are translated into seven languages, and I have been given permission to publish them, please. ששון (talk) 22:20, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Hope helps you through the dark moments of our life.

 * Original works are not within our scope. You are better to publish them on other venues. Thank you for your considerations. --Aphaia (talk) 06:46, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

This could be a very nice development if attention is given Denisseo1234 (talk) 16:09, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Hausa Wikiquote
I want to open Wikiquote in my Language (Hausa) which exist on wikipedia, as there are alot of interesting quotes and proverbs in my native tongue. How can I go about it Uncle Bash007 (talk) 18:47, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

 * Hi, you can start working on the project

here and propose the project at meta:Requests for new languages. It's a long process and will require collaboration from other Hausa speakers. Hope this helps, Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 13:34, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

 * Hi Thanks for the response and ofcourse it does. I really appreciate Uncle Bash007 (talk) 13:49, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

 * Hi, no problem, hope you can start the project at some point. Rubbish computer (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 22:55, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, Sure, I will let you know as soon S possible. Thank uUncle Bash007 (talk) 10:40, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Typo in the "New pages" image caption
Greetings and felicitations. On the homepage, in "New in Wikiquote:Xiomara Castro" there should be a space after the colon. —DocWatson42 (talk) 09:22, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Teahouse
Why isn’t there a Teahouse like Wikipedia? – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 14:02, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Why are you repeating this posting here? Why not continue the discussion you started here? ~ UDScott (talk) 14:04, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

History
How did apartheid affect people's lives Remothabetse (talk) 21:32, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Movie history
Matt Dillon in 1978. In the movie. Over the edge. Said The Only Thing in Texas Is Steers And Queers. Goanfuself1 (talk) 22:35, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Quote
Practice doesn't make your work perfect, But helps you to do better progress Yeojjamora (talk) 08:01, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

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Philo

Philo (25 BCE – 50 CE), known also as Philo of Alexandria and as Philo Judeaus, was a Hellenized Jewish philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt. The few biographical details concerning him are found in his own works, especially in Legatio ad Gaium, ("embassy to Gaius") and in Flavius Josephus (Antiquities xviii.8, § 1; comp. ib. xix.5, § 1; xx.5, § 2).

Quotes

 * Are you making war upon us, because you anticipate that we will not endure such indignity, but that we will fight on behalf of our laws, and die in defence of our national customs? For you cannot possibly have been ignorant of what was likely to result from your attempt to introduce these innovations respecting our temple.
 * Embassy to Gaius, Chapter 28-31, Yonge's translation.

 * A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.
 * Special Laws, 1st century.

 * It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; [...] Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time.
 * Allegories of the Sacred Laws (Legum allegoriae), Book I, §2; tr. C. D. Yonge, The works of Philo Judaeus (1854), Vol. 1, pp. 52–53.

On the Special Laws
translated by F. Colson (1939)

 * Moses … denied to the members of the sacred commonwealth unrestricted liberty to use and partake of the other kinds of food. All the animals of land, sea or air whose flesh is the finest and fattest, thus titillating and exciting the malignant foe pleasure, he sternly forbade them to eat, knowing that they set a trap for the most slavish of the senses, the taste, and produce gluttony, an evil very dangerous both to soul and body.
 * 69.

 * The holy Moses … discarded passion in general and detesting it, as most vile in itself and in its effects, denounced especially desire as a battery of destruction to the soul, which must be done away with or brought into obedience to the governance of reason, and then all things will be permeated through and through with peace and good order, those perfect forms of the good which bring the full perfection of happy living.
 * 75-77.

 * Moses … takes one form of desire, that one whose field of activity is the belly, and admonishes and disciplines it as the first step, holding that the other forms will cease to run riot as before and will be restrained by having learnt that their senior and as it were the leader of their company is obedient to the laws of temperance.
 * 77.

 * The road that leads to pleasure is downhill and very easy, with the result that one does not walk but is dragged along; the other which leads to self-control is uphill, toilsome no doubt but profitable exceedingly. The one carries us away, forced lower and lower as it drives us down its steep incline, till it flings us off on to the level ground at its foot; the other leads heavenwards the immortal who have not fainted on the way and have had the strength to endure the roughness of the hard ascent.
 * 77.

 * The natural gravitation of the body pulls down with it those of little mind, strangling and overwhelming them with the multitude of the fleshly elements. Blessed are they to whom it is given to resist with superior strength the weight that would pull them down, taught by the guiding lines of right instruction to leap upward from earth and earth-bound things into the ether and the revolving heavens.
 * 79.

 * There is no sweeter delight than that the soul should be charged through and through with justice, exercising itself in her eternal principles and doctrines and leaving no vacant place into which injustice can make its way.
 * 97.

 * If one adds anything small or great to the queen of virtues, piety, or on the other hand takes something from it, in either case he will change and transform its nature. Addition will beget superstition and subtraction will beget impiety.
 * 99- 101.

On the Virtues
translated by F. Colson (1939)

 * But some, making no account of the wealth of nature, pursue the wealth of vain opinions. They choose to lean on one who lacks rather than one who has the gift of sight, and with this defective guidance to their steps must of necessity fall.
 * 167.

 * We must mention the higher, nobler wealth, which does not belong to all, but to truly noble and divinely gifted men. This wealth is bestowed by wisdom through the doctrines and principles of ethic, logic and physic, and from these spring the virtues, which rid the soul of its proneness to extravagance, and engender the love of contentment and frugality, which will assimilate it to God. For God has no wants, He needs nothing, being in Himself all-sufficient to Himself, while the fool has many wants, ever thirsting for what is not there, longing to gratify his greedy and insatiable desire, which he fans into a blaze like a fire and brings both great and small within its reach. But the man of worth has few wants, standing midway between mortality and immortality.
 * 167-169.

 * The health of the soul is to have its faculties, reason, high spirit and desire happily tempered, with the reason in command and reining in the other two, like restive horses. The special name of this health is temperance, that is σωφροσύνη or “thought-preserving,” for it creates a preservation of one of our powers, namely that of wise-thinking.
 * 171.

 * If they are unwilling to give, they should at least lend with all readiness and alacrity, not with the prospect of receiving anything back except the principal. … In place of the interest which they determine not to accept they receive a further bonus of the fairest and most precious things that human life has to give, mercy neighborliness, charity, magnanimity, a good report and good fame. And what acquisition can rival these? Nay, even the great king will appear as the poorest of men if compared with a single virtue. For his wealth is soulless, buried deep in store-houses and recesses of the earth, but the wealth of virtue lies in the sovereign part of the soul, and the purest part of existence.
 * 213.

 * Can we then hold the poverty-in-wealth of the money-grubbing usurers to be of any account? They may seem to be kings with purses full of gold, but they never even in their dreams have had a glimpse of the wealth that has eyes to see.
 * 213-215.

Every Good Man is Free

 * As translated by F. Colson (Loeb Classical Library: 1941)

 * τὸν μὲν οὖν τῶν Πυθαγορείων ἱερώτατον θίασον λόγος ἔχει μετὰ πολλῶν καὶ ἄλλων καλῶν καὶ τοῦτ᾿ ἀναδιδάσκειν, “ταῖς λεωφόροις μὴ βαδίζειν ὁδοῖς,” οὐχ ἵνα κρημνοβατῶμεν—οὐ γὰρ ποσὶ κάματον παρήγγελλεν—, ἀλλ᾿ αἰνιττόμενος διὰ συμβόλου τὸ μήτε λόγοις μήτ᾿ ἔργοις δημώδεσι καὶ πεπατημένοις χρῆσθαι.
 * Pythagoras teaches among other excellent doctrines this also, “walk not on the highways.” This does not mean that we should climb steep hills—the school was not prescribing foot-weariness—but it indicates by this figure that in our words and deeds we should not follow popular and beaten tracks.
 * 2.

 * They in their desire for health commit themselves to physicians, but these people show no willingness to cast off the soul-sickness of their untrained grossness by resorting to wise men....
 * 12.

 * Wisdom … never closes her school of thought but always opens her doors to those who thirst for the sweet water of discourse, and pouring on them an unstinted stream of undiluted doctrine, persuades them to be drunken with the drunkenness which is soberness itself.
 * 13.

 * Bodies have men as their masters, souls their vices and passions.
 * 17.

 * God and no mortal is my Sovereign.
 * 19.

 * He who has God alone for his leader, he alone is free.
 * 20.

 * If one looks with a penetrating eye into the facts, he will clearly perceive that no two things are so closely akin as independence of action and freedom, because the bad man has a multitude of encumbrances, such as love of money or reputation and pleasure, while the good man has none at all. He stands defiant and triumphant.
 * 21.

 * The good man … has learnt to set at naught the injunctions laid upon him by those most lawless rulers of the soul, inspired as he is by his ardent yearning for the freedom whose peculiar heritage it is that it obeys no orders and works no will but its own.
 * 22.

 * Homer often calls kings “shepherds of the people,” but nature more accurately applies the title to the good, since kings are more often in the position of the sheep than of the shepherd. They are led by strong drink and good looks and by baked meats and savory dishes and the dainties produced by cooks and confectioners, to say nothing of their craving for silver and gold and grander ambitions.
 * 31.

 * But you say, “by obedience to another he loses his liberty.” How then is it that children suffer the orders of their father and mother, and pupils the injunctions of their instructors?
 * 36.

 * The legislator of the Jews in a bolder spirit went to a further extreme and in the practice of his “naked” philosophy, as they call it, ventured to speak of him who was possessed by love of the divine.
 * 43.

 * Those in whom anger or desire or any other passion, or again any insidious vice holds sway, are entirely enslaved, while all whose life is regulated by law are free. And right reason is an infallible law engraved not by this mortal or that and, therefore, perishable as he, nor on parchment slabs, and, therefore, soulless as they, but by immortal nature on the immortal mind, never to perish.
 * 45.

 * One may well wonder at the short-sightedness of those who ignore the characteristics which so clearly distinguish different things and declare that the laws of Solon and Lycurgus are all-sufficient to secure the greatest of republics, Athens and Sparta, because their sovereign authority is loyally accepted by those who enjoy that citizenship, yet deny that right reason, which is the fountain head of all other law, can impart freedom to the wise, who obey all that it prescribes or forbids.
 * 47.

 * We have a very clear evidence of freedom in the equality recognized by all the good in addressing each other.
 * 48.

 * Nothing will a man rue more than refusal to listen to the wise.
 * 54.

 * The majority, who through the blindness of their reason do not discern the damages which the soul has sustained, only feel the pain of external injuries, because the faculty of judgment, which alone can enable them to apprehend the damage to the mind, is taken from them.
 * 55.

 * Nor is it a matter for wonder that the good do not appear herded in great thongs. First because specimens of great goodness are rare, secondly, because they avoid the great crowd of the more thoughtless and keep themselves at leisure for the contemplation of what nature has to show.
 * 63.

 * What need is there of long journeying on the land or voyaging on the seas to seek and search for virtue, whose roots have been set by their Maker ever so near us, as the wise legislator of the Jews also says, “in thy mouth, in thy heart and in thy hand,” thereby indicating in a figure, words, thoughts and actions? All these, indeed, need the cultivator’s skill. Those who prefer idleness to labor, not only prevent the growths but also wither and destroy the roots. But those who consider inaction mischievous and are willing to labor, do as the husbandman does with fine young shoots. By constant care they rear the virtues into stems rising up to heaven, saplings ever blooming and immortal, bearing and never ceasing to bear the fruits of happiness, or as some hold, not so much bearing as being in themselves that happiness. These Moses often calls by the compound name of wholefruits. In the case of growths which spring from the earth, neither are the trees the fruit nor the fruit the trees, but in the soul’s plantation the saplings of wisdom, of justice, of temperance, have their whole being transformed completely into fruits.
 * 68-71.

 * And yet these things for which we should strive eagerly, things so closely akin to ourselves, so truly our own, we treat with great slackness and constant indifference and thus destroy the germs of excellence, while those things in which deficiency were a merit we desire with an insatiable yearning.
 * 71.

 * A far greater glory is it to the wise to die for freedom, the love of which stands in very truth implanted in the soul like nothing else, not as a casual adjunct but an essential part of its unity, and cannot be amputated without the whole system being destroyed as a result.
 * 75.

 * Nature … has born and reared all men alike, and created them genuine brothers, not in mere name, but in very reality, though this kinship has been put to confusion by the triumph of malignant covetousness, which has wrought estrangement instead of affinity and enmity instead of friendship.
 * 79.

 * Noble souls, whose brightness the greed of fortune cannot dim, have a kingly something, which urges them to contend on equal footing with persons of the most massive dignity and pits freedom of speech against arrogance.
 * 126.

 * This too is a truth well known to everyone who has taken even a slight hold of culture, that freedom is an honorable thing, and slavery a disgraceful thing, and that honorable things are associated with good men and disgraceful things with bad men. Hence, it clearly follows that no person of true worth is a slave, though threatened by a host of claimants who produce contracts to prove their ownership.
 * 136.

 * As parents in private life teach wisdom to their children, so do [poets] in public life to their cities.
 * 143.

 * Diogenes the cynic, seeing one of the so-called freedmen pluming himself, while many heartily congratulated him, marveled at the absence of reason and discernment. “A man might as well,” he said, “proclaim that one of his servants became a grammarian, a geometrician, or musician, when he has no idea whatever of the art.” For as the proclamation cannot make them men of knowledge, so neither can it make them free.
 * 157

Misattributed

 * Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
 * Attributed to Philo in How Do We Know When It's God?: A Spiritual Memoir (1999) by Dan Wakefield. It has also been wrongly attributed to Plato and Ephrem the Syrian. It is a variant of the Christmas message "Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle," written by the Scottish preacher Ian Maclaren (also known as John Watson) in 1897.
 * Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle. Plato? Philo of Alexandria?.

Quotes about Philo

 * It is evident that Philo's Therapeutes are a branch of the Essenes. Their name indicates it — Essaioc, Asaya, physician. Hence, the contradictions, forgeries, and other desperate expedients to reconcile the prophecies of the Jewish canon with the Galilean nativity and god-ship... Both Jesus and St. John the Baptist preached the end of the Age; which proves their knowledge of the secret computation of the priests and kabalists, who with the chiefs of the Essene communities alone had the secret of the duration of the cycles. The latter were kabalists and theurgists... they had their mystic books, and predicted future events...
 * H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, Vol. II, Chapter III], (1877)
 * Philo was enough heir to the Stoic and Platonic tradition to accord to the concept and name of araté an important place in his thought. ...The very meaning of araté is withdrawn from the positive faculties... and placed in the knowledge of nothingness. Confidence in one's own moral powers, the whole enterprise of self-perfection... and the self-attribution of the achievement—integral aspects of the Greek conception of virtue—this... is here condemned as the vice of self-love and conceit. ..."[Q]ueen of the virtues," the most perfect... is faith, which combines the turning to God with the recognition and contempt of one's own nothingness. ..."[T]he vice most odious to God" is vainglory, self-love, arrogance, presumption—in brief, the pride of considering oneself as one's own lord and ruler and of relying on one's own powers. This [is a] complete disintegration of the Greek ideal of virtue... While to the Hellenes from Plato to Plotinus man's way to God led through moral self-perfection, for Philo it leads through self-despair in the realization of one's nothingness. ..."For then is the time for the creature to encounter the Creator, when it has recognized its own nothingness"... To know God and to disown oneself is a standing correlation in Philo. "...fly from oneself and flee to God." ..."he who flees from his own flees to that of the All" ..."escape even thyself, and pass out of thyself, raving and God-possessed like the Dionysian Corybantes"
 * , The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginning of Christianity (1958) pp. 278-281.

 * There was now a tumult arisen at Alexandria, between the Jewish inhabitants and the Greeks; and three ambassadors were chosen out of each party that were at variance, who came to Gaius. Now one of these ambassadors from the people of Alexandria was Apion, (29) who uttered many blasphemies against the Jews; and, among other things that he said, he charged them with neglecting the honors that belonged to Caesar; for that while all who were subject to the Roman empire built altars and temples to Gaius, and in other regards universally received him as they received the gods, these Jews alone thought it a dishonorable thing for them to erect statues in honor of him, as well as to swear by his name. Many of these severe things were said by Apion, by which he hoped to provoke Gaius to anger at the Jews, as he was likely to be. But Philo, the principal of the Jewish embassage, a man eminent on all accounts, brother to Alexander the alabarch, (30) and one not unskillful in philosophy, was ready to betake himself to make his defense against those accusations; but Gaius prohibited him, and bid him begone; he was also in such a rage, that it openly appeared he was about to do them some very great mischief. So Philo being thus affronted, went out, and said to those Jews who were about him, that they should be of good courage, since Gaius's words indeed showed anger at them, but in reality had already set God against himself.
 * Flavius Josephus (Jewish historian), Antiquities of the Jews, xviii.8, § 1, Whiston's translation. This is Josephus' complete account of Philo.

 * Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical method of exegesis. By this, as Erdmann observes, the Bible narrative was found to contain a deeper, and particularly an allegorical interpretation, in addition to its literal interpretation; this was not conscious disingenuousness but a natural mode of amalgamating the Greek philosophic with the Hebraic doctrines.
 * Henry Fairfield Osborn, From the Greeks to Darwin (1894).

 * Many of the Christian writers grew up in communities where the teaching of the Stoics was all-pervasive in cultured circles. Through this philosophy they became familiar with the concept that "reason pervades all things like a fiery essence, and that the soul of man is a spark from this universal reason." Philo, chief exponent of the Alexandrian school of Judaism, who lived during the period 30 B.C.-50 A.D., was another channel through which Greek ideas flowed into the early [Christian] church. Philo attempted to combine Hebrew religion and Greek philosophy. He gave great impetus to the tendency to allegorize the Old Testament and to derive from it highly speculative ideas which became universal among Christian theologians. Philo's interpretation of the Greek term "Logos" profoundly affected Christian thought.
 * Kirby Page, Jesus or Christianity, A Study in Contrasts (1929) p. 84.

 * So all pervasive indeed was this moral philosophy of the Stoics that it was read by the Jews of Alexandria into Moses under the veil of allegory and was declared to be the inner meaning of the Hebrew Scriptures.
 * St. George William Joseph Stock, A Guide to Stoicism (1908), p. 5.

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Gnosticism (from Greek gnosis, knowledge) is a term created by modern scholars to describe diverse, syncretistic religious movements, especially in the first centuries of the Common Era. Gnostics believe in gnosis, a knowledge of Ultimate Reality or God enabled by secret teachings. Some Gnostics have considered themselves Christian, identifying Jesus as the divine spirit incarnated to bring gnosis to humanity; however, forms of Gnostic dualism placed many in stark contrast to orthodox Christian teachings, and they were labelled heretics. Many Gnostic texts appear to have no Christian element at all, and many Gnostics were not even nominally Christian, while others were certainly devout mystic ascetics who worshipped Jesus and lived in their own unique ways according to His teachings. Simon Magus is believed by some Christians to be the founder of Gnosticism, but many gnostic elements and teachings predate the influence of this figure by centuries.

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 * Gnostic ideas had a considerable influence upon such idealists as Goethe, Novalis and Hegel. The theosophical movement of the 20th century with which Gnosticism has much in common, rightly claims the Gnostics as its spiritual ancestor. Jungian psychology, which owes not a little to this movement, can be of some help in interpreting Gnostic mythology and may help to show that behind it there is a religious experience of a certain type.
 * Encyclopaedia Britannica (1963 edition), Vol. 10, p. 506.

 * GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

 * The Gnostics were the earliest Christians with anything like a regular theological system, and it is only too evident that it was Jesus who was made to fit their theology as Christos, and not their theology that was developed out of his sayings and doings. Their ancestors had maintained, before the Christian era, that the Great Serpent — Jupiter, the Dragon of Life, the Father and "Good Divinity," had glided into the couch of Semele, and now, the post-Christian Gnostics, with a very trifling change, applied the same fable to the man Jesus, and asserted that the same "Good Divinity," Saturn (Ilda-Baoth), had, in the shape of the Dragon of Life, glided over the cradle of the infant Mary.
 * Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, (1877) Volume II, Chapter X.

 * The term gnosticism comes from the Greek word gnōsis, which means knowledge. Gnostics are those who are "in the know." And what is it that they know? They know secrets that can bring salvation. For gnostics, a person is saved not by having faith in Christ or by doing good works. Rather, a person is saved by knowing the truth—the truth about the world we live in, about who the true God is, and especially about who we ourselves are. In other words, this is largely self-knowledge: Knowledge of where we came from, how we got here, and how we can return to our heavenly home. According to most gnostics, this material world is not our home. We are trapped here, in these bodies of flesh, and we need to learn how to escape. For those gnostics who were also Christian (many gnostics were not), it is Christ himself who brings this secret knowledge from above. He reveals the truth to his intimate followers, and it is this truth that can set them free.
 * Bart D. Ehrman, "Christianity Turned on Its Head: The Alternative Vision of the Gospel of Judas", in The Gospel of Judas (2006) ed. by R. Kasser, M. Meyer and G. Wurst, p. 84

 * The emanistic theories which played so great a part in Neoplatonic philosophy and Gnostic theology are forms of evolution.
 * Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century (1889).

 * Gnosticism has always appealed to intellectuals. Freud offered a particularly succulent variety. He had a brilliant gift for classical allusion and imagery at a time when all educated people prided themselves on their knowledge of Greek and Latin. He was quick to seize on the importance attached to myth by the new generation of social anthropologists such as Sir James Frazer, whose The Golden Bough began to appear in 1890. The meaning of dreams, the function of myth - into this potent brew Freud stirred an all-pervading potion of sex, which he found at the root of almost all human behavior. The war had loosened tongues over sex; the immediate post-war period saw the habit of sexual discussion carried into print. Freud's time had come. He had, in addition to his literary gifts, some of the skills of a sensational journalist. He was an adept neologian. He could mint a striking slogan. Almost as often as his younger contemporary Rudyard Kipling, he added words and phrases to the language: 'the unconscious', 'infantile sexuality,' the 'Oedipus complex', 'inferiority complex', 'guilt complex', the ego, the id and the super-ego, 'sublimation,' 'depth-psychology.'
 * Paul Johnson, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (1991), ISBN 9780060168339
 * In the Gnostic formula it is understood that, though thrown into temporality, we had an origin in eternity, and so also we have an aim in eternity.
 * , The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginning of Christianity (1958, 1963) p. 335.

 * Abandon the search for God and the creation and other matters of a similar sort. Look for him by taking yourself as the starting point. Learn who it is within you who makes everything his own and says, "My God, my mind, my thought, my soul, my body." Learn the sources of sorrow, joy, love, hate. Learn how it happens that one watches without willing, rests without willing, becomes angry without willing, loves without willing. If you carefully investigate these matters you will find him in yourself.
 * Monoimus, quoted by Hippolytus of Rome, Refutationis Omnium Haeresium, 8.15.1-2, as translated in The Gnostic Gospels (1989) by Elaine Pagels, Introduction, p. xix.

 * In the concluding document of Messina the proposal was 'by the simultaneous application of historical and typological methods' to designate 'a particular group of systems of the second century after Christ' as 'gnosticism', and to use 'gnosis' to define a conception of knowledge transcending the times which was described as 'knowledge of divine mysteries for an élite'.
 * Christoph Markschies, Gnosis: An Introduction (2003), p. 13.

 * "To seek myself and know who I was and who and in what manner I now am, that I may again become that which I was:" This is a characteristic formulation of the Gnostic goal. According to Gnostics, we must realize that there is at our core a spark of spirit which was once part of the universal spirit; that this individual spirit has become embedded in gross matter, in the body, through activities of lesser powers (often called archons or rulers), like the creator-lawgiver god of the Jews, who wish to keep the human spirit in thrall; that we can escape this bodily prison by recognizing our true original home and evade the grasp of the archons and ascend again to that home — the spiritual Pleroma, the Fullness — to be reunited in Oneness. To put it another way, a human being can overcome the differentiation of this world, its dividedness into multiplicity, and merge again into the primordial unity.
 * Herbert Christian Merillat, in The Gnostic Apostle Thomas: "Twin" of Jesus? (1997) Ch. 3 : The True Wedding.

 *  Gnosis is a Greek word for knowledge — not, in this context, knowledge in the sense of rational learning but intuitive knowledge reaching beyond the limits of reason to truths hidden from ordinary experience and intellect. One leading scholar of Gnosticism, Bentley Layton, translates "gnosis" as "acquaintance," comparing it to the French "connaitre" rather than "savoir." There can be no precise counterpart of so imprecise a term as gnosis, but we presumably ought to read into whatever word is used some sense that the Gnostic — the Knower — felt seized by a great truth that dominated his or her view of life and being. Gnosis was thought to lead to a unitive, or mystical, experience in which the composite world would be left behind and a primordial, undifferentiated Oneness regained. A close resemblance to Indian notions of "enlightenment," "illumination," and "release" is readily apparent, and … we will find many clues suggesting a strong affinity with Indian thought in at least part of the early Christian world. And the quest for an inner spiritual or mystical truth beyond the experience of worldly life is found among later Christian mystics, Muslim Sufis, Jewish Kabbalists, and various contemporary religious movements in the West.
 * Herbert Christian Merillat, in The Gnostic Apostle Thomas: "Twin" of Jesus? (1997) Ch. 3 : The True Wedding.

 * Those of us who are Gnostics believe that all people are ultimately saved and that God always loves us, no matter what we do. These beliefs are true, but they can very easily be simplified and misunderstood. God is never angry with us in the way in which a vengeful human would reject us, but God’s love for us has a dark side and one which we should rightfully fear. God loves us not in a sentimental way which aims at our ease and pleasure but, rather in a way which aims at our highest good and with an intensity which no one, even the highest angels, can understand. God is absolutely determined, with an infinite determination, to rid us of all that does not reflect His Goodness. As one of our hymns puts it,
 * “But unto wrong what is His Name? Our God is a consuming flame To every wrong beneath the sun!”
 * And, because of that, God’s punishments are terrible, and it is wise to fear them.
 * Edward J. Parkinson, in "Divine Justice: Gnostic Reflections on Some Often Terrifying Realities" at CatholicGnostics.com.

 * A separate issue is the return of ancient gnostic ideas under the guise of the so-called New Age. We cannot delude ourselves that this will lead toward a renewal of religion. It is only a new way of practicing gnosticism-that attitude of the spirit that, in the name of a profound knowledge of God, results in distorting His Word and replacing it with purely human words. Gnosticism never completely abandoned the realm of Christianity. Instead, it has always existed side by side with Christianity, sometimes taking the shape of a philosophical movement, but more often assuming the characteristics of a religion or para-religion in distinct, if not declared, conflict with all that is essentially Christian.
 * John Paul II. Crossing the threshold of hope. As quoted in Swarup, Ram, & Johannes, P. (1995). Pope John Paul II on Eastern religions and yoga: A Hindu-Buddhist rejoinder.

 * Aristotle died in the year 322 B.C. By A.D. 100 the predominant centre of intellectual development had shifted to Alexandria. ...By the later Alexandrian period... salvation had become paramount and men doubted whether, without... Divine Revelation, their perplexities about Nature could be resolved... The principle... that men... must offer cogent arguments in support of their statements had been abandoned. In the intermediate period we find... men as Archimedes, Hipparchus, and Euclid retained the rational scientific ideals of the classical philosophers, and carried their analyses to new levels of refinement and sophistication. But alongside... we find the beginnings of gnosticism—the claim that one can more certainly achieve... truth by way of asceticism, purification and mystical practices. Between these extremes lie two major schools of philosophers, whose teachings could be interpreted in alternative ways—either as rational systems of natural philosophy or with an eye to their religious significance. These two aspects were already present in the case of Epicurus for whom was as much a weapon against the terrors of contemporary religion as it was a detailed theory of Nature. And a similar double purpose is apparent in the world-system of the Stoics.
 * ,, The Architecture of Matter (1962)

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User talk:Terrymaughon

Hi, on behalf of the Welcoming Committee, Welcome to the English Wikiquote! Enjoy! WelcomeBot owner! question? 19:50, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
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User talk:Tcrafter

Hi, on behalf of the Welcoming Committee, Welcome to the English Wikiquote! Enjoy! WelcomeBot owner! question? 19:50, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
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User talk:Ckarthik83in

Hi, on behalf of the Welcoming Committee, Welcome to the English Wikiquote! Enjoy! WelcomeBot owner! question? 19:51, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
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User talk:Bahzahkhain

Hi, on behalf of the Welcoming Committee, Welcome to the English Wikiquote! Enjoy! WelcomeBot owner! question? 19:51, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
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title: User talk:Bahzahkhain