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The mystery of the human heart
Stephen Fry quotes Wittgenstein in Room 101 TV program: "--And as Wittgenstein quite rightly said, 'When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.'" (see Stephen Fry quotes or the video). Now, can anyone verify that this, or something along the lines, actually comes from Wittgenstein? I couldn't find anything else but more "second hand quotes".

Wittgenstein quotes from Wikipedia that need to be incorporated

 * From the introduction to the Tractatus: "...the aim of this book is to draw a limit to thought, or rather — not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to draw a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable..."

 * "If one tries to advance 'theses' (i.e. theories) in philosophy, it would never be possible to debate them, because everyone would agree to them."

 * "The answer to every philosophical question is a truism."

 * "Philosophy simply puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything."
 * I think from Philosophical Investigations, there is a variant on 'whereof one cannot speak, nothing should be spoken' which goes "A nothing is as good as a something about which nothing can be said"
 * "Ambition is the death of thought." (Somewhere in the Culture and Value compilation.)

what's with the emboldening and superfluous illustrations

It turns it into coffee-table fluff and detracts from the content. It looks embarrassing crap.
 * That seems to be about as nearly a shallow and vacuous an assessment as could possibly be made of them. I do believe that far more people enjoy the addition of images, and find them interesting than are actually inclined to object to them. They were usually chosen to present images which were related to Wittgenstein's life or expressed concepts. As I might only be briefly checking in, and have many other things to do right now, I will simply respond with a few quotes of Wittgenstein — whose ideas I have enjoyed pondering, at least since I was about seven years of age, and who was always alert to the complexities of Life beyond shallow assessments, and those which might seem clever to the most shallow minded.
 * That seems to be about as nearly a shallow and vacuous an assessment as could possibly be made of them. I do believe that far more people enjoy the addition of images, and find them interesting than are actually inclined to object to them. They were usually chosen to present images which were related to Wittgenstein's life or expressed concepts. As I might only be briefly checking in, and have many other things to do right now, I will simply respond with a few quotes of Wittgenstein — whose ideas I have enjoyed pondering, at least since I was about seven years of age, and who was always alert to the complexities of Life beyond shallow assessments, and those which might seem clever to the most shallow minded.

 * Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language.

 * Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples.

 * Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.

 * Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

 * Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

 * My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.)

 * What I give is the morphology of the use of an expression. I show that it has kinds of uses of which you had not dreamed. In philosophy one feels forced to look at a concept in a certain way. What I do is suggest, or even invent, other ways of looking at it. I suggest possibilities of which you had not previously thought. You thought that there was one possibility, or only two at most. But I made you think of others. Furthermore, I made you see that it was absurd to expect the concept to conform to those narrow possibilities. Thus your mental cramp is relieved, and you are free to look around the field of use of the expression and to describe the different kinds of uses of it.

I feel that images, far from being merely superfluous embellishments can often provide at least a few more rungs to the ladders of thoughts, ideas and associations by which people might climb to greater heights of awareness and attain broader perspectives related to many ideas than they otherwise would. ~ Thursday 22:11, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

 * A claim that fewer people object than approve carries no weight when made by one who repeatedly argues the same point under multiple names in multiple places. (Not that I wish to call the question of whether the silent majority actually approves, just saying.....) ~ Ningauble 17:58, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Truth carries weight, no matter who declares it or how it is declared. The point I was making, under a name declared to be associated with others I have used, and perhaps previously elsewhere, once or twice, with names that were undeclared prior to this (LONG AFTER the practice was actually quite well established with very little dispute at all), is that there have been images used for years on this wiki, and on this page, and I personally perceive there to have been far more signs of encouragement and approval than disapproval, with most of the disapproval coming from a few people who seem to insist there should be no images at all, or no images not related directly to the subject of the page. With images related to the subjects of the qoutes used extensively on hundreds of pages over the years there have only been a very few complaints made, and thus I have had little indication that this is anything but a very rare opinion, no matter how strongly some of those very few who complain are inclined to insist that images shouldn't be used. ~ Thursday 18:18, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

 * > That seems to be about as nearly a shallow and vacuous an assessment as could possibly be made of them.
 * Not a reasoned, philosophical rebuttal, and your habit here and elsewhere in emphasising particular words reminds me of a spiderman comic I flicked through some years ago in a newsagents.
 * > I do believe that far more people enjoy the addition of images, and find them interesting than are actually inclined to object to them
 * That might be a good point if you provided any evidence of this. My own preference is for the material to speak for itself. If it requires the presence of over-saturated, 'uplifting' tat then it is intrinsically lacking. Perhaps some dolphins to help things along?
 * Practically, then, I'd like to make some points:
 * * Wiki is an encyclopaedia and as such is for the collection and dissemination of information. It is not a playground to one person's aesthetic.
 * * Of the illustrations, the animated one on Euler's identity is particularly distracting for simple physiological reasons that you should be aware of.
 * * Not everyone in the world has cheap, good quality internet connections. Your unnecessary illustrations add substantially to the download and in those cases reduce the value of this page (facts, because I'm sure Wittgenstein would have approved of facts - size of html in page: 98K, total size of illustrations: 278K). This matters.
 * Finally, perhaps you could do a little pondering over Strunk & White.
 * 78.147.177.74 20:05, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

 * I am amused. I take it you believe "Not a reasoned, philosophical rebuttal, and your habit here and elsewhere in emphasising particular words reminds me of a spiderman comic I flicked through some years ago in a newsagents" is a "reasoned, philosophical rebuttal"? The only additional point I would make at this point is that this is NOT Wikipedia, and NOT "an encyclopaedia" — it is a place for the presentation of quotes, and I believe Wittgenstien would agree: The whole world IS "a playground" of aesthetics and sometimes a battleground of various forms of personal, sub-personal and supra-personal forms of awareness and aesthetics. ~ Thursday 20:49, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

 * > I take it you believe "...[spiderman comic stuff]..." is a "reasoned, philosophical rebuttal"?
 * No, it was a notable precedent. Ignore it then in preference to addressing the concrete rebuttal points which you appear to have substantially missed, viz. that this is not your personal page for embroidery, it is a community resource which should be treated as such, and by mucking up its accessibility by bandwidth clogging you do a disservice to it and a significant section of its users, perhaps those who need it most.
 * To the point that this is not wikipedia and not an encylopaedia, you are correct and I was wrong, but that does not alter otherwise alter the argument - it is still a community resource.
 * Regarding "and I believe Wittgenstien would agree: ...", your belief that Wittgenstien would agree to your claim has no status and no relevance. Usability, community and bandwidth - this is at issue.
 * As to "...The whole world IS "a playground" of aesthetics and sometimes a battleground of various forms of personal, sub-personal and supra-personal forms of awareness and aesthetics", I really have no idea what this means but I suspect that was the point. I refer you again to Strunk & White, specifically  and notably these:
 * Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such separate entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable. The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style — all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
 * and
 * Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
 * and
 * No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence, or whose attitude is patronizing.
 * 78.149.148.216 01:57, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

I am quite trustful of most people's intelligence — and their ability to get many of Wittgenstein's points — and much of the quite apparent relevance of many of the selected images as well. But have you even examined the quotes I provided above by Wittgenstein? "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language." That and several of the others are clearly relevant to some of the things being asserted here.

Wittgenstein began as a philosopher who recognized the usefulness of rigorous rules and definitions, to determine certain forms of truth, but ended as one who saw the need to transcend and reject many forms of rules, definitions and suppositions. I definitely agree that this project is a community resource, and for several years I have worked on it, making thousands of edits, with great perseverance to contribute my WORK in ADDING TO it, and NOT by adding RULES to it by which to constrain the rights of others — and working AGAINST the impulses of those I consider among the most bossy and lazy-minded of people, who would seek to have far greater influence than they in any way deserve, out of all proportion to their work or effort, by simply finding ways to hoodwink people and IMPOSE all forms of detrimental and needless rules upon them. I have seen such tendencies growing, and continue to oppose them, though I suspect that there are at least a few people who seek to impose all kinds of further constraints on myself and others in whatever ways they can.

So far as I can determine by your current edit history, you are a person who has used a couple of IPs to do little more than complain about images, and the bolding of quotes, and perhaps might have used some previous ones to make a few complaints about the same. You might well have a greater presence and contribution to the project than is immediately apparent, but I am inclined to doubt that your talk of "community" is little more than an attempt to use words which might appeal to others who actually DO more than complain about the work that has been going on for years here, who have a clear and obvious COMMITMENT to enhancing it in ways far more truly substantial and worthy of respect than simply the desire to impose new rules and constraints on others.

Beyond the images of Wittgenstein and his family, I assert the images are for the most part very well chosen ones, and relate to the quotes well. One of them, the Duck-Rabbit is an image Wittgenstein himself USED to illustrate his concepts and testimonies of the AMBIGUITIES of all assertions. I assert the use of images enhance the interest and the involvement of people's minds, and oppose the DUMBING-down of the presentations to NOT actually engage and challenge the minds and imaginations of people in such ways as many of the great philosophers have done. ~ Thursday (talk · contributions) 03:34, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

 * Who was talking about making rules? Our IP friend refers to personal preference, and I said I have no wish to call the question. Hurling invectives at unnamed groups of people over an issue that isn't in question hardly seems constructive. ~ Ningauble 18:28, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

 * Hurling invectives was certainly not begun by me here, and the accusative tone of expressions need not be explicit insults to any person or their actions to be very insulting to human dignity and paths of action and response worthy of a human being. I responded to the comment "what's with the emboldening and superfluous illustrations it turns it into coffee-table fluff and detracts from the content. It looks embarrassing crap" with all the civility I thought it deserved. It and further comments might not be specifically a call for rules, but it is clearly an expression of sentiment that indicates a will to create constraints that might prevent the page from having such images, and I responded to it in as honest and sincere a fashion as I found the time to do. I certainly have not sought to constrain my opponents on any issue from expressing their views as clearly and passionately as they wish to, and I don't actually favor any such forms of constraints. Freedom to indicate and express forms of honest disagreement — and to skewer errors, false presumptions and deficient analogies is usually far better than any form of imposed "agreements." I was responding to a passionate expression with some general knowledge of human behavior patterns — including my own— and I don't agree with the assessments that meticulously mantained "mildness" and some of the extremes of self-constraint or socially imposed constraints are always the most "civil" or proper of responses one can make to assertions. ~ Kalki/Thursday (talk · contributions) 19:07, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

 * okay, piece by piece -
 * > (quoted)"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language."
 * I can't see the relevance.
 * > Wittgenstein began as a philosopher who recognized the usefulness of rigorous rules and definitions, to determine certain forms of truth, but ended as one who saw the need to transcend and reject many forms of rules, definitions and suppositions
 * er, relevance to this discussion?
 * > for several years I have worked on it
 * good for you, seriously. I have been more of a consumer than producer. However that does not invalidate my criticisms here.
 * > ...NOT by adding RULES to it by which to constrain the rights of others...
 * As Ningauble has said, I was not making rules. Having free speech implies a degree of discretion in proportion to that freedom. The ability to freely edit wikiquote implies a similar requisite discretion. I dispute that you are using it, and I tried to explain why with concrete facts.
 * Which you've again not addressed.
 * Just making vague assertions eg. "I assert the use of images enhance the interest and the involvement of people's minds" would be relevant if it is true. I'm questioning this. If in general people do feel the benefit of these images outweigh their cost then the argument is settled. So far it is not.
 * > ...seek to impose all kinds of further constraints on myself...
 * As given above, that constraint -- if necessary! -- should be self constraint.
 * > ...you are a person who has used a couple of IPs...
 * You won't get much from these as they are DHCP'd, see
 * > ...COMMITMENT to enhancing it in ways far more truly substantial and worthy...
 * Like adding trinket illustrations? Let's see, you say "[excluding Witt.+family]...I assert the images are for the most part very well chosen ones, and relate to the quotes well"
 * Well, let's ignore the subject + family photos. About the duckrabbit, this is the caption: "Every explanation is after all an hypothesis". The relation between this claim and duckrabbitous ambiguity is unclear to me.
 * Here are a list of the rest. Tell me how they assist comprehension:
 * A ray of light being refracted in a glass circle - "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
 * An animation of the derivation of pi - "It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him."
 * Pic of galaxy-thing, Hoag's object - "Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem..."
 * Uplifting-type rainbow-in-fields pic - "What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists." (I've noticed that too. Didn't need a picture either)
 * pic of hand in sunlight (with rainbow effect) - "To believe in God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning"
 * Some kind of rainbow artefact diffraction round a shadow (a sundog??) - "The World and Life are one. ... Ethics and Aesthetics are one." (used in over 100 other pages! - your doing?)
 * Whirlpool galaxy - "What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence."
 * Another rainbow diffraction pic - "Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability."
 * Another sodding rainbow diffraction pic - "Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits."
 * And I'm only halfway through. Do you want me to finish this list? No, this *is* dumbing down if not self indulgence.
 * > Hurling invectives was certainly not begun by me here...
 * Correct, I am responsible. I should not have done so.
 * > ...that indicates a will to create constraints that might prevent the page from having such images...
 * Based on the added or not added value, yes, but self-constraints. I repeat, this is based on the utility of these images. You have repeatedly ignored the common consent issues (did you discuss with anyone the pros and cons of adding these images? You imposed them but have I removed them? No) and bandwidth issues (which again you've ignored - I repeat, not everyone has bandwidth to waste, and you have not considered the extra infrastructure load you may be adding on the wikimedia servers - or did you think it comes free?)
 * > and to skewer errors, false presumptions and deficient analogies is usually far better than any form of imposed "agreements."
 * Quite. So deal with my points.
 * modified sentence above, and added this
 * I've noticed that many of these images are used elsewhere. For example, the hand against the sun with rainbow halo it used in 99 other quote pages. As I asked, is this your doing? Can this same picture hand/sun/rainbow "relate to the quotes well" in other contexts?
 * For confucius - "Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact."
 * for John Stuart Mill - "We are not so absurd as to propose that the teacher should not set forth his own opinions as the true ones and exert his utmost powers to exhibit their truth in the strongest light."
 * for Alexander Pope - "How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!/The world forgetting, by the world forgot./Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!/Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd..."
 * for Heraclitus - "It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one."
 * The Neverending Story - "AURYN will protect you and guide you, but whatever comes your way you must never interfere, because from this moment on your own opinion ceases to count."
 * Give me the common thread that relates these quotes to the picture. In short, clear words please.
 * I believe I've made my point (probably too many times). I hope to stop about here as I've work to do, lots of it, mundane stuff. I can only ask you reconsider your actions with the clarity that a professional philosopher might bring. You have undeniably brought care to your work here, but that's not enough.
 * 89.241.147.120 10:53, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

 * wikipedia:Academic elitism, philosophy is about having a good time with your peers. --201.230.179.63 15:21, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

"I don't know why we are here..." unsourced quote
The quote ""I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves" can be found all over the internet, but seems likely to be apocryphal: it is always quoted without attribution to a specific source. The source given in the wiki is a 2004 novel that, again, attributes merely to "Ludwig Wittgenstein". If Wittgenstein had really said or written this at any point, surely a biographer or scholar of his would have quoted it, and noted its (even supposed) source? Self-propelled 21:25, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Tractatus Logico-Philisophicus
"6.52 We feel that when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched. Of course then there are no questions left, and this itself is the answer."

Disputed quote
added a disputed quote here, while the quote and its source is quite clear described in Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir, p. 83 by Norman Malcolm, Georg Henrik Wright, Ludwig Wittgenstein (2001). This entry here seems incorrect. -- Mdd (talk) 11:14, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Very good. I appreciate your research and I have moved the quote out of the 'Disputed' section. Would you kindly confirm that I have cited the quotation properly?
 * Thanks, I rephrased the attribution to make the context more clear. Its still not perfect, especially since Rhees (1986, p. 168) has a footnote (47), which I am unable to read (online). -- Mdd (talk) 18:48, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Relevance of Love-Power-Wisdom diagram?
I don't think this diagram should be used on the Wittgenstein Wikiquote. I understand that the 'related' quote is about clarification, and that diagrams are used to clarify ideas.

The viewpoint this diagram is expressing, a distinction between Love, Wisdom, and Power, isn't one Wittgenstein held. Or if it is, then it isn't expressed in the quote or anywhere else I've seen.

The diagram is confusing because it's subject contains philosophers and is on a page on philosophers, so it could easily mislead the reader into thinking the ideas of the diagram are Wittgensteins.

 * agreed, removed IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 22:56, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (May 2, 1950 – April 12, 2009) was an American professor of English and an author in gender studies, lesbian and gay studies, queer theory and critical theory.

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 * With respect to the homosocial/homosexual style, it seems to be possible to divide Victorian men among three rough categories according to class. The first includes aristocratic men and small groups of their friends and dependents, including bohemians and prostitutes; for these people, by 1865, a distinct homosexual role and culture seem already to have been in existence in England... It seems to have constituted a genuine subculture, facilitated in the face of an ideologically hostile dominant culture by money, privilege, internationalism, and for the most part, the ability to command secrecy... This role is closely related to — is in fact, through Oscar Wilde, the antecedent of — the particular stereotype that at least until recently has characterized American middle-class gay homosexuality; its strongest associations, as we have noted, are with effeminacy, transvestism, promiscuity, prostitution, continental European culture, and the arts.
 * Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), pp. 172-173

 * I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.
 * Tendencies (Duke University Press, 1993), p. 2

 * Seemingly, this society wants its children to know nothing; wants its queer children to conform or (and this is not a figure of speech) die; and wants not to know that it is getting what it wants.
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 * One of the things that 'queer' can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signify monolithically.
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Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard (13 July 2305–) is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe, the captain of the USS Enterprise-D and the Enterprise-E. He was played by British actor Patrick Stewart in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the subsequent films and the streaming television series Star Trek: Picard.

Quotes

 * Make it so.
 * Catchphrase first used in "Encounter At Farpoint" (28 September 1987) by Gene Roddenberry

 * Engage.
 * Catchphrase first used in "Encounter At Farpoint" (28 September 1987) by Gene Roddenberry

 * Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
 * Catchphrase first used in "Encounter At Farpoint" (28 September 1987) by Gene Roddenberry

 * Part of having feelings is learning to integrate them into your life, Data, ...learning to live with them. No matter what the circumstances ... Sometimes it takes courage to try, Data. Courage can be an emotion too.
 * Star Trek Generations (1994) story by Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore and Rick Berman

 * It's our mortality that defines us, Soran. It's part of the truth of our existence.
 * Star Trek Generations (1994) story by Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore and Rick Berman. See also: The beginning of Youtube Video "Picard Words of Wisdom: Cherish Every Moment. Now Will Never Come Again" (09.12.2019) by user "Major Grin".

 * Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal.
 * Star Trek Generations (1994) story by Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore and Rick Berman

 * Reports of my assimilation are greatly exaggerated.
 * Star Trek: First Contact (1996) story by Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore and Rick Berman
 * Derivative of the statement "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" attributed to Mark Twain, paraphrasing his remark: "The report of my death was an exaggeration."

 * The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.
 * Star Trek: First Contact (1996) story by Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore and Rick Berman

 * The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!
 * Star Trek: First Contact (1996) story by Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore and Rick Berman

 * Patience. Diplomacy is a very exacting occupation. We will wait.
 * Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) story by John Logan, Rick Berman and Brent Spiner; On Equality and Peace

 * If there is one ideal that the Federation holds most dear, it is that all men, all races can be united.
 * Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) story by John Logan, Rick Berman and Brent Spiner; On Equality and Peace

 * [voiceover] Captain's Personal Log. The crew has responded with the dedication I've come to expect of them. And like a thousand other commanders on a thousand other battlefields, I wait for the dawn.
 * Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) story by John Logan, Rick Berman and Brent Spiner

 * Buried deep within you, beneath all the years of pain and anger, there is something that has never been nurtured: the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are. Oh, yes — I know you. There was a time you looked at the stars and dreamed of what might be.
 * Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) story by John Logan, Rick Berman and Brent Spiner

 * Never, never! You still have a choice. Make the right one now.
 * Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) story by John Logan, Rick Berman and Brent Spiner

 * I came here to finde safety. But one is never safe from the past.
 * Star Trek Picard: New York Comic-Con Trailer. Source: Patrick Stewart (5 October 2019): Star Trek Picard: New York Comic-Con Trailer | #StarTrekPicard. January 23, 2020. Star Trek on CBS All Access Amazon Prime Video UK CTV Sci-Fi Channel. Facebook page of Patrick Stewart.

 * The past is written, but we are left to write the future.
 * Star Trek Picard: New York Comic-Con Trailer. Source: Patrick Stewart (5. October 2019): Star Trek Picard: New York Comic-Con Trailer | #StarTrekPicard. January 23, 2020. Star Trek on CBS All Access Amazon Prime Video UK CTV Sci-Fi Channel. Facebook page of Patrick Stewart.

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 * Let's see what this galaxy class starship can do.
 * "Encounter At Farpoint" (28 September 1987) by Gene Roddenberry

 * If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are.
 * "Encounter At Farpoint" (28 September 1987) by Gene Roddenberry

 * Let's see what's out there. Engage.
 * "Encounter At Farpoint" (28 September 1987) by Gene Roddenberry

 * Sometimes, Riker, the best way to win a fight is not to be there.
 * "The Last Outpost" (19 October 1987) Story by Richard Krzmeien and Teleplay by Herbert Wright

 * There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions.
 * "Justice" (9 November 1987) by Worley Thorne and Ralph Wills

 * [Picard has just been released from Bok's mind control device]
 * Jean-Luc Picard: Bok! Where is Bok?!
 * William Riker: Removed from command, sir. And placed under guard for his act of personal vengeance. Seems there was no profit in it.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: In revenge, there never is. Let the dead rest... and the past, remain the past. Enterprise, lock on. Beam me home, Riker.
 * "The Battle" (16 November 1987) by Larry Forrester

 * What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
 * "Hide and Q" (23 November 1987) by C.J. Holland. Picard is quoting Hamelet from Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii. See also: The end of Youtube Video "Star Trek TNG -- What a Piece of Work Is Man" (11.11.2021) by user "Frustrated Idealist ".

 * Things are only impossible until they're not!
 * "When the Bough Breaks" (15 February 1988) by Hannah Louise Shearer; On persistence

 * Jean-Luc Picard: Good. The only person you're truly competing against, Wesley, is yourself.
 * Wesley Crusher: Then you're not disappointed?
 * Jean-Luc Picard: Wesley, you have to measure your successes and your failures within, not by anything I or anyone else might think.
 * "Coming of Age" (14 March 1988) by Sandy Fries

 * The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy ... and a very correct one. History has proven again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilization, no matter how well intentioned that interference may be, the results are invariably disastrous.
 * "Symbiosis" (18 April 1988) by Robert Lewin. See also: The middle of Youtube Video "Star Trek The Next Generation - The Prime Directive by Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Symbiosis S01E22" (27.04.2023) by user "Adventures in Rhythm".

 * You say you are true evil? Shall I tell you what true evil is? It is to submit to you. It is when we surrender our freedom, our dignity instead of defying you.
 * "Skin of Evil" (25 April 1988) by Joseph Stefano

 * [An alien is impersonating Data.]
 * Alien (as Data): What is death?
 * Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, is that all. Data, you're asking probably the most difficult of all questions. Some see it as a changing into an indestructible form, forever unchanging. They believe that the purpose of the entire universe is to then maintain that form in an Earth-like garden which will give delight and pleasure through all eternity. On the other hand there are those who hold to the idea of our blinking into nothingness with all of our experiences and hopes and dreams merely a delusion.
 * Alien (as Data): Which do you believe sir?
 * Jean-Luc Picard: Considering the marvelous complexity of the universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of this against that... matter, energy, gravitation, time, dimension, I believe that our existence must be more than either of these philosophies. That what we are goes beyond euclidean or other 'practical' measuring systems... and that our existence is part of a reality beyond what we understand now as reality.
 * "Where Silence Has Lease" (28 November 1988) by Jack B. Sowards

 * No being is so important that he can usurp the rights of another.
 * "The Schizoid Man" (23 January 1989) by Richard Manning and Hans Beimler

 * Your Honour, the courtroom is a crucible. In it we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a pure product, the truth for all time.
 * "The Measure of a Man" (13 February 1989) by Melinda M. Snodgrass

 * Your Honour, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well, there it sits!
 * "The Measure of a Man" (13 February 1989) by Melinda M. Snodgrass

 * Wesley: It's the Yamato, Captain. I can't stop thinking about her. All those people dead. I don't know how you and Commander Riker and Geordi, how you handle it so easily.
 * Picard: Easily? Oh no, not easily. We handle it because we're trained to, as you will be. Tea, Earl Grey, hot. But if the time ever comes when the death of a single individual fails to move us-
 * "Contagion", (March 18, 1989) written by Steve Gerber and Beth Woods

 * Mr. La Forge, time is one thing we do not have in abundance.
 * "Contagion" (20 March 1989) by Steve Gerber and Beth Woods
 * This line echoes a line from "Star Trek: TOS", episode "The Paradise Syndrome", in which Spock says "Time, Dr. McCoy, is the one thing we do not have in abundance." It has become a catch-phrase for Trekkies.

 * These officers are here to assist you. Not judge, help you. You should make use of them. They are a valuable resource. And by the way, I respect an officer who is prepared to admit ignorance and ask a question, rather than one who out of pride will blunder blindly forward.
 * "Pen Pals" (1 May 1989) by Hannah Louise Shearer

 * There is a loneliness inherent in that whisper from the darkness.
 * "Pen Pals" (1 May 1989) by Hannah Louise Shearer

 * Remembrance and regrets, they too are a part of friendship.
 * "Pen Pals" (1 May 1989) by Hannah Louise Shearer

 * Q: What justifies that smugness?
 * Jean-Luc Picard: Not smugness, not arrogance. But we are resolute, we are determined, and your help is not required.
 * "Q Who" (8 May 1989) by Maurice Hurley

 * Well, perhaps what we most needed was a kick in our complacency, to prepare us ready for what lies ahead.
 * "Q Who" (8 May 1989) by Maurice Hurley

 * Wesley Crusher: Didn't you ever wish you had kids of your own?
 * Jean-Luc Picard: Wishing for a thing does not make it so.
 * "Samaritan Snare" (15 May 1989) by Robert L. McCullough

 * Jean-Luc Picard: Did you read that book I gave you?
 * Wesley Crusher: Some of it.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: That's reassuring.
 * Wesley Crusher: I just don't have much time.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy.
 * Wesley Crusher: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship.
 * Wesley Crusher: But Starfleet Academy
 * Jean-Luc Picard: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.
 * "Samaritan Snare" (15 May 1989) by Robert L. McCullough. See also: The beginning of Youtube Video "Captain Picard: No greater challenge than the study of philosophy" (17.09.2020) by user "Jason Winning".

 * I'm pleased to report that Ensign Crusher's Starfleet exam results permit him to continue his studies on board the Enterprise. Furthermore, any rumours of my brush with death are greatly exaggerated.
 * "Samaritan Snare" (15 May 1989) by Robert L. McCullough

 * It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.
 * "Peak Performance" (10 July 1989) by David Kemper. See also: The beginning of Youtube Video "Picard Star Trek the Next Generation: It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose" (17.09.2020) by user "Darc Vigilante". See also: The beginning of Youtube Video "Data sulking like Achilles in his tent." (09.10.2013) by user "SkaIathrax".

 * Beverly Crusher: Data, telling us why you're going to fail before you make the attempt is never wise.*
 * Data: But is not honesty always the preferred choice?
 * Jean-Luc Picard: Excessive honesty can be disastrous, particularly in a commander.
 * Data: Indeed?
 * Jean-Luc Picard: Knowing your limitations is one thing. Advertising them to a crew can damage your credibility as a leader.
 * "The Ensigns of Command" (2 October 1989) by Melinda M. Snodgrass.

 * William Riker: You enjoyed that.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: You're damned right.
 * "The Ensigns of Command" (2 October 1989) by Melinda M. Snodgrass. See also: The middle of Youtube Video "TNG Picard owns the Sheliak (Ensigns of Command)" (08.02.2012) by user "trekclip123". Context: Picard exploits a loophole in the treaty with the Sheliak and offers the Sheliak a choice: either wait six months for third-party arbitrators, or give Picard three weeks to evacuate the colony. Outmaneuvered, the Sheliak agree to the three weeks.

 * We're not qualified to be your judges. We have no law to fit your crime.
 * "The Survivors" (9 October 1989) by Michael Wagner. See also: The end of Youtube Video "How I Wish I Could Have Died With Her" (18.06.2021) by user "tjwparso".

 * We leave behind a being of extraordinary power and conscience. I am not certain if he should be praised or condemned. Only that he should be left alone.
 * "The Survivors" (9 October 1989) by Michael Wagner. See also: The end of Youtube Video "How I Wish I Could Have Died With Her" (18.06.2021) by user "tjwparso".

 * Tomalak: I urge you, Captain Picard, surrender. Consider the men and women you would lead into a lost cause.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: If the cause is just and honourable, they are prepared to give their lives. Are you prepared to die today, Tomalak?
 * "The Defector" (1 January 1990) by Ronald D. Moore. See also: Middle of Youtube Video "The Enterprise -D Crossed The Neutral Zone" (28.03.2018) by user "April 5, 2063".

 * History has shown us that strength may be useless when faced with terrorism.
 * "The High Ground" (29 January 1990) by Melinda M. Snodgrass

 * Lt Cmdr. Data: But if that is so, Captain, why are their methods so often successful? I've been reviewing the history of armed rebellion, and it appears that terrorism is an effective way to promote political change.
 * Capt. Jean-Luc Picard: Yes, it can be. But I have never subscribed to the theory that political power flows from the barrel of a gun.
 * "The High Ground" (29 January 1990) by Melinda M. Snodgrass

 * 'A matter of internal security.' The age-old cry of the oppressor.
 * "The Hunted" (8 January 1990) by Robin Bernheim

 * Being first at any cost is not always the point.
 * "Tin Man" (23 March 1990) by Dennis Putman Bailey and David Bischoff

 * Let's make sure history never forgets the name Enterprise.
 * Statement to the entire crew in the alternate timeline towards the end of "Yesterday's Enterprise" (19 February 1990) story by Trent Christopher Ganino, Eric A. Stillwell Ira Steven Behr, Richard Manning, Hans Beimler, Ronald D. Moore. See also: Beginning of Youtube Video "History Never Forgets the Name Enterprise | Star Trek: The Next Generation - Yesterday's Enterprise" (11.06.2017) by user "Star Trek Clips".

 * There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders. You acknowledge their sentience, but ignore their personal liberties and freedom. Order a man to turn his child over to the state? Not while I'm his captain.
 * "The Offspring", (12 March 1990) by René Echevarria

 * You may test that assumption at your convenience.
 * "Sins of the Father" (19 March 1990) by Drew Deighan

 * Imprisonment is an injury, regardless of how you justify it.
 * "Allegiance" (26 March 1990) by Richard Manning and Hans Beimler

 * Picard: It's something of a tradition, Guinan - Captain touring the ship before a battle.
 * Guinan: Hmm. Before a hopeless battle, if I remember the tradition correctly.
 * Picard: Not necessarily. Nelson toured the HMS Victory before Trafalgar.
 * Guinan: Yes, but Nelson never returned from Trafalgar, did he?
 * Picard: No, but the battle was won.
 * "The Best of Both Worlds" (18 June 1990) by Michael Piller

 * Picard: I wonder if the Emperor Honorius watching the Visigoths coming over the seventh hill could truly realize that the Roman Empire was about to fall. This is really just another page of history, isn't it? Will this be the end of our civilization? Turn the page.
 * Guinan: This isn't the end.
 * Picard: You say that with remarkable assuredness.
 * "The Best of Both Worlds" (18 June 1990) by Michael Piller

 * The Borg: Captain Jean-Luc Picard. You lead the strongest ship of the Federation Starfleet. You speak for your people.
 * Picard: I have nothing to say to you. And I will resist you with my last ounce of strength!
 * The Borg: Strength is irrelevant. Resistance is futile. We wish to improve ourselves. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service ours.
 * Picard: Impossible! My culture is based on freedom and self-determination!
 * The Borg: Freedom is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant. You must comply.
 * Picard: We would rather die.
 * The Borg: Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.
 * "The Best of Both Worlds" (18 June 1990) by Michael Piller

 * I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been… is over. From this time forward, you will service… us.
 * "The Best of Both Worlds" (18 June 1990) by Michael Piller

 * The knowledge and experience of the human Picard is part of us now. It has prepared us for all possible courses of action. Your resistance is hopeless... Number One.
 * “The Best of Both Worlds”, (September 24, 1990), by Michael Piller

 * Jean-Luc Picard: They took everything I was. They used me to kill and to destroy and I couldn't stop them. I should have been able to stop them. I tried. I tried so hard. But I wasn't strong enough. I wasn't good enough! I should have been able to stop them. I should... I should...
 * Robert Picard: So... my brother is a human being after all. This is going to be with you a long time, Jean-Luc. A long time.
 * “Family", (October 1, 1990), by Ronald D. Moore

 * Trust requires time and experience.
 * "First Contact" (29 April 1991) with story by Marc Soctt Zicree and teleplay by Dennis Bailey & David Bischoff and Joe Menosky & Ronald D. Moore and Michael Piller. See also: End of Youtube Video "Captain Picard demonstrates diplomacy." (06.10.2013) by user "SkaIathrax".

 * You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy. "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged.
 * "The Drumhead" (29 April 1991) by Jeri Taylor

 * The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think.
 * "The Drumhead" (29 April 1991) by Jeri Taylor

 * Jean-Luc Picard: We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, is all ancient history. Then, before you can blink an eye, suddenly, it threatens to start all over again.
 * Worf': I believed her. I... helped her. I did not see her for what she was.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Worf, villains who twirl their moustache are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged.
 * Worf: I think... after yesterday people will not be so ready to trust her.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: Maybe. But she, or someone like her, will always be with us. Waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness. [...] Vigilance, Mr. Worf. That is the price we must continually pay.
 * "The Drumhead" (29 April 1991) by Jeri Taylor

 * I'd be delighted to offer any advice I have on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know.
 * "In Theory" (3 June 1991) by Joe Menosky and Ronald D. Moore

 * In my experience, communication is a matter of patience, imagination. I would like to believe these are qualities we have in sufficient measure.
 * "Darmok" (30 September 1991) by Joe Menosky and Phillip LaZebnik. See also: Beginning of Youtube Video "Beginning Scene From the Episode Darmok" (04.10.2021) by user "April 5, 2063".

 * You hoped this would happen, didn't you? You knew there was a dangerous creature on this planet and you knew from the tale of Darmok that a danger shared might sometimes bring two people together. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. You and me, here, at El-Adrel.
 * "Darmok" (30 September 1991) by Joe Menosky and Phillip LaZebnik

 * Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, the Homeric Hymns. One of the root metaphors of our own culture.
 * William Riker: For the next time we encounter the Tamarians?
 * Jean-Luc Picard: More familiarity with our own mythology might help us to relate to theirs. The Tamarian was willing to risk all of us just for the hope of communication, connection. Now the door is open between our peoples. That commitment meant more to him than his own life.
 * "Darmok" (30 September 1991) by Joe Menosky and Phillip LaZebnik

 * Every choice we make allows us to manipulate the future. Do I ask Adrienne or Suzanne to the spring dance? Do I take my holiday on Corsica or on Risa? A person's life, their future, hinges on each of a thousand choices. Living is making choices. Now you ask me to believe that if I make a choice other than the one found in your history books, then your past will be irrevocably altered. Well, you know, Professor, perhaps I don't give a damn about your past, because your past is my future and as far as I'm concerned, it hasn't been written yet.
 * "A Matter of Time" (30 September 1991) by Rick Berman.

 * The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based! If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!
 * "The First Duty" (March 30, 1992) by Ronald D. Moore and Naren Shankar

 * Seize the time... Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.
 * "The Inner Light" (1 June 1992) by Morgan Gendel and Peter Allan Fields. See also: The beginning of Youtube Video "Picard Words of Wisdom: Cherish Every Moment. Now Will Never Come Again" (09.12.2019) by user "Major Grin".

 * You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think it is connected to some higher purpose.
 * "Chain of Command" (October 5, 1992) by Frank Abatemarco

 * There are four lights!
 * "Man of the People" (21 December 1992) by Frank Abatemarco

 * No, I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed!
 * "Tapestry" (15 February 1993) by Ronald D. Moore

 * I would rather die as the man I was than live the life I just saw.
 * "Tapestry" (15 February 1993) by Ronald D. Moore

 * There is a way out of every box, a solution to every puzzle; it's just a matter of finding it.
 * "Attached" (8 November 1993) by Nick Sagan

 * I prefer to look on the future as something which is not written in stone. A lot of things can happen in 25 years.
 * "All Good Things..." (23 May 1994) by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore

 * We are what we are, and we're doing the best we can. It is not for you to set the standards by which we should be judged!
 * "All Good Things..." (23 May 1994) by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore

 * Now, this will put the ship at risk. Quite frankly, we may not survive. But I want you to believe that I am doing this for a greater purpose, and that what is at stake here is more than any of you can possibly imagine. I know you have your doubts about me, about each other, about this ship. All I can say is that although we have only been together for a short time, I know that you are the finest crew in the fleet. And I would trust each of you with my life. So, I am asking you for a leap of faith — and to trust me.
 * "All Good Things..." (23 May 1994) by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore

 * So, five-card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit.
 * "All Good Things..." (23 May 1994) by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore

Star Trek: Picard

 * Laris: Bad dreams?
 * Jean-Luc Picard: The dreams are lovely. It's the waking up that I'm beginning to resent.

 * Remembrance (January 23, 2020), written By Akiva Goldsman and James Duff; story by Akiva Goldsman & Michael Chabon & Kirsten Beyer & Alex Kurtzman and James Duff

 * Sitting here, all these years, nursing my offended dignity, writing books of history people prefer to forget. I never asked anything of myself at all. [...] I haven’t been living. I’ve been waiting to die.
 * Remembrance (January 23, 2020), written By Akiva Goldsman and James Duff; story by Akiva Goldsman & Michael Chabon & Kirsten Beyer & Alex Kurtzman and James Duff

 * I'm not in the habit of consulting lawyers before I do what needs to be done.
 * The End Is the Beginning (February 6, 2020) by Michael Chabon and Akiva Goldsman

 * Raffi Musiker: But you remember what we used to say back then?
 * Jean-Luc Picard: One impossible thing at a time.

 * Absolute Candor (February 13, 2020) by Michael Chabon

 * But murder is not justice. There is no solace in revenge. You have had your humanity restored to you. Don't squander it now.
 * Stardust City Rag (February 20, 2020) by Kirsten Beyer

 * Changed? The Borg? They coolly assimilate entire civilizations, entire systems, in a matter of hours. They don't change! They metastasize.
 * The Impossible Box (February 27, 2020) by Nick Zayas

 * William Riker: That time you were flying off to Romulus, to plan the Great Supernova Rescue. Do you remember what I said?
 * Jean-Luc Picard: 'So you want to be ass-deep in Romulans for the rest of your life?'
 * William Riker: I believe I also reminded you of Newton's Fourth Law of Thermodynamics.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: No good deed goes unpunished.
 * Nepenthe (March 5, 2020) by Samantha Humphrey and Michael Chabon

 * William Riker: Classic Picard arrogance. You get to make the decisions about who gets to take the chances and who doesn't, and who's in the loop and who's out of the loop, and, naturally, it always ends up with you. And that's fine on the bridge of your starship, captain, but now you're dealing with a teenager, more or less. That can be an extremely humbling experience. Frankly, not sure you're up to it.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: Perhaps I'm not.
 * William Riker: There you go. Baby steps.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: Baby steps.
 * Nepenthe (March 5, 2020) by Samantha Humphrey and Michael Chabon

 * Kirsten Clancy: That's a hell of a report.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: And you thought I was a desperate old man. Quixotic, paranoid, possibly senile…
 * Kirsten Clancy: Let's just leave it at quixotic.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: And now the windmills have turned out to be giants.
 * Broken Pieces (March 12, 2020) by Samantha Humphrey and Michael Chabon

 * You have a past. You have a story, just waiting to be claimed.
 * Broken Pieces (March 12, 2020) by Samantha Humphrey and Michael Chabon

 * The past is written, but the future is left for us to write, and we have powerful tools, Rios: openness, optimism, and the spirit of curiosity. All they have is secrecy, and fear, and fear is the great destroyer, Rios.
 * Broken Pieces (March 12, 2020) by Samantha Humphrey and Michael Chabon

 * Data's capacity for expressing and processing emotion was limited. I suppose we had that in common.
 * Broken Pieces (March 12, 2020) by Samantha Humphrey and Michael Chabon

 * There's a difference between killing an attacking enemy and watching a wounded one die.
 * Et En Arcadia Argo, Part 1 (March 19, 2020) by Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman & Akiva Goldsman

 * One more thing. Uh, I have a brain abnormality. I've known for years. Uh, I never had any symptoms, so I never thought much about it. However, just before we left the Earth, I learned that my condition was more acute. The prognosis was terminal, and there is no effective treatment. There will be no further discussion. Anyone who treats me like a dying man will run the risk of pissing me off.
 * Et En Arcadia Argo, Part 1 (March 19, 2020) by Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman & Akiva Goldsman

 * Well, hope and the odds make poor bedfellows.
 * Et En Arcadia Argo, Part 1 (March 19, 2020) by Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman & Akiva Goldsman

 * To say you have no choice is a failure of imagination.
 * Et En Arcadia Argo, Part 2 (March 26, 2020) by Michael Chabon & Akiva Goldsman

 * But fear is an incompetent teacher.
 * Et En Arcadia Argo, Part 2 (March 26, 2020) by Michael Chabon & Akiva Goldsman

 * To be alive is a responsibility. As well as a right.
 * Et En Arcadia Argo, Part 2 (March 26, 2020) by Michael Chabon & Akiva Goldsman

 * It says a great deal about the mind of Commander Data that, looking at the human race with all its violence and corruption, willful ignorance, he could still see kindness, the immense curiosity, and greatness of spirit. And he wanted, more than anything else, to be part of that, to be part of the human family.
 * Et En Arcadia Argo, Part 2 (March 26, 2020) by Michael Chabon & Akiva Goldsman

 * Seize today for we know nothing of tomorrow.
 * The Star Gazer (March 3, 2022) by Akiva Goldsman & Terry Matalas

 * We often refer to space as the final frontier. But the older I get, the more I come to believe that the true final frontier is time. In command, as in life, what we do in crisis often weighs upon us less heavily than what we wish we had done, what could have been. Time offers many opportunities, but it rarely offers second chances. And as steps forward go I would like to acknowledge your classmate the first fully Romulan cadet at Starfleet Academy: Elnor. May you all go boldly into a future freed from the shackles of the past. I stand before you the last Picard. My ancestor captained the second ship, behind Jacques Cartier. A great-great cousin Renee Picard was instrumental in early exploration of this solar system. Yet I choose to leave you with the words of my mother, who was no explorer at all. When I was a boy she would point to the night sky and say, "Look up, Jean-Luc, and let's see what's out there".
 * The Star Gazer (March 3, 2022) by Akiva Goldsman & Terry Matalas

 * We cannot live in this reality. If we want to save the future, then we have to repair the past.
 * Penance (March 3, 2022) by Akiva Goldsman & Terry Matalas and Christopher Monfette (Teleplay) as well as by Michael Chabon and Akiva Goldsman & Terry Matalas and Christopher Monfette (Story)

 * Agnes Jurati: It’s only a partial assimilation.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: Halfway to hell is still not a recommended destination.

 * Assimilation (March 17, 2022) by Kiley Rossetter & Christopher Monfette. See also: The middle of Youtube Video "Jurati Connecting To The Borg Queen | Star Trek Picard S02E03" (19.03.2022) by user "Star Trek Friendly".

 * Distance offers no protection from time.
 * Watcher (March 24, 2022) by Juliana James & Jane Maggs (Teleplay) as well as by Travis Fickett & Juliana James (Story)

 * History’s darkest moments can be a tipping point for change.
 * Watcher (March 24, 2022) by Juliana James & Jane Maggs (Teleplay) as well as by Travis Fickett & Juliana James (Story)

 * Guinan! Don't leave the Earth just yet. I know you're done with listening, but you're not done with humanity. Change always comes later than we think it should.
 * Watcher (March 24, 2022) by Juliana James & Jane Maggs (Teleplay) as well as by Travis Fickett & Juliana James (Story)

 * Renée Picard:: Sometimes, fear is a friendly reminder you're not ready for something.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: No! Fear is fear. It doesn't speak in riddles. Fear means you're smart. You understand the risks.
 * Two of One (April 7, 2022) by Cindy Appel & Jane Maggs

 * I've found that even in the darkest circumstances, there is a light. Sometimes only a glimmer. Trust that light. Find a way back. No matter what it takes.
 * Two of One (April 7, 2022) by Cindy Appel & Jane Maggs

 * Or the promise of legacy revealed the rot that is hidden underneath it.
 * Hide and Seek (April 28, 2022) by Matt Okumura & Chris Derrick

 * There are moments in time we wish we could travel back to. Memories. Pieces of life better lived in reverse. In those moments, tragic endings might rewind into joyful beginnings. Moments of loss into those of gains. I remember now, in a cloudy moment of extreme melancholy, my mother hung herself here in this place. And for all I've lived, all I've seen and done, I suppose this is the moment I've kept myself from remembering, this moment I am so powerless to reverse. My mother was ill, I'm told, but I only ever thought she was inspired. That night, my father had locked her into her room for her own safety. Perhaps for mine, as well. But she begged me to help her, told me how much she needed me, how much she needed my help. And this is the part I've spent my whole life trying not to remember. I thought I was saving her. So, after he fell asleep, I let her out, you see. If only I had left that door closed, she might have become an old woman. I used to imagine seeing her older, offering me a cup of tea and asking for a chat. This skeleton key migrated all over the house. I wish, that day, it hadn't ended up in my hand. I loved her. Desperately.
 * Hide and Seek (April 28, 2022) by Matt Okumura & Chris Derrick

 * I refuse to accept an outcome that has not yet occurred. Come. We have work to do.
 * Hide and Seek (April 28, 2022) by Matt Okumura & Chris Derrick

 * Make a good future.
 * Farewell (May 5, 2022) by Christopher Monfette and Akiva Goldsman

 * There are moments in our lives we fear to relive and others we long to repeat. While time cannot give us second chances, maybe people can.
 * Farewell (May 5, 2022) by Christopher Monfette and Akiva Goldsman

 * Y’know, there will be a time when you will need to remember that no matter how bleak or unwinnable a situation, as long as you and your crew remain steadfast in your dedication, one to another, you are never ever without hope.
 * No Win Scenario (March 9, 2023) by Terry Matalas & Sean Tretta

 * You’re only ever really as good as those around you. Your crew become a part of you. Complete you. They lift you up to accomplish the things you never could do alone.
 * No Win Scenario (March 9, 2023) by Terry Matalas & Sean Tretta

 * Fate has a way of surprising us.
 * The Bounty (March 23, 2023) by Christopher Monfette

 * You don't leave the doors open if you want to keep the wolves out.
 * The Last Generation (April 20, 2023) by Terry Matalas

 * There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
 * The Last Generation (April 20, 2023) by Terry Matalas. Picard is quoting Brutus from Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene iii. See also: The middle of Youtube Video "Star Trek Picard 3x10 Last Scene Season 3" (20.04.2023) by user "Dope Acting Scenes".

 * William Riker: Hope you're feeling lucky, Jean-Luc.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: You know, Will, I've come to believe that the stars have always been in my favor.
 * The Last Generation (April 20, 2023) by Terry Matalas

Quotes about Picard

 * Alphabetized by author

 * Jean-Luc Picard taught me how to speak. I’m pretty sure that I already knew how to say words by the time that I was watching ‘’Star Trek: The Next Generation’’ with my parents, but Patrick Stewart’s captain is how I remember learning that words and communication are noble and important. That you can be strong without imposing yourself physically on others. That making an effort to unite yourself with other people is powerful as well as merely desirable.
 * George Ankers, “50 years on, we need Star Trek’s optimism more than ever”, Medium, (Jul 27, 2016)

 * Captain Picard, is the exact opposite of a Hollywood action-hero.
 * Dirk Baecker, in Inclusion/ Exclusiom (2002), p. 76

 * Jean-Luc Picard! Chief contact with the Q Continuum. Arbiter of succession for the Klingon Empire. Savior of Earth from Borg invasion. Captain of the Enterprises D and E. The man even worked alongside the great Spock.
 * Emergency Hologram (EMH) playbed by Santiago Cabrera in the Star Trek: Picard episode The End is the Beginning (February 6, 2020) written by Michael Chabon & Akiva Goldsman

 * Captain Picard is the hero we need right now. He exemplifies in some ways even more then James Kirk—and I’m not gonna get into the Kirk vs Picard argument because I love Captain Kirk, he was my first captain—but Picard is even more of an exemplar of everything that is best about Star Trek’s vision for the future.
 * Michael Chabon, "Captain Picard is the hero we need, says Star Trek writer Michael Chabon", by Richard Trenholm, CNET, (11/7/2018); as quoted in "Michael Chabon on Honoring Star Trek Canon and How Picard Is 'The Hero We Need Right Now'", by Beth Elderkin, IO9, (11/9/2018).

 * K'mpec: After I die, you will act in my name to arbitrate the struggle for power.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: I will?
 * K'mpec: No one on the Council can be trusted, and I have my reasons for wanting an outsider.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: K'mpec, you cannot possibly be serious. A Federation officer has no business in ...
 * K'mpec: Nonsense. You are an accomplished mediator. This is no different than any other dispute requiring your services.
 * Klingon Chancellor K'mpec (Charles Cooper) in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Reunion (November 5, 1990), Story by Drew Deighan, Thomas Perry and Jo Perry as well as teleplay by Thomas Perry, Jo Perry, Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga. See also: The middle of Youtube Video "A Klingon Who Kills Without Showing His Face Has No Honour" (13.08.2021) by user "tjwparso".

 * Picard stands as the bearer of Starfleet's conscience and an exemplar of moral autonomy.
 * Kevin Decker and Jason Eberl Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant (2008), p. 141

 * Captain Picard is perceived to be a gentler soul than Captain Kirk.
 * Marc Dipaol, in War, Politics and Superheroes : Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film (2011), p. 30

 * When I was in middle school and watching “Star Trek” I imagined we were moving closer toward the show’s version of the future: egalitarian, democratic, creative. Now when I watch the show, I vacillate between hope and escapism. I want to believe that “Star Trek” is predictive of how things will turn out for humanity. I want us to wander the universe in brightly colored uniforms, listening to operas sung by sentient robots. I hope we will find our way to peace. But if that’s not what the future holds, if it’s more war and injustice and greed that we’re headed for, then all I want is to watch Captain Picard hold court on the bridge one more time.
 * Miriam Francisco, “The optimism of ‘Star Trek’”, Michigan Daily, (September 16, 2019)

 * The new captain of the Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard, is the wise man. He rules the Enterprise with a sagely wisdom.
 * Pallab Ghosh, in "Klingons on the Starship Bow" in New Scientist Vo. 117, issue 1605 (24 March 1988), p. 63

 * As shown in his speech and actions, Picard is a man of intelligence, courage, integrity, compassion, courtesy.
 * Mark Jancovich and James Lyons, in Quality Popular Television : Cult TV, The Industry and Fans (2003), p. 111

 * Patrick Stewart's identification with Jean-Luc Picard is a prime exemplar of the extreme entanglement between actor and character produced by cult television programs, yet in Stewart's case this entanglement has not precluded a very active and successful post-Star Trek career.
 * Sara Gwenllian-Jones and Roberta E. Pearson, in Cult Television (2004), p. 65

 * Jean-Luc Picard: [waking up after the operation] What the hell are *you* doing here?
 * Kate Pulaski: Saving your life.
 * Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, come on. This is a routine procedure - quite commonplace.
 * Kate Pulaski: True. But you are not a commonplace man.
 * "Samaritan Snare" (15 May 1989) by Robert L. McCullough

 * Those ... who are familiar with the character Captain Picard, already know him to be the leader that we all wish we worked for, whose leadership gives us confidence and comfort in meeting the challenges we face each and every day, and the type of leader that we should strive to become.
 * Wess Roberts and Bill Ross in Make It So : Leadership Lessons from Star Trek, The Next Generation (1995), p. xi

 * Picard and his crew were all human carbon copies of Spock—even-keeled, rational, and almost impossibly ethical. (Spock himself says so of Picard in “Unification,” the one “Next Generation” episode in which he appears.) That left little room for identification. You could aspire to be more like Picard, the very model of compassion and culture, but you could never truly understand his moral universe. He was nothing like us twenty-first-century humans. He was too alien.
 * Manu Saadia, “The Enduring Lessons of “Star Trek””, The New Yorker, (September 8, 2016).

 * William T. Riker: Wes, responsibility and authority go hand in hand. I know you're responsible, now we've got to teach you a little bit of authority. One of the reasons you've been given command is so you can make a few right decisions, that will establish a pattern of success and help build self-confidence. If you don't trust your own judgment, you don't belong in the command chair.
 * Wesley Crusher: But what if I'm wrong?
 * William T. Riker: Then you're wrong. It's arrogant to think you'll never make a mistake.
 * Wesley Crusher: But what if it's something really important. I mean, not just a mineral survey. What if someone dies because I made a mistake?
 * William T. Riker: In your position, it's important to ask yourself one question. What would Picard do?
 * Wesley Crusher: He'd listen to everyone's opinion, then make his own decision. But he's Captain Picard.
 * "Pen Pals" (1 May 1989) by Hannah Louise Shearer

 * He intrigues me, this Picard. Remarkably analytical and dispassionate, for a human. I understand why my father chose to mind-meld with him. There's almost a Vulcan quality to the man.
 * Spock playbed by Leonard Nimoy in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Unification Part 2 (November 11, 1994), story by by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, teleplay by	Michael Piller. See also: Beginning of Youtube Video "Ambassador Spock and Lt. Commander Data Talk" (10.04.2019) by user "April 5, 2063".

 * The bridge of the Enterprise, under the moderate and controlled command of Captain Picard, is a locus of "enlightened understanding."
 * Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Freakery: cultural spectacles of the extraordinary body (1996), p. 334

 * The new captain, Jean-Luc Picard, was French and enjoyed reading, classical music, William Shakespeare, archaeology, and theatre.
 * Gary Westfahl, in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy : Themes, Works, and Wonders (2005) Vol. 3, p. 1264

 * Captain Picard is not the swashbuckler that Captain Kirk was.
 * Grace Lee Whitney, Jim Denney, and Leonard Nimoy in The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy (1998), p. 81

Ever thought was hard Was do I like Kirk, Or do I like Picard?
 * Only question I
 * Weird Al Yankovic, "White & Nerdy", Straight Outta Lynwood (2006)

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Inner peace

Inner peace refers to a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress. Being "at peace" with oneself and the cosmos is considered by many to be healthy (homeostasis) and the opposite of being stressed or anxious.

Quotes

 * As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense-world into the sea of peace that is the sage.
 * Bhagavad Gita 2.70.

 * May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
 * The Bible, Numbers 6:26.

 * What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.
 * [[Inner Peace Quotes|Inner Peace Zone]], Numbers 8:28.

 * This is peace, this is the excellent, namely the calm of all the impulses, the casting out of all "basis", the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping, Nirvana.
 * Gautama Buddha, Anguttara Nikaya, v.322, as quoted in World Scripture : A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts (1991) edited by Andrew Wilson, p. 392.

 * Peace is peaceful.
 * "The Dude" in The Big Lebowski.

 * Know thyself.
 * Anonymous aphorism inscribed in the forecourt of Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where the Pythia prophesied; often misattributed to Socrates, who quoted it.

 * If a man sings of God and hears of Him, And lets love of God sprout within him, All his sorrows shall vanish, And in his mind, God will bestow abiding peace.
 * Guru Granth Sahib, Japuji 5, M.1, p. 2.

 * The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace, genuine world peace can be achieved. In this the importance of individual responsibility is quite clear; an atmosphere of peace must first be created within ourselves, then gradually expanded to include our families, our communities, and ultimately the whole planet.
 * Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, as quoted in Inner Peace, World Peace : Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence (1992) by Kenneth Kraft, p. 2.

 * Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
 * Jesus Christ, as quoted in John 14:27 (KJV)
 * Variant translation: Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
 * (NIV).

 * The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.
 * Sir Arthur Keith, (sometimes wrongfully cited as Sir Arthur Kent), as quoted in Living Philosophies (1931), published by Simon and Schuster, Ch. X, p. 147.

 * In the remembrance of God do hearts find satisfaction.
 * Qur'an 13:28.

 * We talk about world peace. Peace needs to be in the heart of every human being because that is where it belongs.
 * Maharaji (Prem Rawat), address in Wembley Stadium, England, (22 June 1997).

 * Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
 * Eleanor Roosevelt, as quoted in The Life You Were Born to Live : A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose (1995) by Dan Millman, p. 38.

 * I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
 * "Wolsey" in Henry VIII (c. 1613) by William Shakespeare
 * Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
 * Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now (1997)

 * The Buddha taught that even your happiness is dukkha -a Pali word meaning "suffering" or "unsatisfactoriness." It is inseparable from its opposite. This means that your happiness and unhappiness are in fact one. Only the illusion of time separates them. This is not being negative. It is simply recognizing the nature of things, so that you don't pursue an illusion for the rest of your life. p. 117
 * Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now (1997)

 * The whole advertising industry and consumer society would collapse if people became enlightened and no longer sought to find their identity through things. The more you seek happiness in this way, the more it will elude you. p. 118
 * Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now (1997)

 * I have learned to offer no resistance to what is; I have learned to allow the present moment to be and to accept the impermanent nature of all things and conditions. Thus have I found peace.  To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them - while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease.The happiness that is derived from some secondary source is never very deep. It is only a pale reflection of the joy of Being, the vibrant peace that you find within as you enter the state of nonresistance. Being takes you beyond the polar opposites of the mind and frees you from dependency on form. Even if everything were to collapse and crumble all around you, you would still feel a deep inner core of peace. You may not be happy, but you will be at peace.
 * Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now (1997)

 * This is the Spirit of Infinite Peace, and the moment we come into harmony with it there comes to us an inflowing tide of peace, for peace is harmony. A deep interior meaning underlies the great truth, "To be spiritually minded is life and peace." To recognize the fact that we are spirit, and to live in this thought, is to be spiritually minded, and so to be in harmony and peace. Oh, the thousands of men and women all about us weary with care, troubled and ill at ease, running hither and thither to find peace, weary in body, soul, and mind; going to other countries, traveling the world over, coming back, and still not finding it. Of course they have not found it and they never will find it in this way, because they are looking for it where it is not. They are looking for it without when they should look within. Peace is to be found only within, and unless one find it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul. We may travel over many different avenues in pursuit of it, we may seek it through the channels of the bodily appetites and passions, we may seek it through all the channels of the external, we may chase for it hither and thither, but it will always be just beyond our grasp, because we are searching for it where it is not.
 * Ralph Waldo Trine, In Tune With The Infinite : Or, Fullness Of Peace, Power And Plenty (1910), p. 135.

 * To be at one with God is to be at peace. The child simplicity is the greatest agency in bringing this full and complete realization, the child simplicity that recognizes its true relations with the Father's life. There are people I know who have come into such a conscious realization of their oneness with this Infinite Life, this Spirit of Infinite Peace, that their lives are fairly bubbling over with joy.
 * Ralph Waldo Trine, In Tune With The Infinite : Or, Fullness Of Peace, Power And Plenty (1910), p. 136.

 * Peace: Real peace always comes from within. Without the practice of insight meditation and universal brotherhood, the inner peace cannot last long and our existence would be threatened.
 * Thích Nhật Từ, Inner Freedom: A Spiritual Journey for Prison Inmates (2008), ISBN 1741893909.

 * Men do not mirror themselves in running water, they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
 * Zhuangzi, Ch. 5

Disputed

 * What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.
 * Attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Promotion of Pharmaceuticals : Issues, Trends, Options (1993) by Dev S. Pathak, Alan Escovitz, and Suzan Kucukarslan, p. 74, and to Henry David Thoreau, The Life You Were Born to Live : A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose (1995) by Dan Millman, p. xi, but no occurrence of it prior to the 1990s has been located.

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