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I wanted to live deep and suck out all the
marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout
all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive
life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it
proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of
it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to
know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it. Henry David Thoreau, American writer, born July 12, 1817; 'Where I Lived, and What I Lived For', Walden; or, Life in the Woods Our
life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. I
do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as
chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my
neighbors up. If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let
him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. He
is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and
exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Henry David Thoreau; ibid, Ch. 1, 'Economy' |
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Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no
miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your
head.
Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not
only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple
and meagre life than the poor.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which
these things would be by me unavoidable.
Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where
they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
It takes two to speak truth – One to
speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances
confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life
which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Many go fishing all their
lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau
He is a singular character – a young man
with much of wild original nature remaining in him; and so far as he
is sophisticated, it is in a way and method of his own. He is ugly as
sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and somewhat rustic,
although courteous manners, corresponding very well with such an
exterior. But his ugliness is of an honest and agreeable fashion, and
becomes him much better than beauty.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne, American writer, on Thoreau
Henry David
Thoreau quotes
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
R Buckminster Fuller, visionary scientist, born on July 12, 1895
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R Buckminster Fuller
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R Buckminster Fuller
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R Buckminster Fuller
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R Buckminster Fuller
The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
R Buckminster Fuller
Dare to be naïve.
R Buckminster Fuller
Don't fight forces, use them.
R Buckminster Fuller; Shelter,
1932
God is a verb.
R Buckminster Fuller; No
More Secondhand God, 1963
Thinking is a momentary dismissal of
irrelevancies.
R Buckminster Fuller; Utopia
or Oblivion: The Prospects of Humanity, 1969
I live on Earth at present, and I don't know
what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I
seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the
universe.
R Buckminster Fuller; I
Seem to Be a Verb, 1970
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly
metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself
swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid
extinction.
R Buckminster Fuller; Synergetics
2: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, 1975
R Buckminster Fuller; interview, April
30, 1978
I set about fifty-five years ago [1927] to see
what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and
newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
…
R Buckminster Fuller; Crunch of Giants, 1983
When blimp photographs are taken of giant
stadia packed full of rock-concert or football fans, we get an idea of
what 100,000 people look like. We all think of Hiroshima as the worst
single killing of humans by humans. That was about a
75,000-capacity-coliseum-full. Each day of each year, year after year, a
75,000-capacity-stadiumfull of around-the-world humans perish from
starvation or its side effects, despite an annual average 5-percent world
food-production overage of the amount of food adequate for the total
world's population. This daily kill of innocents dwarfs the awful
Auschwitz killing.
R Buckminster Fuller; ibid
Corporations are neither physical nor
metaphysical phenomena. They are socioeconomic ploys – legally enacted
game-playing – agreed upon only between overwhelmingly powerful
socioeconomic individuals and by them imposed upon human society and its
all unwitting members.
R Buckminster Fuller; ibid
July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years)
of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 172 days remaining.
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Feast day of St Veronica
St Veronica derives from a
late-medieval legend. She was supposedly a woman of Jerusalem; when Jesus
Christ
passed carrying the cross on
his way to Golgotha,
she wiped his face of sweat and blood with her veil (or a towel). His
image stayed on the cloth, which became Vera-Icon (Latin: true image)
and is still a relic at St Peter's
Basilica in Rome. She thus became 'St Veronica', although her name
may come from the Latin for veil, vernicula, suggesting that the
story preceded the naming of her.
A variant of the name 'Veronica' is Berenice, who, by tradition, was the (Biblically unnamed) woman with a 12-year-long "issue of blood", cured by Jesus at Capernaum (Mark 5:26). This traditional connection with Veronica no doubt came from the ill woman's faith that by merely touching the hem of Jesus' garment, she would be cured.
In bullfighting the most classic movement with
the cape is called Veronica, as
the cape is swung slowly before the face of the beast, like Veronica's
wiping of Christ's face.
Appropriately, Veronica is the patron of laundry workers, and photographers.
Has Veronica's Veil Been Found? Relic Found in Monastery"From the Middle Ages were supposedly miraculous portraits of Jesus that came to be known as 'Veronicas.' … Although the 'veronicas' were supposedly miraculous, they were in fact painted. To explain how there could be so many of the 'original,' another legend was created to explain that the image could duplicate itself miraculously." Source
"The Veronica tradition actually derives from an earlier one dating to the fourth century, that Jesus had once sent a miraculous self-portrait to King Abgar of Edessa. Some even attempt to equate this image of Edessa with the Shroud of Turin, although the former was a face-only portrait of the living Jesus, and the latter a front-and-back body image of the crucified Christ." Source
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