WIST Quotations

Shaftesbury, Earl of -- Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, Vol. 1, “A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm” (1711)

Dave — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:21:07 +0000

We may have an excellent Ear in Musick, without being able to perform in any kind. We may judge well of Poetry, without being Poets, or possessing the least of a Poetick Vein: But we can have no tolerable Notion of Goodness, without being tolerably good.

Anthony Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) English politician and philosopher
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, Vol. 1, “A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm” (1711)

Szasz, Thomas -- Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry, Epilogue (1963)

Dave — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:43:00 +0000

An individual is the end product of the decisions he has made. He who fails to make decisions, for the consequences of which he is responsible, is not a person. The ego, the self, the personality — call it what you will — comes into being and grows through the process of making responsible decisions.

Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) Hungarian-American psychiatrist, educator
Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry, Epilogue (1963)

Tolkien, J.R.R. -- The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 2: The Two Towers, Book 3, ch. 2 “The Riders of Rohan” [Eomer and Aragorn] (1954)

Dave — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:11:39 +0000

“How shall a man judge what to do in such times?”
“As he ever has judged,” said Aragorn. “Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves, and another among Men. It is a man’s part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.”

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) English writer, fabulist, philologist, academic [John Ronald Reuel Tolkien]
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 2: The Two Towers, Book 3, ch. 2 “The Riders of Rohan” [Eomer and Aragorn] (1954)
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~Other -- Byron J. Langenfeld

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.

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Byron J. Langenfeld