# February 15

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2005

    All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ~ Galileo Galilei (born 15 February 1564)
   * selected by Kalki

## 2006

    I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use. ~ Galileo Galilei (born 15 February 1564)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2007

    The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires. ~ Susan B. Anthony (born 15 February 1920)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2008

    Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. ~ U.S. Congressman Abraham Lincoln, 15 February 1848 letter to William H. Herndon, opposing the Mexican-American War
   * proposed by Jeff Q

## 2009

    Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. ~ Susan B. Anthony (born 15 February 1920)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2010

    A religious education is an education which inculcates duty and reverence. Duty arises from our potential control over the course of events. Where attainable knowledge could have changed the issue, ignorance has the guilt of vice. And the foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity. ~ Alfred North Whitehead (born 15 February 1861)
   * proposed by InvisibleSun

## 2011

    Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
   * proposed by InvisibleSun

## 2012

    I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." ~ Susan B. Anthony ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2013

* It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
* ~ Alfred North Whitehead ~

## 2014

* Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it is really worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.
* ~ Miranda July ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2015

* Life feels both sad and dark and confusing and more than hopeful — it feels like something totally incredible could happen at any moment and with no explanation.
* ~ Miranda July ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2016

* Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; "for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost" is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith.
* ~ Antonin Scalia ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* I guess my favorite thing in the world is when I look at a piece of art, or read a story, or watch a movie where I walk away feeling like "Oh my god — I have to do something, I have to make something or talk to someone — things are not the same anymore" — and so I try to make work where you come away with that feeling. It's like, yeah, you're thinking about what you just saw, but even more than that — you feel able, you feel like, kind of propelled.
* ~ Miranda July ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2018

* One half of the people of this Nation today are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and just one.
* ~ Susan B. Anthony ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2019

* What I like best is the kind of complicated messed up truth, you know … the one that's so imperfect that you know it's true.
* ~ Miranda July ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* People think that foot pain is a fact of life, but life is actually better than that.
* ~ Miranda July ~ in ~ Me and You and Everyone We Know ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2021

* America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
* ~ Daniel Webster ~
:* proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* I’m totally not kidding … Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.
* ~ Miranda July ~

## 2023

* It always seems to me extreme rashness on the part of some when they want to make human abilities the measure of what nature can do. On the contrary, there is not a single effect in nature, even the least that exists, such that the most ingenious theorists can arrive at a complete understanding of it. This vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.
* ~ Galileo Galilei ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2024

* So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century. Yet the chief impetus to the foundation of universities came after that date, and in more recent times has even increased. The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.
* ~ Alfred North Whitehead ~
   * proposed by InvisibleSun

## 2025

* Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful. Except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it. Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.
* ~ Miranda July ~
   * proposed by Kalki

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## Suggestions

    Possibly quotes relating to wolves, Faunus, or Pan for the last day of Lupercalia
If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever. ~ Doug Horton
* proposed by user Sir John Alexander Macdonald
* 1 Kalki 22:55, 14 February 2006 (UTC) The bulk of the quote derives from a well known proverb of the sixties that I doubt originated with Horton.
* 1 Zarbon 22:23, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
* I pretended that I was pausing before telling him about the secret feeling of joy that I hide in my chest, waiting, waiting, waiting for someone to notice that I rise each morning seemingly with nothing to live for, but I do rise, and it is only because of this secret joy, God's love, in my chest. I looked down from the sky and into his eyes and I said, It wasn't your fault. I excused him for the cover and for everything else. For not yet being a New Man. We fell into silence then; he did not ask me any more questions. I was still happy to sit there beside him, but that is only because I have very, very low expectations of most people, and he had now become Most People.
* ~ Miranda July ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:31, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
* They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love and they worked together to fill these rooms with high-end, consumer-grade equipment. It was a tight situation. The next sudden move would have to be through the wall.
* ~ Miranda July ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:31, 12 February 2014 (UTC)