# May 2

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2004

    I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
   * selected by Kalki

## 2005

    You know more than you think you do. ~ Benjamin Spock (born 2 May 1903)
   * selected by Kalki

## 2006

    We are near waking when we dream that we dream. ~ Novalis (born 2 May 1772)
   * selected by Kalki

## 2007

    Love works magic. It is the final purpose Of the world story, The Amen of the universe. ~ Novalis ~
   * selected by Kalki

## 2008

    Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. ~ Novalis
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2009

    We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the Universe. ~ Jerome K. Jerome (born 2 May 1859)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2010

    Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world. ~ Novalis
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2011

    Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word Liberty entire nations. ~ Novalis
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2012

    True anarchy is the generative element of religion. Out of the annihilation of every positive element she lifts her gloriously radiant countenance as the founder of a new world… ~ Novalis
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2013

* Moral Action is that great and only Experiment, in which all riddles of the most manifold appearances explain themselves. Whoso understands it, and in rigid sequence of Thought can lay it open, is forever master of Nature.
* ~ Novalis ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2014

* Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
* ~ Novalis ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2015

* In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
* ~ Gospel of John ~ as translated in the ~ King James Version ~
   * proposed by Kalki — a passage from the King James Version of the Christian Bible, the 2nd of May being selected by the 400th anniversary committee as the official anniversary day of celebration in 2011, though the exact date of publication in 1611 is unknown.
2016
* No explanation is required for Holy Writing. Whoso speaks truly is full of eternal life, and wonderfully related to genuine mysteries does his Writing appear to us, for it is a Concord from the Symphony of the Universe.
* ~ Novalis ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
* ~ Novalis ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2018

* The Art of a well-developed genius is far different from the Artfulness of the Understanding, of the merely reasoning mind. Shakspeare was no calculator, no learned thinker; he was a mighty, many-gifted soul, whose feelings and works, like products of Nature, bear the stamp of the same spirit; and in which the last and deepest of observers will still find new harmonies with the infinite structure of the Universe; concurrences with later ideas, affinities with the higher powers and senses of man. They are emblematic, have many meanings, are simple and inexhaustible, like products of Nature; and nothing more unsuitable could be said of them than that they are works of Art, in that narrow mechanical acceptation of the word.
* ~ Novalis ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2019

* There is but one Temple in the World; and that is the Body of Man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch Heaven, when we lay our hand on a human body.
* ~ Novalis ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions. But their adverse opinion does carry some weight and can do great harm to a new project — at least until the innovation is strong enough to push the "realists" and their moldy notions aside.
* ~ Theodor Herzl ~
   * proposed by InvisibleSun

## 2021

* Philosophy is properly Home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
* ~ Novalis ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* Our delegation traveled to Kyiv to send an unmistakable and resounding message to the entire world: America stands firmly with Ukraine.
* ~ Nancy Pelosi ~
   * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks regarding the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

## 2023

* I don't know what's right and what's real anymore And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore And when do you think it will all become clear? 'Cause I'm being taken over by the fear.
* ~ Lily Allen ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2024

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## Suggestions

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. ~ Benjamin Spock (born 2 May 1903)
* 3 because all children need some form of guidance. Tarzan and Mowgli have nice stories but they aren't the best characteristic transformations to be had. Zarbon 15:22, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
* 3 InvisibleSun 07:07, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
* 2 Kalki 12:42, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ~ Jerome K. Jerome (born May 2, 1859)
* 3 InvisibleSun 07:07, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
* 2 Zarbon 04:37, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
* 3 Kalki 16:07, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
* 3 Ningauble 17:21, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
* Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
* ~ Novalis ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
* Where children are, there is a golden age.
* ~ Novalis ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
* Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
* ~ Novalis ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
* The true philosophical Act is annihilation of self (Selbsttodtung); this is the real beginning of all Philosophy; all requisites for being a Disciple of Philosophy point hither. This Act alone corresponds to all the conditions and characteristics of transcendental conduct.
* ~ Novalis ~
* 4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:59, 1 May 2024 (UTC) 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 1 May 2016 (UTC)