# March 10

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2004

    Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Carl Jung
   * selected by Kalki

## 2005

    A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses. ~ Eric Berne
   * selected by Kalki

## 2006

    All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. ~ Kate Sheppard (born 10 March 1847)
   * selected by Kalki

## 2007

    I'm not aware of too many things. I know what I know if you know what I mean. ~ Edie Brickell ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2008

    We are tired of having a "sphere" doled out to us, and of being told that anything outside that sphere is "unwomanly". We want to be natural just for a change … we must be ourselves at all risks. ~ Kate Sheppard
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2009

    In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not. ~ Joaquin Miller ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2010

    I don't believe in hatred anymore. I hate to think of how it felt before When anger overwhelms your very soul It's hard to realize you'll ever know Love like we do. ~ Edie Brickell ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2011

    Where storm-born shadows hide and hunt I knew thee, in thy glorious youth, And loved thy vast face, white as truth; I stood where thunderbolts were wont To smite thy Titan-fashioned front, And heard dark mountains rock and roll; I saw the lightning's gleaming rod Reach forth and write on heaven's scroll The awful autograph of God! ~ Joaquin Miller ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2012

    Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. ~ Anonymous
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2013

* Let justice be done, though the world perish.
* ~ Ferdinand I ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2014

* What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?
* ~ Edie Brickell ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2015

* Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2016

* I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all was down in de old cabin quarter, wid de ole folks, and my brudders and sisters. But to dis solemn resolution I came; I was free, and dey should be free also; I would make a home for dem in de North, and de Lord helping me, I would bring dem all dere. Oh, how I prayed den, lying all alone on de cold, damp ground; "Oh, dear Lord," I said, "I haint got no friend but you. Come to my help, Lord, for I'm in trouble!"
* ~ Harriet Tubman ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* If there is an invisible church, then it is of the great paradox, which is inseparable from morality, and which must be distinguished from the merely philosophical. People who are so eccentric that they are completely serious in being and becoming virtuous understand one another in everything, find one another easily, and form a silent opposition against the prevailing immorality that pretends to be morality. A certain mysticism of expression, which joined with romantic fantasy and grammatical understanding, can be something charming and good, often serves as a symbol of their beautiful secrets.
* ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2018

* People who are eccentric enough to be quite seriously virtuous understand each other everywhere, discover each other easily, and form a silent opposition to the ruling immorality that happens to pass for morality.
* ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2019

* Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
* ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* Search not to find how other men offend, But by that glass thy own offences mend; Still seek to learn, yet care not much from whom, (So it be learning) or from whence it come. Of thy own actions, others' judgments learn; Often by small, great matters we discern: Youth what man's age is like to be doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
* ~ John Denham ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2021

* Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* What happened just over a week ago was impossible to believe. Our country was peaceful; our cities, towns, and villages were full of life. On February 24th, we all woke up to the announcement of a Russian invasion. Tanks crossed the Ukrainian border, planes entered our airspace, missile launchers surrounded our cities. Despite assurances from Kremlin-backed propaganda outlets, who call this a "special operation" — it is, in fact, the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians.
* ~ Olena Zelenska ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2023

* The mind understands something only insofar as it absorbs it like a seed into itself, nurtures it, and lets it grow into blossom and fruit. Therefore scatter holy seeds into the soil of the spirit.
* ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2024

* The artist should have as little desire to rule as to serve. He can only create, do nothing but create, and so help the state only by … exalting politicians and economists into artists.
* ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2025

* One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2026

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## Suggestions

Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave. ~ Edie Brickell ~
* 3 Kalki 01:17, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
* 3 InvisibleSun 20:33, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
* 1 Zarbon 04:14, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
* 2 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep. ~ Edie Brickell
* 2 Zarbon 16:26, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
* 1 Kalki 08:05, 7 March 2009 (UTC) interesting line, but in some ways not clearly indicative of the full point of the song.
* 2 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few but such as cannot write, translate. ~ John Denham (date of birth unknown/date of death)
* 3 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:02, 2 March 2011 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. ~ John Denham
* 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Search not to find what lies too deeply hid, Nor to know things, whose knowledge is forbid. ~ John Denham
* 3 or in other words, don't mess with what you shouldn't. Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 2 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain. ~ John Denham
* 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 2 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 2 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
The very clouds have wept and died And only God is in the sky. ~ Joaquin Miller
* 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.
Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh! ~ Harriet Tubman (date of birth unknown/date of death)
* 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
* 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education. ~ Friedrich Schlegel (born 1772 March 10)
* 3 bystander (talk) 23:57, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:32, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
In the same way as philosophy loses sight of its true object and appropriate matter, when either it passes into and merges in theology, or meddles with external politics, so also does it mar its proper form when it attempts to mimic the rigorous method of mathematics. ~ Friedrich Schlegel
* 3 bystander (talk) 23:57, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
* 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:32, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. ~ Friedrich Schlegel
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:32, 6 March 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
True virtue is genius. ~ Friedrich Schlegel
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 19:32, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
* Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
* Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
* Expect nothing more from philosophy than a voice, language and grammar of the instinct for Godliness that lies at its origin, and, essentially, is philosophy itself.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
* Whatever can be done while poetry and philosophy are separated has been done and accomplished. So the time has come to unite the two.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
* Do not waste your faith and love on the political world, but, in the divine world of science and art, offer up your inmost being in a fiery stream of eternal creation.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
* Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
* Criticism is the sole surrogate of the moral mathematics and science of propriety which so many philosophers have sought for in vain because it is impossible to find.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* The author, who wants to set philosophy and social life in report, must learn from society how to raise the decorum of convention to the level of natural propriety.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* A respect for mathematics and a falling back to common sense are the diagnostic symptoms of quasi-genuine skepticism.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* As a temporary condition skepticism is logical insurrection; as a system it is anarchy.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* To become God, to be human, to cultivate oneself are all expressions that mean the same thing.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* To devote oneself exclusively to developing some original instinct is as good and wise as the best and noblest task a man can choose to make the business of his life.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* The dull person judges all other people like people but treats them like things, and is absolutely incapable of understanding that they are human beings distinct from himself.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* Morality has always had a difficult time of it; utility and legality even begrudge the fact of its existence.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* The first impulse of morality is to oppose positive legality and conventional justice.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* There are as many gods as there are ideals. And further, the relation of the true artist and the true human being to his ideals is absolutely religious. The man for whom this inner divine service is the end and occupation of all his life is a priest, and this is how everyone can and should become a priest.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* Thou shalt not make unto thee any ideal, neither of an angel in heaven, nor of a hero in a poem or novel, nor one that is dreamed up or imagined: rather shalt thou love a man as he is.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* There are law-abiding and agreeable people who think and talk about humanity and life as if they were discussing the best way of breeding sheep, or buying and selling land. These are the economists of morality, and really all morality without philosophy, no matter how sophisticated and sublimely poetical, always retains a certain intolerant and economical hue. Some economists are fond of building, others prefer to patch things up, or always have to be getting something, or drift as the stream carries them, or make a try at everything and hold on wherever they can, or put things in order and divide things up neatly, or watch how it’s done and imitate it.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* All genres are good, says Voltaire, except the one that’s boring.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* Since nature and man contradict each other so often and so sharply, philosophy perhaps can’t avoid doing the same.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* To freely relinquish first one and then another part of one’s being, and then confine oneself entirely to a third; to seek and find now in this, now in that individual the be-all and end-all of existence, and intentionally forget everything else: of this only a mind is capable that contains within itself a whole system of persons, and in whose inner being the universe which, as they say, should germinate in every monad, has grown to fullness and maturity.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* There is a material, enthusiastic rhetoric that is infinitely superior to the sophistic abuse of philosophy, the declamatory stylistic exercise, the applied poetry, the improvised politics, that commonly go by the name. The aim of this rhetoric is to realize philosophy practically and to defeat practical unphilosophy and antiphilosophy not just dialectically, but really annihilate it.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* There are people whose whole life consists in always saying no. It would be no small accomplishment to be able to say no properly, but whoever can do no more, surely cannot do so properly. The taste of these nay-sayers is like an efficient pair of scissors for pruning the extremities of genius; their enlightenment is like a great candle-snuffer for the flame of enthusiasm and their reason a mild laxative against immoderate pleasure and love.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* There are unavoidable situations and relationships that one can tolerate only by transforming them by some courageous act of the will and seeing them as pure poetry. It follows that all cultivated people should be capable of being poets if they have to be; and from this we can deduce equally well that man is by nature a poet.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)
* Barbarism is defined as what is at once anti-classical and anti-progressive.
* ~ Friedrich Schlegel ~ in ~ Athenaeum Fragments ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:42, 10 March 2025 (UTC)