
“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.”
“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.”
“But you will soon pay for it, my friend, when you take off your clothes, and with distended stomach carry your peacock into the bath undigested! Hence a sudden death, and an intestate old age; the new and merry tale runs the round of every dinner-table, and the corpse is carried forth to burial amid the cheers of enraged friends!”
Poena tamen praesens, cum tu deponis amictus
turgidus et crudum pavonem in balnea portas.
hinc subitae mortes atque intestata senectus;
it nova nec tristis per cunctas fabula cenas:
ducitur iratis plaudendum funus amicis.
Poena tamen praesens, cum tu deponis amictus
turgidus et crudum pavonem in balnea portas.
hinc subitae mortes atque intestata senectus;
it nova nec tristis per cunctas fabula cenas:
ducitur iratis plaudendum funus amicis.
I, line 142.
Satires, Satire I
Remarks after the Solvay Conference (1927)
Context: I feel very much like Dirac: the idea of a personal God is foreign to me. But we ought to remember that religion uses language in quite a different way from science. The language of religion is more closely related to the language of poetry than to the language of science. True, we are inclined to think that science deals with information about objective facts, and poetry with subjective feelings. Hence we conclude that if religion does indeed deal with objective truths, it ought to adopt the same criteria of truth as science. But I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won't get us very far.
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Lawh-i-Maqsúd http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/TB/tb-12.html (Tablet of Maqsúd)
"Hey Mama", Live Grammy Performance, February 2008
Lyrics, 808s & Heartbreak (2008)
Original: (la) Regnare nolo: ditescere non libet: prae turam recuso, scortationem odi: navigare ob insatiabilem avaritiam non cupio: de coronis consequendis non dimico: liber sum ab insana gloria cupiditate: mortem contemno: guovis morbi genere superior sum: maror animum non peredit.
Source: Address to the Greeks, Chapter XI, as translated by J. E. Ryland
Disputed, Women, Adored and Oppressed (1775)
1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
The Crisis No. II.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
The Crisis No. I.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
“The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.”
Source: 1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794), Chapter XII