September 1

  • Deep in the minds of the apes was rooted the conviction that Tarzan was a mighty fighter and a strange creature. Strange because he had had it in his power to kill his enemy, but had allowed him to live — unharmed.

    Edgar Rice Burroughs (born 1 September 1875) American author of science-fiction, famous for the creation of "Tarzan"
  • We've travelled halfway 'round the world
    To find ourselves again —
    September morn —
    We danced until the night became a brand new day,
    Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play —
    September morning still can make me feel that way.

    Neil DiamondAmerican singer-songwriter

September 2

  • If thinking men are few, they are for that reason all the more powerful. Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

    Henry George (born 2 September 1839) American political economist
  • The first casualty when war comes is truth.

    Hiram Johnson (born 2 September 1866) American progressive and later isolationist politician
  • To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those necessary to the common welfare, and in all its parts it should be kept as close to the people and as directly within their control as may be.

    Henry George (born 2 September 1839) American political economist

September 3

  • Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies in a twinkling.
    It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law.

    Louis Sullivan (born 3 September 1856) American architect
  • The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

    Sarah Orne Jewett (born 3 September 1849) American author and poet
  • Your patience may have long to wait,
    Whether in little things or great,
    But all good luck, you soon will learn,
    Must come to those who nobly earn.
    Who hunts the hay-field over
    Will find the four-leaved clover.

    Sarah Orne Jewett (born 3 September 1849) American author and poet

September 4

  • As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.

    François-René de Chateaubriand (born 4 September 1768) French writer, politician and diplomat
  • An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

    François-René de Chateaubriand (born 4 September 1768) French writer, politician and diplomat
  • In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

    Mary Renault (born 4 September 1905) English writer of historical novels

September 5

  • I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

    Caspar David Friedrich (born 5 September 1774) German romantic painter
  • A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

    Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (born 5 September 1857) Soviet Russian rocket scientist and pioneer of cosmonautics
  • Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.

    Black ElkA famous Medicine Man

September 6

  • I saw a rainbow earlier today
    Lately those rainbows be comin' round like everyday
    Deep in the struggle I have found the beauty of me
    God is watchin' and the Devil finally let me be
    Here in this moment to myself.

    Macy Gray (born 6 September 1967) American singer, songwriter and producer
  • When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.

    Robert M. Pirsig (born 6 September 1928) American philosopher and novelist
  • An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.

    Frances Wright (born 6 September 1795) Scotland-born lecturer, writer and feminist

September 7

  • I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones, and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them.
    I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

    Grandma Moses (born 7 September 1860) American folk artist
  • The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

    Nikita KhrushchevLeader of the Soviet Union after Stalin
  • As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

    Edith Sitwell (born 7 September 1887) English poet and critic

September 8

  • What voice revisits me this night? What face
    To my heart’s room returns?
    From the perpetual silence where the grace
    Of human sainthood burns
    Hastes he once more to harmonise and heal?
    I know not. Only I feel
    His influence undiminished
    And his life’s work, in me and many, unfinished.

    Siegfried Sassoon (born 8 September 1886) British poet and writer
  • Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
    Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
    In the great hour of destiny they stand,
    Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.

    Siegfried Sassoon (born 8 September 1886) British poet and writer
  • Oh, he tells me tears are something to hide
    And something to fear
    And I try so hard to keep it inside
    So no one can hear. "Hush, hush, keep it down now.
    Voices carry."

    Aimee Mann (born 8 September 1960) American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter

September 9

  • All men live not by the thought they spend on their own welfare, but because love exists in man.
    I knew before that God gave life to men and desires that they should live; now I understood more than that.
    I understood that God does not wish men to live apart, and therefore he does not reveal to them what each one needs for himself; but he wishes them to live united, and therefore reveals to each of them what is necessary for all.
    I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

    Leo Tolstoy (born 9 September 1828) Russian writer, philosopher and social activist
  • Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

    Leo Tolstoy (born 9 September 1828) Russian writer, philosopher and social activist
  • One thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth which finds place in every soul that is not stupefied by religious and scientific superstitions — the truth that for our life one law is valid — the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind. Free your minds from those overgrown, mountainous imbecilities which hinder your recognition of it, and at once the truth will emerge from amid the pseudo-religious nonsense that has been smothering it: the indubitable, eternal truth inherent in man, which is one and the same in all the great religions of the world. It will in due time emerge and make its way to general recognition, and the nonsense that has obscured it will disappear of itself, and with it will go the evil from which humanity now suffers.

    Leo Tolstoy (born 9 September 1828) Russian writer, philosopher and social activist

September 10

  • It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.

    Charles Sanders Peirce (born 10 September 1839) American philosopher, chemist and polymath
  • Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

    Cyril ConnollyEnglish author, editor and critic
  • The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.

    Charles Sanders Peirce (born 10 September 1839) American philosopher, chemist and polymath

September 11

  • On September 11, 2001, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day, and the days that would follow — the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

    Barack Obama44th President of the United States of America
  • Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do. … I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

    Stephen HawkingBritish theoretical physicist
  • In the early beginnings of the 21st century — a century already violently disabused of any hopes that progress towards global peace and prosperity is inevitable — this new reality can no longer be ignored. It must be confronted.

    Kofi AnnanGhanaian diplomat and the 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations

September 12

  • You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

    Stanisław Lem (born 12 September 1921) Polish writer
  • If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.

    Stanisław Lem (born 12 September 1921) Polish writer
  • It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

    Charles Dudley Warner (born 12 September 1829) American essayist and novelist

September 13

  • Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

    Roald Dahl (born 13 September 1916) British novelist and short story author
  • Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.

    Sherwood Anderson (born 13 September 1876) American writer

September 14

  • The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.

    Sydney J. Harris (born 14 September 1917) American essayist and drama critic
  • Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country’s virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

    Sydney J. Harris (born 14 September 1917) American essayist and drama critic
  • An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

    Sydney J. Harris (born 14 September 1917) American essayist and drama critic

September 15

  • Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

    Agatha Christie (born 15 September 1890) English author of detective fiction
  • If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

    François de La Rochefoucauld (born 15 September 1613) French author of maxims and memoirs
  • The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

    Agatha Christie (born 15 September 1890) English author of detective fiction

September 16

  • Descend, descend, Urania, speak
    To men in their own tongue!
    Leave not the breaking heart to break
    Because thine own is strong.
    This is the law, in dream and deed,
    That heaven must walk on earth!
    O, shine upon the humble creed
    That holds the heavenly birth.

    Alfred Noyes (born 16 September 1880) English poet
  • It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths.

    Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (born 16 September 1678) English statesman and philosopher
  • Thou whose deep ways are in the sea,
    Whose footsteps are not known,
    To-night a world that turned from Thee
    Is waiting — at Thy Throne. The towering Babels that we raised
    Where scoffing sophists brawl,
    The little Antichrists we praised —
    The night is on them all.

    Alfred Noyes (born 16 September 1880) English poet

September 17

  • Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

    William Carlos Williams (born 17 September 1883) American poet and physician
  • The real crazies who are looking for a messiah… after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else.

    Ken Kesey (born 17 September 1935) American writer, famous for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
  • What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.

    Ken Kesey (born 17 September 1935) American writer, famous for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

September 18

  • As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

    Samuel Johnson (born 18 September 1709) British author, linguist and lexicographer
  • A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

    Samuel Johnson (born 18 September 1709) British author, linguist and lexicographer
  • To contribute usefully to the advance of science, one must sometimes not disdain from undertaking simple verifications.

    Léon Foucault (born 18 September 1819) French physicist

September 19

  • The soul of man is larger than the sky,
    Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark
    Of the unfathomed center. Like that ark,
    Which in its sacred hold uplifted high,
    O'er the drowned hills, the human family,
    And stock reserved of every living kind,
    So, in the compass of the single mind,
    The seeds and pregnant forms in essence lie,
    That make all worlds.

    Hartley Coleridge (born 19 September 1796) English writer
  • Basically I'm an optimist. Intellectually I can see man's balance is about fifty-fifty, and his chances of blowing himself up are about one to one. I can't see this any way but intellectually. I'm just emotionally unable to believe that he will do this. This means that I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist, I suppose.

    William Golding (born 19 September 1911) English novelist and poet
  • Hard I strove
    To put away my immortality,
    Till my collected spirits swell'd my heart
    Almost to bursting; but the strife is past.
    It is a fearful thing to be a god,
    And, like a god, endure a mortal's pain;
    To be a show for earth and wondering heaven
    To gaze and shudder at! But I will live,
    That Jove may know there is a deathless soul
    Who ne'er will be his subject. Yes, 'tis past.
    The stedfast Fates confess my absolute will, —
    Their own co-equal.

    Hartley Coleridge (born 19 September 1796) English writer

September 20

  • Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

    Sophia Loren (born 20 September 1934) Italian actress
  • When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.

    Joyce Brothers (born 20 September 1928) American psychologist, author, and advice columnist
  • The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

    Leo Strauss (born 20 September 1899) German-Jewish philosopher

September 21

  • Ah, you loved me as a loser,
    But now you're worried that I just might win.
    You know the way to stop me,
    But you don't have the discipline.
    How many nights I prayed for this,
    To let my work begin.
    First we take Manhattan,
    Then we take Berlin.

    Leonard Cohen (born 21 September 1934) Canadian poet, songwriter and singer
  • I'm guided by a signal in the heavens,
    I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
    I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
    First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.

    Leonard Cohen (born 21 September 1934) Canadian poet, songwriter and singer
  • The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.

    Stephen King (born 21 September 1947) American author, screenwriter and musician

September 22

  • Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
    Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
    Conspiring with him how to load and bless
    With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
    To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
    And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
    To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells
    With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
    And still more, later flowers for the bees,
    Until they think warm days will never cease,
    For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

    John KeatsEnglish romantic poet
  • Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

    Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (born 22 September 1694) British statesman
  • I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it … Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds. Nothing is so good as an experiment which, whilst it sets an error right, gives us (as a reward for our humility in being reproved) an absolute advancement in knowledge.

    Michael Faraday (born 22 September 1791) English chemist and physicist

September 23

  • In an ideal University, as I conceive it, a man should be able to obtain instruction in all forms of knowledge, and discipline in the use of all the methods by which knowledge is obtained. In such a University, the force of living example should fire the student with a noble ambition to emulate the learning of learned men, and to follow in the footsteps of the explorers of new fields of knowledge. And the very air he breathes should be charged with that enthusiasm for truth, that fanaticism of veracity, which is a greater possession than much learning; a nobler gift than the power of increasing knowledge; by so much greater and nobler than these, as the moral nature of man is greater than the intellectual; for veracity is the heart of morality.

    Thomas Henry HuxleyBritish biologist
  • If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

    Thomas Henry HuxleyBritish biologist
  • The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. And it cannot be otherwise, for every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority, the cherishing of the keenest scepticism, the annihilation of the spirit of blind faith; and the most ardent votary of science holds his firmest convictions, not because the men he most venerates hold them; not because their verity is testified by portents and wonders; but because his experience teaches him that whenever he chooses to bring these convictions into contact with their primary source, Nature — whenever he thinks fit to test them by appealing to experiment and to observation — Nature will confirm them. The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

    Thomas Henry HuxleyBritish biologist

September 24

  • Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

    John Brunner (born 24 September 1934) British science fiction author
  • At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (born 24 September 1896) Irish-American novelist
  • Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (born 24 September 1896) Irish-American novelist

September 25

  • The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

    William Faulkner (born 25 September 1897) American novelist and poet
  • The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

    William Faulkner (born 25 September 1897) American novelist and poet
  • No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol — cross or crescent or whatever — that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.

    William Faulkner (born 25 September 1897) American novelist and poet

September 26

  • Whatever we inherit from the fortunate
    We have taken from the defeated
    What they had to leave us — a symbol:
    A symbol perfected in death.
    And all shall be well and
    All manner of thing shall be well
    By the purification of the motive
    In the ground of our beseeching.

    T. S. Eliot in "The Four Quartets" (born 26 September 1888) American-born English poet and dramatist
  • All is always now. Words strain,
    Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
    Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
    Will not stay still.

    T. S. Eliot in "The Four Quartets" (born 26 September 1888) American-born English poet and dramatist
  • At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
    Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
    But neither arrest nor movement.
    And do not call it fixity,
    Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
    Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
    There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
    I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where
    And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time.

    T. S. Eliot in "The Four Quartets" (born 26 September 1888) American-born English poet and dramatist

September 27

  • The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present: Let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeath'd to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. — Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.

    Samuel Adams (born 27 September 1722) American revolutionary and organiser of the Boston Tea Party
  • If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

    Samuel Adams (born 27 September 1722) American revolutionary and organizer of the Boston Tea Party
  • In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practised, and, both by precept and example, inculcated on mankind.

    Samuel Adams (born 27 September 1722) American revolutionary and organizer of the Boston Tea Party

September 28

  • The way which the superior man pursues, reaches wide and far, and yet is secret. Common men and women, however ignorant, may intermeddle with the knowledge of it; yet in its utmost reaches, there is that which even the sage does not know. Common men and women, however much below the ordinary standard of character, can carry it into practice; yet in its utmost reaches, there is that which even the sage is not able to carry into practice. Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.

    Confucius (born 28 September 551 B.C.) Chinese social philosopher
  • I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

    Paul NewmanAmerican actor and film director
  • It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin. It is characteristic of the superior man, appearing insipid, yet never to produce satiety; while showing a simple negligence, yet to have his accomplishments recognized; while seemingly plain, yet to be discriminating. He knows how what is distant lies in what is near. He knows where the wind proceeds from. He knows how what is minute becomes manifested. Such a one, we may be sure, will enter into virtue.

    Confucius (born 28 September 551 B.C.) Chinese social philosopher

September 29

  • I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

    Miguel de Cervantes (born 29 September 1547) Spanish novelist and poet, famous for "Don Quixote"
  • It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

    Miguel de Unamuno (born 29 September 1864) Spanish essayist, novelist and poet
  • The truth is that my work — I was going to say my mission — is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

    Miguel de Unamuno (born 29 September 1864) Spanish essayist, novelist and poet

September 30

  • Reason is like an officer when the King appears;
    The officer then loses his power and hides himself.
    Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

    Rumi (born 30 September 1207) Persian philosopher, theologian and poet
  • If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

    Rumi (born 30 September 1207) Persian philosopher, theologian and poet
  • Observe the wonders as they occur around you.
    Don't claim them. Feel the artistry
    moving through, and be silent.

    Rumi (born 30 September 1207) Persian philosopher, theologian and poet
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