"Active Evil is better than Passive Good." – William Blake

Life quotes May 9, 2010

“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.” – William Blake

"Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded." – Dale Spender

“Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity …

"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap" – Jacques Barzun

“Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, …

"Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an afterlife of some sort, but not a ‘before-life?’ Why are there so many versions of Heaven, Paradise and The Great Beyond, but almost none about The Great" – Judith Hayes

“Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an …

"If I had my life to live over again, I’d be a plumber." – Albert Einstein

“If I had my life to live over again, I’d be a plumber.” – Albert Einstein

"We have energy and electricity running through us just like a light switch. When you turn a light switch off the energy doesn’t disappear, it still exists somewhere. That’s why I believe in an afterlife. When we die our energy has to go somewhere, it’s impossible for this life to simply be the end of our existence." – Danielle Cales

“We have energy and electricity running through us just like a light switch. When you turn a light …

"Conversation"<br/><br/>God and I in space alone . . .<br/>and nobody else in view . . .<br/>"And where are all the people,<br/>Oh Lord" I said,<br/> "the earth below<br/> and the sky overhead<br/>and the dead that I once knew?"<br/>"That was a dream," God smiled<br/>and said: "The dream that seemed to<br/>be true; there were no people<br/>living or dead; there was no earth,<br/> and no sky overhead,<br/>there was only myself in you."<br/>"Why do I feel no fear?" I asked,<br/>"meeting you here in this way?<br/>For I have sinned, I know full well<br/>and is there heaven and is there hell,<br/>and is this Judgement Day?"<br/>"Nay, those were but dreams"<br/> the Great God said, "dreams that have ceased to<br/> be.<br/>There are no such things as fear and sin;<br/>there is no you . . . you never have been.<br/>There is nothing at all but me." – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Conversation” God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . .“And where …

"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity." – Paul Goodman

“Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.” – Paul Goodman

"Our lives a series of defining moments, strung together by passing time. Surrender fully to this moment, because it is not the moment itself that defines us, but how we choose to live in it." – Jill Anzinger

“Our lives a series of defining moments, strung together by passing time. Surrender fully to this moment, because …

"Microsoft Dynamics as a product line is not limiting itself to small and mid-sized businesses. Clearly CRM is an example of where we are going after large business in a very broad manner." – Brad Wilson

“Microsoft Dynamics as a product line is not limiting itself to small and mid-sized businesses. Clearly CRM is …

"Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue/ So varied in discourse." – Walter Savage Landor

“Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / …