WIST QuotationsMar 12

A quotation from Montaigne

Not being able to control events, I control myself, and adapt myself to them if they do not adapt themselves to me.
 
[Ne pouvant regler les evenemens, je me regle moy-mesme: & m’applique à eux, s’ils ne s’appliquent à moy.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cohen (1958)]

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Dec 16

A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

For years I have hoped that we could stop war as an instrument for settling any national and international difficulties. I have worked for it and shall continue to work for it. However, one has to face the world as it is and, without discarding one’s ideals, meet the realities of the day and keep on working for what one hopes will be a better future.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1940-05-17), “My Day”

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Column (1940-05-17), "My Day" - Roosevelt, Eleanor | WIST Quotations

For years I have hoped that we could stop war as an instrument for settling any national and international difficulties. I have worked for it and shall continue to work for it. However, one has to face the world as it is and, without discarding one's ideals, meet the realities…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Sep 10, 2025

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and, however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930)

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Aug 1, 2025

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

Our minds are better employed in bearing the misfortunes that do befall us than in foreseeing those that may.
 
[Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu’à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶174 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jul 16, 2025

A quotation from Henry James

The world as it stands is no illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of a night; we wake up to it again for ever and ever; we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

Henry James (1843-1916) American writer
Essay (1874-04), “Iwan Turgéniew,” sec. 3, North American Review, Vol. 98, Art. 4

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OccuWorldJun 3, 2025

DESTROYERS
actual

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EileikMay 30, 2025

Grosse Solidarität mit den Menschen von Blatten! 💔💚

Die letzten Jahrzehnte des Nichthandelns in der Klimakrise haben einen grossen Anteil an eurer Misere!

Diese Katastrophe könnte ein Weckruf sein!

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Mar 11, 2025

A quotation from John Adams

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Speech (1770-12-04), “Argument in Defence of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials”

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WIST Quotations moves again!Jan 2, 2025

A quotation from Baldwin, James:

«
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
»

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https://wist.info/baldwin-james/1227/

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Tom CapuderSep 1, 2024

Theists:
Happy #SacrilegeSunday!
If only you could step outside of your religious box, you’d see that the things you profess to believe are silly, childish, illogical, and fear-based, or flat-out debunked..

But you probably can’t, so keep believing in God (Santa) for the imaginary reward of heaven (presents) or punishment of hell (lump of coal). Just keep your superstitions out of laws and schools, please.

#FaceReality

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#atheism #faith #god