Best Quote of the Week ~ [12/22/13]

The Course of Empire: The Savage State by Thomas Cole (1836)

          "West, West! Whitherward point hope and prophet-fingers, whitherward at sunset kneel all worshipers of fire, whitherward in mid-ocean the great whales turn to die, whitherward face all the Moslem dead in Persia, whitherward lie Heaven and Hell!"

~A Passage from Herman Melville's Mardi: And Voyage Thither

Best Quote of the Week ~ [7/21/13]

          "If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

~Rabindranath Tagore

Best Quote of the Week ~ [5/19/13]

The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David

          "Socrates was Greek. He spent his life giving people advice. It poisoned him."

~Written by an unnamed College Student

Best Quote of the Week ~ [5/12/13]

Isolation by Geri Johnstone

          "I'm writing this letter at an outdoor cafe on a side street in Rome, sipping espresso as thick as the devil's sweat, and I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and somebody came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again....My eyes tell me I'm the same old me, but something's different from usual. Not that I can clearly recall what 'usual' was."

~Sumire (from Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart; [Never read the book, so I don't know the chapter or page number])

Best Quote of the Week ~ [2/10/13]

Bill Stoneham's The Hands Resist Him

          "What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good—the atavism of an older ideal."

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Virtual Gaia Network Is Going On Break

          Virtual Gaia Network is going on hiatus for awhile, while I catch up on school. Best Quotes of the Week will be up this Sunday, but won't return until the hiatus is over. Elevator Music's next Update will not go up this month. I'm sorry, guys, but I am really stretched thin right now. It's doesn't mean all that stuff is done or that a post won't find its way to the site, but I really need to focus on school right now. Also, there are a few other things I want to try and learn, but can't do them while I'm doing 50 other miscellaneous things. Anyway, hopefully it won't be long. Bye for now.

Best Quote of the Week ~ [12/30/12]

Here's to a simple and bright start to our next adventure.
Seeya in 2013.

          "The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that which is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."

~Albert Einstein

Best Quote of the Week ~ [9/2/12]

          "A place for everything and everything in its place."

~Charles A. Goodrich

Best Quote of the Week ~ [5/20/12]

The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya

          "Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare."

~Unknown

Best Quote of the Week ~ [4/22/12]

A Matter Of Time By Kathleen Patrick

          "Creativity is the residue of time wasted."

~Albert Einstein