The wise sayings that follow were written by my 2007/2008 Humanities students. At the end of last year I selected from their many wise sayings the one by which I could best remember each.
Truth is unverifiable. Carlie Weiner
Learn from the past! Then you can survive the wild. Learn from the wild! Then you can survive society. Greg Allen
The great hypocrisy is life without passion. When you don’t care about anything, yet you still hold on to everything. Lizzie Bergman
If the arrow is motionless, then nothing exists. Rilke Crane
There are apples in the lemon tree. Anonymous
If you speak to me again of “the way,” I will push you off the nearest cliff, since that will
be my way. Kyle Leggott
Every thought, every universe, everything is a moment. Jaksa
What is one? Helen Wu
The body sees with its eyes, the soul with everything. Devon Dunn
Effective moral systems require someone or something in a higher position that must be respected and obeyed, so that our inborn desire for our own happiness does not harm others. Gram Hopwood
The self is experienced only in the present. When we try to know it, it vanishes. Daniel Lyle
The task is to find the balance between reason and emotion. The place to start is self-love. Desiree Patterson
Time creates, time destroys, time is an endless loop. Brandon Smith
Beauty, real love, and music are proof to me of the existence of God. Marlena Livingston
It may be impossible to institute the ideal into an entire society, but each of us can keep the ideal alive within ourselves. Richard Zou
Duality is not enough. John Derksen
In the process of dividing the world around us into concrete and narrow definitions, we lose sight of the potential truth, beauty, and knowledge that surrounds us, and in turn, we condemn ourselves to live in a world of empty realities. Kiana Espinosa
Math can describe nature, but math cannot describe math. Matt Davis
The very search for truth causes the truth to hide. Travis Willett-Gies
In anything that matters, perfection doesn’t exist. Colin Martz
Love, death, society, civilization, God, perfection, ethics, and it goes on. Ever since humanity invented itself, it has been flapping its arms and kicking itself for not adding wings. Nathaniel Shoemaker-Trejo
I know everything . . . except for what is going to happen next. Tiffany Perry
Though the world will tell you otherwise, the majority is not always correct and it is not necessary to be resigned to failure or to being average. Chris McKenzie
Good people do not harbor bitterness . . . instead they forgive and forget . . . because they know that only thus will they themselves be forgiven. Noel Deis
The master said, “He who has taken time to read the comics each morning will have lived a good life.” Kyle Cooper
The time before time . . . was bent . . .to touch the time that was . . . and the time that was now touches the present . . . which is also bent. Svyt Komogorov
It is by means of what we think and what we want that the world takes shape around us. Wesley Smalls
To know what happened before time began is silly, seeing as before implies chronology, which could not exist before itself. Connor Stern
Seeing requires your eyes be open. Yet it makes no difference in the dark. Rick Feddema
You cannot control what happens to you but you can control your perception of life and this is much more of a reality than anyone else’s account of events in your life. Shelley Casey
The most impressive virtue of them all: modesty. Terri Kurtz
Some believe we must give up our bodies to become eternal. In truth what we must give up is our minds. Richard Held
Why me, why not a zombie? Hugh Himwich
Don’t follow in the footsteps of the ancient masters. Seek what they sought. Basho
That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. Walt Whitman
Happiness is nothing unless it is shared. Chris McCandless
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