I used to sing this when i was small boy in front of my grandma in the Philippines and now im intears I miss my Grand ma , Nanay Yonang I love you so much I was just child then now Im 63 year old Man
When our one of our 8 granddaughters, got married this Summer, I gave them a Lemon tree and told them the story of how a lemon tree, is very much like a Relationship. Here’s what I told them: “Make some lemonade to drink, sit down and talk out your problems. The Lemon tree has beautiful sweet flowers, long sharpe thorns and healthy fruits. Just like EVERY relationship.. just remember to take care of it.” That lemon tree I grew for them, was big hit that day, with the added in STORY... I now I find this old song... PERFECT!
This trio has always been the soundtrack of my life. They taught me that passion and beauty united with artistry produce a mirror for truth. A class act, all the way.
GRRM brought me here. This is such a beautiful song! No such music today. Mary is also gorgeous. I am a 90ties Kid and love the 60ties and 70ties music
I am classified as gen Z but my grandmother and grandfather had a jukebox at their house, I'd always play lemon tree when I had a chance. Those who say that younger generations can't appreciate older music are very wrong.
Das ist das Schöne am Leben. Im 50. Lebensjahr stehend, höre ich dieses wundervolle Lied zum ersten Mal. Ich stelle mir vor, wie ich mit 96 in einem Schaukelstuhl versunken bin und leise dieses Lied singe. Und genau wie jetzt wird mein Herz von Liebe erfüllt sein.
Me and my brothers grew up most of our very young years living with my mom at our grandmother's house.. She had a big beautiful lemon tree that I used to climb and hang out in as a kid.. We used to make fresh lemonade with freshly grown mint year after year from that beautiful tree.. After my grandmother passed away some gardeners over- pruned that lemon tree. It was so bad that it withered and died and when I found out it broke my heart remembering my grandmother's homemade Lemon Cake that she used to make from the lemons of that tree and all the memories.. This song is from back then in that era.. I loved it as a child and now it has even more meaning..
I was eight years old back 1970, the first time I heard Peter, Paul and Mary. The words of this song still ring true. However, as we grow older, so does our wisdom grow with us.
I remember this song playing at 5am while my dad took me to daycare. He had a CD with it and a few other classics on it, and every once in a while i remember it and come back to feel that sense of calm and nostalgia. Being half asleep, watching snow fly past the window while holding a cold pillow, not having any worries or stresses.. i miss being a child
They'll never be a another Peter, Paul, and Mary. I'm glad we have their songs recorded for future generations to hear and enjoy. Something very spiritual about that group that can't be defined.
I was searching for ‘puff the magic dragon’ cuz one day I remembered that song from when I was little, and I’m so glad I remembered it. The songs by Peter, Paul, and Mary are amazing. Simply stunning.
Folk songs like this this, to me, were always precious. They somehow seem to hold truths for all ages. My regret is that I had no children. To those of you who do, please pass this on ! There is much wisdom in songs such as this.
In my senior years now, Louise, and so clearly I remember first time to hear so many of these songs.. sitting around a campfire singing along.. also deep regret never to have children. If we'd been born later, it would be no problem, but alas we weren't, and my thoughts are with you, friend.
My father used to have the vinyl with this song on it. I asked him to play this song so much. I was 5ish and liked the lemon tree part without realizing what the rest of the lyrics meant. Now, as an adult, Peter, Paul and Mary are favorites of mine because the worth and value of many of their lyrics and because of memories with my father. I cannot have natural children but my husband and I want to adopt and hope one day to sing and play these songs for our children. Hubby likes Peter, Paul and Mary, also.
Same here, well I'm a bit older. I'm 20 but I can say the last 10 years of you life is where music started to have a SERIOUS down fall. So I'm just grateful to youtube, records my parents and grandparents kept, and i tunes for allowing me to have this beautiful music with me as I go
I've known the chorus almost 50 years. Always thought this song was about lemons. Looked up song on a whim today. My, my... what a song. And I'd experience this story this very year. Too bad I never paid closer attention over the years.
This was the second song I ever heard by Peter, Paul, and Mary. I must have been 4. Used to help mom and dad dust the house and sprayed Lemon Pledge all over while singing as the vinyl played.
Wow grade two ako nun bata pa kami ni angelie di ko pa nga tiyak kung nagaaral na ako thanks hod thanks jesus thank holy spirit and thank you best friend angelie i remember my face wuth bangs on.my teen ager teens pakiulitso long long years bago ko nalaman ang all lyrics so pakiulit ang song ant thank u u tuber and all concern
My grandmother have this entire album and my grandfather would play it while we drove. It brings back memories of riding in their car on Saturday mornings as we drove through subdivisions looking through yard sales. My grandfather has since passed, but these are cherished memories of ours.
this is just beauuuuutiful too hear love, Love, love, love this timelessly elegantly lovely classic gem of a tune very grooooovvvvvyyyy yeah peace everyone😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉.
"The gore was horrible, and stays with me. But what wakes me up twenty years later is Dave Jensen singing 'Lemon Tree' as we threw down the parts." -The Things They Carried
I'm here because I already new the song, but wanted to find it for a friend while discussing the chapter of the book where this happens. Laughs in 4ys late to the party
The thing I love about this comment section is that half of the comments here are enjoying the nice folk tune while the other half is just having this big collective Vietnam flashback.
Perhaps but I find the good of humanity in so many comments. And it it so rare to see it in everyday life...at least ...to see it so bare and soft and vulnerable. Makes my heart smile. Thanks all !! I love you guys!!
I have been singing this song my whole life. As I would wash dishes & chores around the house. My kids grew up with me singing this all the time. Lol. It was stuck in my head since a child
There was an expression in the British Army of being lemoned. It meant being had over. You’ve been lemoned! I had a PP&M album with this song on it and it became a sort of anthem for us at 2 Sqn, 1 Div Signal Regiment as we seemed to have become lemoned on a regular basis. My PP&M greatest hits album was always on the turntable of my music centre even when not in the room.
…just finished picking all the lemons off our tree, then,we washed, halved and juiced them. We got a lot of juice! You have to add a sweetener to the juice so you can drink it. That’s when I remembered this song. I forgot the parallel in the song’s theme. But, yes, after all these years,it’s amazing how the brain can connect objects in our lives with art(songs) that we experience. Such a mellow tune out of the sixty’s, no auto tune or over production, just Peter Paul and Mary.
thank you for posting this beautiful song. i grew up listening to and singing this song and i remember getting a natural high listening to this trio and it still has the same effect on me up to this day... modern "artists" don't measure half to the musicians of yesterday! xoxoxo
Lemon Tree is NOT an anti-Vietnam war song. First, the tune itself was written well before PPM's 1962 version. Second, in 1962 the Vietnam war had just begun for the USA. Third, PPM's tunes were simply great folk songs. They could not have predicted the war's horrific future. Returning to the lesson of Lemon Tree. I was taken to a live PPM concert by my mother in 1962. I was mortified. Elvis Presley was singing tunes on KCBQ such as "Return to Sender" and I was in some folk singers' audience? Love never comes easy.
This song reminds me of when I was growing up in Oakland California during the 60's. I was in 4th grade when the girl of my dreams (another 4th grader named Robin) sang this song at the school talent show. I was in the front row and was completely in love.
My dad loved playing his Peter, Paul and Mary records, as well as the Seekers, it was a gift to me,..I can still remember records.. unlike my children who have no idea
We can eat lemons right? 😅 This song is already old when I am a kid but I still love, I thank my parents that they introduced me to the oldies but the goodies
Name for me just One other musical group or artist who have been creative enough to put out such a beautiful song about the Lemon Tree!!! I rest my case!!
Born in 1970, I don't recall ever hearing this song though. I heard a lot of other 1960s songs growing up, but not this one that I can remember. I have to say first hearing it now, I didn't like it. But I played it several more times and it's grown on me. Also the Trini Lopez version is good too. What led me to look up Lemon Tree was a reference in a Seinfeld episode 😀
My wife inspired me to this site and to play the song for our son. It was his first time to here Peter, Paul, and Mary. Meanwhile, I am formulating recipes for lemon custard ice cream, lemon pound cake, and lemon candies using fresh lemons my father-in-law grew and my wife and planning to plant numerous lemon trees around our home, though I may be able to interject a plum, a peach, or a satsuma in the midst of them all.
OMG... The ones who grew up hearing this music, were influenced by something was so strong, something so powerful that it shaped us into our adulthoods. Music like this moves us, in ways that cleanse our souls and hearts. It was written out of passion, and love for humanity. No wonder why as I listen to it… I get shivers
If worldly knowledge is deemed to be worshipful, then study the Ancient Greek Philosophers...Know thyself Article Talk Language Watch Edit "Gnothi seauton" redirects here. For other uses, see Gnothi seauton (disambiguation) and Know thyself (disambiguation). For other uses, see Self-knowledge. "Know thyself" (Greek: Γνῶθι σαυτόν, gnōthi sauton)[a] is a philosophical maxim which was inscribed upon the Temple of Apollo in the ancient Greek precinct of Delphi. The most well-known of the Delphic maxims, it has been quoted and analyzed by numerous authors throughout history, and has been given many different applications. Although traditionally attributed to the Seven Sages of Greece, or to the god Apollo himself, the inscription likely had its origin in a popular proverb. Ion of Chios makes the earliest explicit allusion to the maxim in a fragment dating to the 5th century BC, though the philosopher Heraclitus, active towards the end of the previous century, may also have made reference to the maxim in his works. The principal meaning of the phrase in its original application was "know your limits" - either in the sense of knowing the extent of one's abilities, knowing one's place in the social scale, or knowing oneself to be mortal. In the 4th century BC, however, the maxim was drastically re-interpreted by Plato, who understood it to mean, broadly speaking, "know your soul". In later writings on the subject, one common theme was that one could acquire knowledge of the self by studying the universe, or knowledge of the universe by studying the self. This was often explained in terms of the microcosm-macrocosm analogy, the idea that a human being is structurally similar to the cosmos. Another theme, which can be traced back to the Platonic Alcibiades I, is that one can only know oneself by observing other people. Christian, Jewish and Islamic authors found various scriptural equivalents for the maxim, allowing them to discuss the topic of self-knowledge without reference to the pagan inscription. By the time of the Protestant Reformation, Christian theologians generally understood the maxim to enjoin, firstly, knowledge of the soul's origin in God, and secondly, knowledge of the sinfulness of human nature. In secular writings of the period, several new meanings emerged; among them, that "know thyself" was a command to study the physical properties of the human body. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the maxim acquired several new associations. It was frequently quoted in German philosophy and literature, by authors such as Kant, Hegel and Goethe; it was cited as an analogue of "tat tvam asi" ("that thou art"), one of the "Great Sayings" of Hinduism; and it took on an important role in the developing discipline of psychoanalysis, where it was interpreted as an injunction to understand the unconscious mind. ..
I used to sing this when i was small boy in front of my grandma in the Philippines and now im intears I miss my Grand ma , Nanay Yonang I love you so much I was just child then now Im 63 year old Man
When our one of our 8 granddaughters, got married this Summer, I gave them a Lemon tree and told them the story of how a lemon tree, is very much like a Relationship.
Here’s what I told them:
“Make some lemonade to drink, sit down and talk out your problems. The Lemon tree has beautiful sweet flowers, long sharpe thorns and healthy fruits. Just like EVERY relationship.. just remember to take care of it.”
That lemon tree I grew for them, was big hit that day, with the added in STORY... I now I find this old song... PERFECT!
This trio has always been the soundtrack of my life. They taught me that passion and beauty united with artistry produce a mirror for truth. A class act, all the way.
GRRM brought me here. This is such a beautiful song! No such music today. Mary is also gorgeous.
I am a 90ties Kid and love the 60ties and 70ties music
As a youngster I had such a crush on Mary when this song came out. R.IP.
I am classified as gen Z but my grandmother and grandfather had a jukebox at their house, I'd always play lemon tree when I had a chance. Those who say that younger generations can't appreciate older music are very wrong.
Very true 🌻
Das ist das Schöne am Leben. Im 50. Lebensjahr stehend, höre ich dieses wundervolle Lied zum ersten Mal. Ich stelle mir vor, wie ich mit 96 in einem Schaukelstuhl versunken bin und leise dieses Lied singe. Und genau wie jetzt wird mein Herz von Liebe erfüllt sein.
My dad used to sing this to me when I was around 4, I'm 16 now and it's one of my favorite songs
My Mom used to sing this song when it came on the old wireless, I was about 5yrs, sweet memories, I am 65yrs now, 😃✨🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋
Me and my brothers grew up most of our very young years living with my mom at our grandmother's house.. She had a big beautiful lemon tree that I used to climb and hang out in as a kid.. We used to make fresh lemonade with freshly grown mint year after year from that beautiful tree.. After my grandmother passed away some gardeners over- pruned that lemon tree. It was so bad that it withered and died and when I found out it broke my heart remembering my grandmother's homemade Lemon Cake that she used to make from the lemons of that tree and all the memories.. This song is from back then in that era.. I loved it as a child and now it has even more meaning..
I was eight years old back 1970, the first time I heard Peter, Paul and Mary.
The words of this song still ring true.
However, as we grow older, so does our wisdom grow with us.
These lyrics tell a story of ‘love lost’. Beautiful melody. This trio was iconic. 🥰👍☺️
I remember this song playing at 5am while my dad took me to daycare. He had a CD with it and a few other classics on it, and every once in a while i remember it and come back to feel that sense of calm and nostalgia. Being half asleep, watching snow fly past the window while holding a cold pillow, not having any worries or stresses.. i miss being a child
Me too. Let us create memories for our loved ones
This was my father's favorite song, he use to sing it to me as child. Rest In Peace papa joon. love you and miss you so much :(
this was me and my grandmas favorite song, so many memories
Love this song, Mom used to sing this, bring back sweet memories , Love Peter, Paul and Mary, you can here every one they sing👋🍋👋🍋👋🍋 Thank you.
They'll never be a another Peter, Paul, and Mary. I'm glad we have their songs recorded for future generations to hear and enjoy. Something very spiritual about that group that can't be defined.
Yes, I'm so glad that my grandmother introduced me to them. There is no one else like them.
What is your favorite song by them?
@Dev Chakrabarty I don’t believe that was a song the group made, sorry.
A common take but true.
I was searching for ‘puff the magic dragon’ cuz one day I remembered that song from when I was little, and I’m so glad I remembered it. The songs by Peter, Paul, and Mary are amazing. Simply stunning.
Folk songs like this this, to me, were always precious. They somehow seem to hold truths for all ages. My regret is that I had no children. To those of you who do, please pass this on ! There is much wisdom in songs such as this.
geez louise I'm 13 and this has helped me go on in life the songs are vary wise and ur rite and u have wisdom
Minecraftmechanics only 13 and you had a rough road, but if you are going through hell, keep going cause that only means you're.not.done
In my senior years now, Louise, and so clearly I remember first time to hear so many of these songs.. sitting around a campfire singing along.. also deep regret never to have children. If we'd been born later, it would be no problem, but alas we weren't, and my thoughts are with you, friend.
I grew up in the era and I heard these songs almost all the time, and I heard them often.
My father used to have the vinyl with this song on it. I asked him to play this song so much. I was 5ish and liked the lemon tree part without realizing what the rest of the lyrics meant. Now, as an adult, Peter, Paul and Mary are favorites of mine because the worth and value of many of their lyrics and because of memories with my father. I cannot have natural children but my husband and I want to adopt and hope one day to sing and play these songs for our children. Hubby likes Peter, Paul and Mary, also.
People should revisit the 60's folk scene, pure music, timeless masterpieces!
The message is timeless I just sent this song to my 73 year old friend from high school.
Freedom and individuality and that's what I HAVE thanks! ❤🙏
Same here, well I'm a bit older. I'm 20 but I can say the last 10 years of you life is where music started to have a SERIOUS down fall. So I'm just grateful to youtube, records my parents and grandparents kept, and i tunes for allowing me to have this beautiful music with me as I go
It is so nice to hear these good ole folk songs again. To me they are timeless...
Loved this song for decades ❤️
I can still remember singing this at infant school when I about 5.
Lovely song.
Me too...first year primary school ,weren't we lucky
Life is sweeter with Peter, Paul and Mary :)
I had forgotten the words to the third verse of this beautiful song! Very powerful!
I'm only 26 and I miss songs like this that I grew up with. From Folk Music to Rock all the old songs were just way better.
Beautiful harmonies on a great song. This is a timeless classic.
A singular melody that tends to permeate our softer thoughts of a simpler time...
Same here. I'm also 20 and love Peter Paul and Mary. It's what I listen to on my Ipod all the time
They. Send me. Childhood
I've known the chorus almost 50 years. Always thought this song was about lemons. Looked up song on a whim today. My, my... what a song. And I'd experience this story this very year. Too bad I never paid closer attention over the years.
Thank you for the sweet memory of my youth!
These songs will take you a trip down memory lane. 😁
I'm 60 years old and still sing the song often.
This was the second song I ever heard by Peter, Paul, and Mary. I must have been 4. Used to help mom and dad dust the house and sprayed Lemon Pledge all over while singing as the vinyl played.
this is a song that describes a lot about the emotions we feel without being explicit like modern music. I love this song. ^^
i love oldies. love love.. form philippines
It's the first year our lemon tree has had any amount of flower. This evening it smelt stunning!
Brings back so many memories. Love them
They have been my favorite music group since the early 60s
Beautiful, wonderful...adorable, entrañable.
Wow grade two ako nun bata pa kami ni angelie di ko pa nga tiyak kung nagaaral na ako thanks hod thanks jesus thank holy spirit and thank you best friend angelie i remember my face wuth bangs on.my teen ager teens pakiulitso long long years bago ko nalaman ang all lyrics so pakiulit ang song ant thank u u tuber and all concern
this song reminds me of my granddaddy who passed away two years ago. Miss him so much!!!
My grandmother have this entire album and my grandfather would play it while we drove. It brings back memories of riding in their car on Saturday mornings as we drove through subdivisions looking through yard sales.
My grandfather has since passed, but these are cherished memories of ours.
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I’m so glad my parents introduced me to Peter, Paul and Mary.
My daughter’s first concert at age 4 was Peter, Paul, and Mary. She’s 25 now. Her iPod is confusing to many. 😃
this is just beauuuuutiful too hear love, Love, love, love this timelessly elegantly lovely classic gem of a tune very grooooovvvvvyyyy yeah peace everyone😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉.
This song is my earliest memory. Until today, I hadn't heard it since I hit puberty. It reminds me how sad I was, back then.
I came slightly later-my first musical memory is Cass Elliot singing New World Coming on the Dick Cavett show.
"The gore was horrible, and stays with me. But what wakes me up twenty years later is Dave Jensen singing 'Lemon Tree' as we threw down the parts."
-The Things They Carried
We were reading that in class and my English teacher said not to look up this song. So of course that's why I'm here
I’m here because of the book too :)
This is what I came for
same reason why i'm here
I'm here because I already new the song, but wanted to find it for a friend while discussing the chapter of the book where this happens.
Laughs in 4ys late to the party
An Oldie but a Goodie 🤣 BIAAAAAARCH!
The thing I love about this comment section is that half of the comments here are enjoying the nice folk tune while the other half is just having this big collective Vietnam flashback.
I’m having both. I’m back there when life was good.
Rip Curt Lemon lmaooo
Both
Perhaps but I find the good of humanity in so many comments. And it it so rare to see it in everyday life...at least ...to see it so bare and soft and vulnerable. Makes my heart smile. Thanks all !! I love you guys!!
I am here because of George RR Martin. This song is one of his favorites
Beautiful
so sweet in the ears.those who can hear their songs will truly and genuinely love music deep within their souls.heavenly sound.
Glad to see this posting back on CZcams. Hope it stays as it is a classic everyone should have access too. Thanks for this posting.
I'm 15 years old but this song so good
1965 it's song
Lemon makes a very healthy
drink for the morning,
Full of vitamin C to aid
Keeping colds at bay
for the winter.
Lovely old song.
Thank You
❤️🦋🦋🦋😇🌈😇🌈
Oh I miss all that good music
beautiful people--- singing beautiful songs--- in an era--- alas now gone.
I love this song, it sticks in my head all day
One of their best arrangements.
When I was in Highschool they would come and play at the school. Remember the songs decades later.
I have been singing this song my whole life. As I would wash dishes & chores around the house. My kids grew up with me singing this all the time. Lol. It was stuck in my head since a child
There was an expression in the British Army of being lemoned. It meant being had over. You’ve been lemoned! I had a PP&M album with this song on it and it became a sort of anthem for us at 2 Sqn, 1 Div Signal Regiment as we seemed to have become lemoned on a regular basis. My PP&M greatest hits album was always on the turntable of my music centre even when not in the room.
Loved Peter paul and Mary all of my life!
Love this song!
My dad sang it to me when I was around 10 years old. I'm pushing 70 now.
Well said best vocal harmony's Ever I just wish Mary was still with us xx
thank you for the beautiful song.
…just finished picking all the lemons off our tree, then,we washed, halved and juiced them. We got a lot of juice! You have to add a sweetener to the juice so you can drink it. That’s when I remembered this song. I forgot the parallel in the song’s theme. But, yes, after all these years,it’s amazing how the brain can connect objects in our lives with art(songs) that we experience. Such a mellow tune out of the sixty’s, no auto tune or over production, just Peter Paul and Mary.
I don't think they were so musically inept that they could benefit from auto tune!
When I was a little girl of 7 this was my favorite song. Brings back memories long forgotten.
thank you for posting this beautiful song. i grew up listening to and singing this song and i remember getting a natural high listening to this trio and it still has the same effect on me up to this day... modern "artists" don't measure half to the musicians of yesterday! xoxoxo
Lemon Tree is NOT an anti-Vietnam war song. First, the tune itself was written well before PPM's 1962 version. Second, in 1962 the Vietnam war had just begun for the USA. Third, PPM's tunes were simply great folk songs. They could not have predicted the war's horrific future.
Returning to the lesson of Lemon Tree. I was taken to a live PPM concert by my mother in 1962. I was mortified. Elvis Presley was singing tunes on KCBQ such as "Return to Sender" and I was in some folk singers' audience? Love never comes easy.
I really like this song remembering when l was in elementary
This song reminds me of when I was growing up in Oakland California during the 60's. I was in 4th grade when the girl of my dreams (another 4th grader named Robin) sang this song at the school talent show. I was in the front row and was completely in love.
My dad loved playing his Peter, Paul and Mary records, as well as the Seekers, it was a gift to me,..I can still remember records.. unlike my children who have no idea
I was raised on their music. I’ve always loved it and I’m glad that my parents were hippies with short hair. LOL
a timeless piece...likes hearing it again and again, thank you..
Not heard this in ages...timeless...
god come back how sweet the sound the voices the music eats at my ears for ever
Mary travers was so beautiful very delicate and talented...
BEAUTIFUL
Its so great lemons are great ahhh there just good and sour ☺️☺️☺️🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋
We can eat lemons right? 😅
This song is already old when I am a kid but I still love, I thank my parents that they introduced me to the oldies but the goodies
my childhood
thank God we have recordings. Nobody makes music like this anymore. Richard in Dallas.
i have not herd this song in so long
my 4th grade played this song right now I'm in 5th
i miss mr.weingard
Great songs in that era
Don't care much for modern music
Name for me just One other musical group or artist who have been creative enough to put out such a beautiful song about the Lemon Tree!!! I rest my case!!
Born in 1970, I don't recall ever hearing this song though. I heard a lot of other 1960s songs growing up, but not this one that I can remember. I have to say first hearing it now, I didn't like it. But I played it several more times and it's grown on me. Also the Trini Lopez version is good too. What led me to look up Lemon Tree was a reference in a Seinfeld episode 😀
My wife inspired me to this site and to play the song for our son. It was his first time to here Peter, Paul, and Mary. Meanwhile, I am formulating recipes for lemon custard ice cream, lemon pound cake, and lemon candies using fresh lemons my father-in-law grew and my wife and planning to plant numerous lemon trees around our home, though I may be able to interject a plum, a peach, or a satsuma in the midst of them all.
My father used to sing this sing to me when I was a kid.
God damn it.
I had a 4th grade teacher who was named Ms Hilton and she used to play this song during music. I still like it. 💜. Now I'm Ms Hilton. Go figure?!
My Latin teacher freshman year of high school once told us he puckered, choked and passed out purely by listening to this song. That guy was a legend
OMG... The ones who grew up hearing this music, were influenced by something was so strong, something so powerful that it shaped us into our adulthoods. Music like this moves us, in ways that cleanse our souls and hearts. It was written out of passion, and love for humanity. No wonder why as I listen to it… I get shivers
dude, did you smoke weed before writing that or what? Stay away from Boney M. Your brain might never recover.
I am sorry to here that. That is actually kind of sad.
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For other uses, see Self-knowledge.
"Know thyself" (Greek: Γνῶθι σαυτόν, gnōthi sauton)[a] is a philosophical maxim which was inscribed upon the Temple of Apollo in the ancient Greek precinct of Delphi. The most well-known of the Delphic maxims, it has been quoted and analyzed by numerous authors throughout history, and has been given many different applications. Although traditionally attributed to the Seven Sages of Greece, or to the god Apollo himself, the inscription likely had its origin in a popular proverb.
Ion of Chios makes the earliest explicit allusion to the maxim in a fragment dating to the 5th century BC, though the philosopher Heraclitus, active towards the end of the previous century, may also have made reference to the maxim in his works. The principal meaning of the phrase in its original application was "know your limits" - either in the sense of knowing the extent of one's abilities, knowing one's place in the social scale, or knowing oneself to be mortal. In the 4th century BC, however, the maxim was drastically re-interpreted by Plato, who understood it to mean, broadly speaking, "know your soul".
In later writings on the subject, one common theme was that one could acquire knowledge of the self by studying the universe, or knowledge of the universe by studying the self. This was often explained in terms of the microcosm-macrocosm analogy, the idea that a human being is structurally similar to the cosmos. Another theme, which can be traced back to the Platonic Alcibiades I, is that one can only know oneself by observing other people.
Christian, Jewish and Islamic authors found various scriptural equivalents for the maxim, allowing them to discuss the topic of self-knowledge without reference to the pagan inscription. By the time of the Protestant Reformation, Christian theologians generally understood the maxim to enjoin, firstly, knowledge of the soul's origin in God, and secondly, knowledge of the sinfulness of human nature. In secular writings of the period, several new meanings emerged; among them, that "know thyself" was a command to study the physical properties of the human body.
During the 19th and 20th centuries, the maxim acquired several new associations. It was frequently quoted in German philosophy and literature, by authors such as Kant, Hegel and Goethe; it was cited as an analogue of "tat tvam asi" ("that thou art"), one of the "Great Sayings" of Hinduism; and it took on an important role in the developing discipline of psychoanalysis, where it was interpreted as an injunction to understand the unconscious mind. ..
The Things They Carried brought me here
Curt Lemon
Married With Children brought me here...
yooooooooooooo same
"How to Talk to Girls at Parties" brought me here.
Pues Stephanie my memories brought me here
The same ! I’m reading when lemon got blown to smithereens
I like these kind of Songs.
I lost both of my ears in a machine accident. This was the last song I heard and I cherish it.
Awesome voice's
Nice voice and rhythm. Though it's my first time to listen to this song, it comes like an old friend and calls up some of my best memories.
the best