Carpe diem its allure. This is not the original sense of the phrase as used by Horace. In modern English, the expression "YOLO", meaning "you only live once", expresses a similar sentiment. In the 1989 American film "Dead Poets Society", the English teacher John Keating, played by Robin Williams, famously says: "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." Later, this line was voted as the 95th greatest movie quote by the American Film Institute. The television series "Community" later satirized the film with the recurring character of Professor Whitman, a comedically eccentric version of Williams' character who uses "Carpe
G. K. Chesterton against complacent acceptance of the conventional view of things. Chesterton's style and thinking were all his own, however, and his conclusions were often opposed to those of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. In his book "Heretics", Chesterton has this to say of Wilde: "The same lesson [of the pessimistic pleasure-seeker] was taught by the very powerful and very desolate philosophy of Oscar Wilde. It is the carpe diem religion; but the carpe diem religion is not the religion of happy people, but of very unhappy people. Great joy does not gather the rosebuds while it may; its eyes are