Quotes

[headcase]

For any quotes you'd like to share. The rules are a bit loose, so post anything you deem intelligent or thought provoking. They're judged pretty subjectively though, if I think it's stupid, I'll delete it.

"To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious."
- Albert Einstein

"Insofar as the laws of mathematics are certain, they do not refer to reality; and insofar as they refer to reality, they are not certain."
- Albert Einstein

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein

"A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems shorter than a minute. But tell that same man to sit on a hot stove for a minute, it is longer than any hour. That's relativity."
- Albert Einstein

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
- Albert Einstein (A sentiment echoed by pyromaniac here. Great minds think alike?)

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."
- Mark Twain

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
- Mark Twain

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
- Winston Churchill

"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.

And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so.

How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
- Julius Caesar

[headcase]

"To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic."
- Humphrey Osmond

"I don't do drugs, I am drugs"
- Salvador Dalí.

And here's something I realised last night:

"I think, therefore I am."
- Frederick Neitzche

"I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can....."
- The Little Steam Engine that Could

[scissors]

"Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a kind of love"
-Charles Manson

[Maestro]

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
~Socrates

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
- WC Fields

[Paranoid Ecstasy]

“When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?” ~Marilyn Manson

“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.” ~Marilyn Manson

“People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.” ~Marilyn Manson

“This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.” ~Marilyn Manson

[ilovetoblowthingsup]

"If you can't ,you must, If you must, you can"

[Maestro]

It's a dangerous business walking out your front door.
~JRR Tolkien

[The Gein Configuration]

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible"
- Walt Disney

[Psychonaut]

"Though I strive for perfection, I wear my scars with pride"
-Anonymous

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight effectively, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects."
-Robert A. Heinlein

"Sweat Saves Blood"
-Erwin Rommel

"In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine."
-Erwin Rommel

[A Toxicated Mind]

Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind"
-Bob Marley.

[robding69]

"I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance." -- Christopher Marlowe


"The two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity." -- Friedrich Nietzsche


"One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conquerer; one kills everybody, one is a god." -- Jean Rostand

[dellio]

"To die for love is the height of ignorance, to not love is the height of knowledge"
-unknown

[Paranoid Ecstasy]

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." -Friedrich Nietzsche

“The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence” -Friedrich Nietzsche

"I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you." -Charles Manson

"I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in." -Charles Manson

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.” -Lewis Carroll

[high guard]

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
Tom Robbins

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox


This ones are my favorite:

"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
Aristotle

"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."
William Shakespeare

[hamster dood]

I don't remember where this quote comes from, but I think from M. B. Smith.

"The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary."

If anyone knows, tell me.

[high guard]

Originally Posted by hamster dood

I don't remember where this quote comes from, but I think from M. B. Smith.

"The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary."

If anyone knows, tell me.

The full quote is:

"The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price."
Vince Lombardi

[hamster dood]

Originally Posted by high guard

The full quote is:

"The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price."
Vince Lombardi

That's weird, my teacher said it was from a woman with the name so-so Smith..

Oh well thanks.

[high guard]

Originally Posted by hamster dood

That's weird, my teacher said it was from a woman with the name so-so Smith..

Oh well thanks.

May Smith. She might be the original author of the quote, I'm not sure....

[jrly]

"I hate quotes now tell me what YOU know" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[awsome]

my sig...

[uidwids]

Until they become conscience they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

- George Orwell "1984"


The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

-Chuck Palahniuk


We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

-Chuck Palahniuk


If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?

-Chuck Palahniuk


Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

-Chuck Palahniuk


If you love something set it free...but don't be surprised when it comes back with herpes.

-Chuck Palahniuk


These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward.

Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you're awake.

He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.

He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled.

And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.

-Chuck Palahniuk