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Here's a collection of quotes I've come across in my reading.
But first, the disclaimer! Some of the people quoted
on this page hold views that I totally disagree with or at least I don't
agree with completely. In other words, the fact that someone's quote is on
this page doesn't necessarily mean that I agree with their philosophies or
their way of living life.(i.e.-Nietzsche or Voltaire) Secondly, I don't even
necessarily agree with the thought behind all of the quotes on this page.
However, each one of the quotes on this page did, for one reason or another,
catch my eye. I either think it is funny, thought-provoking, interesting,
or just plain wierd. So basically what I'm trying to say is
to read these with the proverbial grain of salt, okay?? Good, now that we
have that out in the open, lets get to it...
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Nietzsche
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We are sorest bent by invisible hands.
There is always madness in love, and always a method in madness.
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow.
Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
Many a peacock hides his tail from every eye and calls it his pride.
What knoweth he of love who hath not been obliged to despise just what he loved.
One may indeed lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace, one nevertheless tells the truth.
A thing that is explained ceases to concern us.
One no longer loves one's knowledge sufficiently after one has communicated it.
The maturity of man; that means to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.
He who attains his ideal precisely thereby surpasses it.
There is innocense of admiration; it is possesed by him to whom it has not yet occured that he himself may be admired someday.
-A PERSONAL FAVORITE- He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze too long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.
He who must be a creator in good and evil - verily, he must first
be a destroyer, and break values into pieces. Thus the highest evil is part
of the highest goodness. But that is creative goodness. Let us speak thereon,
ye wisest men, however bad it be. To be silent is worse; all unuttered truths
become poisonous. And whatever will break on our truths, let it break! Many
a house hath yet to be built. - from "Thus Spake Zarathustra"
Love itself is only a desire for possession; courtship is combat, and mating is mastery.
(Quoting Benjamin Constant) Love is of all feelings the most egoistic; and in consequence it is, when crossed, the least generous.
When a man is in love, he should not be permitted to make decisions affecting his entire life. It is not given to man to love and to be wise.
The man who does not wish to be merely one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
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Plato
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Where there are a thousand faiths, we are apt to become skeptical of them all.-Will Durant paraphrazing Plato, from "The Story of Philosophy"
For injustice is censured because those who censure it are afraid of suffering, and not from any scruple they might have of doing injustice themselves.-from "The Republic"
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind
Men engrossed in the pursuit of money are unfit to rule a state.-Will Durant, paraphrazing Plato
Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
A just man is a man in just the right place, doing his best, and giving the full equivalent of what he receives.-Will Durant, paraphrazing Plato
We have always goodly stock in us of that which we condemn.- Will Durant, paraphrazing Plato
He who sees things grow from their beginning will have the finest view of it.
A friend is one soul in two bodies.
The great majority of men are natural dunces and sluggards; in any system whatever these men will sink to the bottom.- Will Durant, paraphrazing Plato
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Random
Quotes
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Celebrate we will, for life is short but sweet for certain.- Dave Matthews' Band
Culture of Victimhood- "Nothing I do is my fault. My family is dysfunctional,
and my parents won't empower me. Consequently, I have not self-actualized.
My behavior is addictive functioning in a disease process of toxic codependency.
I need holistic healing and wellness before I will accept any responsibility
for my actions." -Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes
It is easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission.-unknown
I'm an idealist...I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.- Carl Sanberg
He who pees into the wind wears yellow socks.-No idea!!
There are plenty of fish in the sea, so be careful what you bait your hook with, lest you lose your pole.-Dwayne Mitchell
Until you find something worth dying for, you're not really living.-Rebecca St. James, from her album "God"
It's better to be pissed off than pissed on!-unknown
-PERSONAL FAVORITE AND MOTTO IN LIFE- Football (English futebal, known to us as soccer)is not a matter of life or death, it's much more important than that.-Shankley
Expectation is the death of gratitude.-my friend Veronica, not sure who she got it from.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you!-don't remember who said this.
If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence that you ever tried.-same guy as in the one above.
It's not who you know, it's who knows you...
He who dies with the most toys still dies.
He who will stand for nothing will fall for anything.-unknown
He who aims for nothing in life usually hits it.-unknown
Never, never, never, never quit.-Winston Churchill
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.-unknown
Let them obey who know not how to rule.-Shakespeare
Reputation is what men think you to be- character is what God knows you to be.-unknown
We know what we are, but not what we may be.-Shakespeare
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the joys of life can be so fine and deeply affecting that the heart is nearly stilled by astonishment.-Dean Koontz *ANOTHER PERSONAL FAVORITE OF MINE.
The first rule of holes: When you're in one, stop digging.- I don't remember!
Budget- a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.- A.A. Latimer.
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.-Cullen Hightower.
If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.-Sir James Goldsmith
In 3 words I can sum up everything I've learned about life; It goes on.-Robert Frost
To get something done a committee should consist of no more than 3 people, 2 of whom are absent.-Robert Copeland
I don't claim to know it all, but I aspire to know the most.-Grits, off the album "Grammatical Revolution"
If life rewards just a bag of lemons, then learn to make lemonade.-don't know who originated it, but I heard it on the album "Out of the Dust", by Human.(another cool Christian band)
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Let us seek the happiness in other; but for ourselves, perfection - whether it bring us happiness or pain. - Immanuel Kant
The postulate of immortality...must lead to the supposition of the existence of a cause adequate to this effect; in other words, it must postulate the existence of God. - Kant
History is "the art of choosing, from among many lies, that one which most resembles the truth." - Rousseau
Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. - Bertrand Russell (another reason I think the fact that I am required to take like 50 math courses in college is just nuts!)
Reason is man's imitation of divinity. - Santayana
I believe in nothing immortal... No doubt the spirit and energy of the world is what is acting in us, as the sea is what rises in every little wave; but it passes through us; and, cry as we may, it will move on. Our privilege is to have perceived it as it moved. - Santayana
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein
God is everywhere center and nowhere periphery. - Blaise Pascal
'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. - David Hume (I laughed out loud when I read this one! Quite possibly the only time anyone has laughed period while reading a book by Hume. Good heavens, have you read the man?! Deep stuff...)
To be ignorant and simple now--not to be able to meet the enemies on their ground
--would be to throw down our weapons, and to betray our uneducated brethren who have,
under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy
must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. - C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
The one thing I know for sure today is that there is a God and that he loves me. - Leigh Nash, lead singer from Sixpence None The Richer
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Francis
Bacon
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism. But depth in philosophy
bringeth men's minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh
upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further;
but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together,
it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Money is like muck, not good unless it be spread.
The Creator has given us souls equal to all the world, and yet satiable not even with a world. *editor's note-I like that one a lot...
My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and knowledge mind; a man is but what he knoweth.
Men ought to know that in the theatre of human life, it is only for gods and angels to be spectators.
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Voltaire
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Books rule the world, or at least those nations in it which have a written language; the others do not count.
When once a nation begins to think, it is impossible to stop it.
It must be a consolation to animals to see that people with minds are often no better than they.- Frederick the Great, speaking of Voltaire and his group of philosophers.
I renounce a study which overwhelms the mind without illuminating it.- Voltaire's wife (this is why I despise Calculus and Chemistry)
History is, after all, nothing but a pack of tricks we play upon the dead. History proves that anything can be proved by history.
I am tired of all these people who govern states from the recesses
of their garrets...these legislators who rule the world at two cents a sheet...unable
to govern their wives or their households they take great pleasure in regulating
the universe.
After all, when one tries to change institutions without having changed the nature of men, that unchanged nature will soon resurrect those institutions.
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Arthur
Schopenhauer
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Character lies in the will, and not in the intellect.Character too is continuity of purpose and attitude: and these are will.
Life is a struggle against sleep: at first we win ground from it, which in the end it recovers. Sleep is a morsel of death borrowed to keep up and renew that part of life which has been exhausted by the day.
The motto of history should run "Eadem, sed aliter" (the same things, but in different ways.)
Everyone believes himself a priori to be perfectly free,
even in his individual actions, and thinks that at every moment he can commence
another manner of life, which just means that he can become another person.
But a posteriori, through experience, he finds to his astonishment
that he is not free, but subjected to necessity; that in spite of all his
resolutions and reflections he does not change his conduct, and that from
the beginning of his life to the end of it, he must carry out the very character
which he himself condemns, and as it were, play the part which he has undertaken,
to the very end.
Nothing is so fatal to an ideal as its realization.
What one human being can be to another is not a very great deal; in the end everyone stands alone, and the important thing is, who it is that stands alone... The happiness that we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings... The world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he looks at it... Since everything that exists or happens for a man exists only in his consciousness, and happens for him alone, the most essential thing for a man is the constitution of his consciousness... Therefore it is with great truth that Aristotle says "To be happy is to be self-sufficient".
But happiness dies when it is not shared. (Durant paraphrazing Schopenhauer)
Youth expects too much of the world; pessimism is the morning after optimism...
Thinkers begin to realize that thought without action is a disease. (Durant paraphrazing Schopenhauer)
If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world...
You can also look upon our life as an episode unprofitably disturbing the blessed calm of nothingness.
If the act of procreation were neither the outcome of a desire nor accompanied by feelings of pleasure, but a matter to be decided on the basis of purely rational considerations, is it likely that the human race would still exist?
For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely that in expectation of which they lived.
...for boredom is nothing other than the sensation of the emptiness of existence.
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
To free a man from an error is not to deprive him of anything but
to give him something: for the knowledge that a thing is false is a piece
of truth. No error is harmless: sooner or later it will bring misfortune
to him who harbours it. Therefore deceive no one, but rather confess ignorance
of what you do not know, and leave each man to devise his own articles of
faith for himself.
But I console myself with the thought that, with controversies and mineral baths alike, the only real effect is the after-effect.
The world is my idea.
All genuine thought and art is to a certain extent an attempt to put big heads on small people: so it is no wonder the attempt does not always come off.
Indeed, most people have - in their hearts even if not consciously - as the supreme guide and maxim of their conduct the resolve to get by with the least possible expenditure of thought, because to them thinking is hard and burdensome.
Man is at bottom a dreadful wild animal.
(speaking of human wickedness and consequent misery) Then you will
see that they balance one another; you will become aware of the existence
of an eternal justice, that the world itself is its own universal Last Judgement,
and you will begin to understand why everything that lives must atone for
its existence, first by living and then by dying.
The outcome however is a moral one, namely this, that by what we do we know what we are, just as by what we suffer we know what we deserve.
The Fate of the ancients is nothing other than the conscious certainty that all events are bound firmly together by the chain of causality and thus occur with strict necessity, so that the future is already totally fixed and precisely determined, and can no more be altered than the past can.
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability. He who is without hope is also without fear: this is the meaning of the expression 'desperate'.
When will crowds out knowledge we call the result obstinacy.
There is no absurdity so palpable that one could not fix it firmly in the head of every man on earth provided one began to imprint it before his sixth year by ceaselessly rehearsing it before him with solemn earnestness.
A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.
(speaking on pantheism in general) It would clearly have to be a very ill-advised God who knew of nothing better to do than to transform himself into a world such as this one.
(speaking on pantheism in general) But that a being equipped with
these should have transplanted himself into a situation such as this world
represents is frankly an absurd idea: for our situation in the world is obviously
one into which no intelligent, not to speak of all-wise being would transplant
himself.
Only the Protestants, with their obstinate Bible religion, have refused to let themselves be deprived of everlasting punishment in Hell. Much good may it do 'em - one might say maliciously...
For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people - the less, indeed,
other people can be to him. - from The Wisdom of Life
True, if quality of intellect could be made up for by quantity, it might be worth while to live
even in the great world; but unfortunately, a hundred folls together will not make one wise man. - from The Wisdom of Life
The ordinary life of everyday, so far as it is not moved by passion, is tedious and insipid, and if it
is so moved, it soon becomes painful. - from The Wisdom of Life
It is no use to complain of low aims; for, whatever people may say, they rule the world. - from
The Wisdom of Life, quoting Geothe
Wife and children I have not reckoned amongst a man's possesions: he is rather in their possession.
-from The Wisdom of Life �*wonderful argument for permanent bachelorhood
It is quite true that pride is something which is generally found fault with, and cried down; but
usually, I imagine, by those who have nothing upon which they can pride themselves. - from The Wisdom of Life
No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very adventageous thing for the fools. - from
The Wisdom of Life
Of course, it is no easy matter to be polite; in so far, I mean, as it requires us to show great respect
for everybody, whereas most people deserve none at all; and again in so far as it demands that we should feign the most lively interest
in people, when we must be very glad that we have nothing to do with them. To combine politeness with pride is a masterpiece of wisdom. -
from The Wisdom of Life
Life is such a poor business that the strictest economy must be exercised in its good things. - from
The Wisdom of Life
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Herbert
Spencer
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"Metaphysics is a mirage." As Michelet put it, it is "the art of befuddling one's self methodically."
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Douglas
Adams
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From "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy":
He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers to the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones till it now said something it had never said to him before, which was "Yes".
Arthur Dent's (and everyone else's) prayer:
Part 1: "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen."
Part 2: "Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen..."
God's final message to His Creation - "Sorry for the inconvenience".
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. -Bertrand Russell
Here at last We shall be free;
�The Almighty hath not built here for his envy,
�Will not drive us hence:
�Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
�To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
�Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. -John Milton, Paradise Lost
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? -Ayn Rand
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. -Niccolo Machiavelli
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -Galileo Galilei
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy. -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. -Anonymous
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. -Kierkegaard
Regarding public freedom: "It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny." -James Fenimore Cooper
Regarding personal freedom: "The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints." - Edmund Burke
I can do no more justice to the awesome wonder-filled theme called love than a child can grasp a star. Still by reaching toward the star the child may call attention to it and even indicate the direction one might look to see it. So, as I stretch my heart toward the high, shining love of God, someone who has not before known about it may be encouraged to look up and have hope. - A.W. Tozer from "Knowledge of the Holy
True faith depends not upon mysterious signs, celestial fireworks, or grandiose dispensations from a God who is seen as a rich, benevolent uncle; true faith as Job understood, reacts on the assurance that God is who He is. - Charles Colson, from Loving God
Satisfy me not with the lesser of you
Find me no solace in shadows of the True
No ordinary measure of extraordinary means
The depth, the length, the breadth of you and nothing in between.
- Beth Moore from Things Pondered
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Okay, here's a section that most women will probably not find nearly
as humorous as I did. Nietzsche had some really wierd views on women, and
I just find them absolutely hilarious. I'm not saying I agree with them,
I just find them crazy enough to post on this page! And since this is my
page, I guess I'm allowed to post what I want right? SO, here they are, and
a giant apology from me to all of you who don't find any enjoyment in these
whatsoever...
Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution-it is called pregnancy.-Nietzsche
Men are trained for war, and women for the recreation of the warrior.-Nietzsche
Man, in his soul, is merely evil; woman, however, is mean.-Nietzsche
Thou goest to woman? Do not forget thy whip!-Nietzsche
In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.-Nietzsche
Where there is neither love or hatred in the game, woman's play is mediocre.-Nietzsche
Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm. -Nietzsche
In the poker game of life, women are the rake!-from the movie "Rounders"
The true man wants two things, danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, the most dangerous plaything!-Nietzsche
Woman is an unfinished man, left standing on a lower step in the scale of development. -Durant, quoting from Plato
Woman will be the last thing civilized by man.- Meredith
When the laws gave women equal rights with men, they ought also to have endowed them with masculine intellects.- Schopenhauer
Women are suited to being the nurses and teachers of our earliest childhood precisely because they themselves are childish, silly and short-sighted, in a word big children, their whole lives long...-Arthur Schopenhauer
Women think in their hearts that the man's business is to make money and theirs is to spend it: where possible during the man's lifetime, but in any case after his death.-Arthur Schopenhauer
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