Favourite Quotes?

Don't necessarily have to be MGCBTSOOYG related....

Some of mine (at the moment anyway):

"If I point you to the way, and I stumble in that path or off that path it surely does not mean that it is not the right way. Pray for me, for I too am a seeker of truth."

-Leo Tolstoy

"I hope and I pray that there are still visionaries out there, but who are they? The capitalist youth generation are basically just sloganeering, logo wearing corporate little sluts for these humongous companies. It's all just a conspiracy devoid of soul."

- Lydia Lunch



"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.... "

-Omar N. Bradley

"Cogito, ergo Sum (I think, therefore I am)."- Rene Descartes

"In Germany they came first for the Communists and I didn't speak up

because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't

speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for

the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they

came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Pastor Martin Niemöller

"Tenet insanabile multos scribendi cacoëthes (The incurable itch of writing possesses many." - Juvenal

"The buck stops here."

"I think I am, therefore I am, I think"

"To wear your heart on you sleave is not a good idea. You should wear it inside where it works best"-Margeret Thatcher

"An eye for an eye and we shall all be blind"-Ghandi

"I am free of prejudice. I hate everyone equally."-Maybe Truman?

These are not word perfect. I think I have the people right

I have too many! Here's a few:

"You don't need to leave your room.

Remain sitting at your table and listen.

Don't even listen, simply wait.

Don't even wait.

Be quite still and solitary.

The world will freely offer itself to you.

To be unmasked, it has no choice.

It will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

- Franz Kafka



"Yes, Kalamas, it is proper that you have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you Kalamas, do not be led by reports, or tradition, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, nor by mere logic or inference, nor by considering appearances, nor by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, nor by the idea: 'this is our teacher'. But, O Kalamas, when you know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong, and bad, then give them up...And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them."

- Siddhattha (or Siddhartha, if yor prefer the Sanskrit spelling) Gautama (i.e. The Buddha)

"...the same fate awaits man and animal alike. One dies just like the other. They are the same kind of creature. A human being is no better off than an animal, because life has no meaning for either. They are both going to the same place - the dust. They both came from it; they will both go back to it. How can anyone be sure that a man's spirit goes upward while an animal's spirit goes down into the ground? So I realized then that the best thing we can do is enjoy what we have worked for. There is nothing else we can do. There is no way for us to know what will happen after we die."

Ecclesiastes 3:19-22 (Old Testament of the Christian Bible)

"It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd--uncanny and highly improbable. G. K. Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things. Why, of all possible worlds, this colossal and apparently unnecessary multitude of galaxies in a mysteriously curved space-time continuum, these myriads of differing tube-species playing frantic games of one-upmanship, these numberless ways of 'doing it' from the elegant architecture of the snow crystal or the diatom to the startling magnificence of the lyrebird or the peacock?"

- Alan Watts, THE BOOK



"They glared at her the way any intelligent persons ought to glare when what they need is a smoke, a bite, a cup of coffee, a piece of ass, or a good fast-paced story, and all they're getting is philosophy."

- Tom Robbins, STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER (Anything by Robbins is quotable, though.)

"Trust those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it."- variously attributed

"History...is a nightmare from which I am trying to Awake"

-Stephen Dedalus, from James Joyce's Ulysses

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Not sure on the author



By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.

Adolf Hitler

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic

Stalin

I could go on and on on favorit quotes but I will spare you all from this.

"There should be no such thing as fate"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along [...] the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. "

- Hermann Goering

The latter one is almost blindingly significant, bearing in mind the "War On Terror".



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"chicks dig me, i wear coloured underwear"

"God gave humans the ultimate rule to be broken.

Touch, but dont Taste

Taste, but dont Chew

Chew, but dont Swallow."

-Devils Advocate

"Sometimes im afraid of what you'll tell me. Sometimes, im afraid that you'll tell me this is not a work of fiction. I can only hope that the answers will come to me in my sleep. I hope, that when the world comes to an end, i can breathe a sigh of relief. Cause there will be so much, to look forward to..."

-Donnie Darko

"I wonder, if we had met earlier in our lifetimes. Do you think, we could have been friends?"

-Cowboy Bebop

"One adventure is about to end. And anouther adventure will soon beguin. Please stay with me a little longer. I am so tired right now, so cold. I'm gunna go to sleep now. Good night"

-?

"Dont worry, everything is gunna be alright. Alot of things are gunna happen because of this. But they're gunna be alright."

-Taken

"Why should i live by someone eulse's expectations when i have my own?"

- 10 things i hate about you

meh, i have alot more but i dont feel like posting them all....

"Those who do not wish to fight in this world of eternal struggle, do not deserve to live."

- Adolf Hitler

"No idea is so pornographic as that which says something's legitimacy can be determined by a head count."

- Man Of Tradition

"I see little that passes for darkness in this halogen glare."

- Rex Piperis

"HoNk HoNk!"

- LCV Kitsune

"Sanity is for the weak."

- Theran Frederick

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

-dont know

Some men see things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that could be and ask why not?

-not an exact quote but you get the jist of it

"What a terrible thing it is to die of dehydration in the ocean. Must you salt your truth so heavily, that it no longer satisfies your thirst?"-Nietzsche

not word for word, but the points still there.

"Futilities of futilities, all is futile!"

"Lo Yisa goy el goy cherev, lo yilmedu od milchama"

(Nation shall not lift sword against nation, nor shall they know war anymore)



"Oh Lord, my God,

I pray that these things never end.

The sand and the sea,

The rush of the water,

The crash of the heavens,

The prayer of man."

- Chana Sanesh.

That which does not kill me shall only make me stronger.

I put this somware else on this site but,

"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot. Or he can, but does not want to. Or he cannot and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. But, if God both can and wants to abolish evil, then how come evil is in the world?"

~Epicurus

quote:Originally posted by HJS:

That which does not kill me shall only make me stronger.

Another Nietzschean gem. I got unlazy and picked up a few of his works again.

"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the sense to it."

"Madness is rare in individuals- but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule."

"whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Good good stuff. Anybody devling deep into subconcious for truth should grab a nietzsche book or 2 for a good midwife. I must also pimp the philosophy of Derrida.

Nietzsche and Derrida, get 'em.

"It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society"

- not sure of author sorry

I kinda live my life by that quote.