Anarch
07-10-2004, 03:58 PM
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"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."
-Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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"To speak of right and wrong per se makes no sense at all. No act of violence, rape, exploitation, destruction, is intrinsically unjust, since life itself is violent, rapacious, exploitative, and destructive, and cannot be conceived otherwise."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
*****
"Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
*****
"No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers."
-Robert Heinlein
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"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
-Oscar Wilde
*****
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
-Albert Einstein
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"People only see what they are prepared to see."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them."
-Mark Twain
*****
"It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them."
-Mark Twain
*****
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike."
-Oscar Wilde
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time."
-Henry Louis Mencken
*****
"If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
-Anatole France
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."
-William Hazlitt
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"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."
-Edward de Bono
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possess one."
-Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe
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While asking something you don't know to others is a temporary shame, not asking at all causes a lifetime of shame)"
-Japanese proverb
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle
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"A very popular error—having the courage of one’s convictions. It is rather a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one’s convictions. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected."
-Charles Darwin
*****
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Nietzsche
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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
-T. S. Eliot
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"You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one."
-Edward Keating
*****
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
-Winston Churchill
*****
"It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm."
-Friedrick Nietzsche
*****
"Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity."
-Omar Idn Al-Halif
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"There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know."
-Roger H. Lincoln
*****
"After the meek inherit the earth, I think we should just kick their butts and take it from them."
-Jim Rosenburg
*****
"We cannot learn without pain."
-Aristotle
*****
"We are students of words: we are shut up in a schools and colleges and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
*****
"Money is coined liberty."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
*****
"The man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's."
-Aristotle
Go ahead and post more :p
"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."
-Augustus Saint-Gaudens
*****
"To speak of right and wrong per se makes no sense at all. No act of violence, rape, exploitation, destruction, is intrinsically unjust, since life itself is violent, rapacious, exploitative, and destructive, and cannot be conceived otherwise."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
*****
"Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
*****
"No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers."
-Robert Heinlein
*****
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
-Oscar Wilde
*****
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
-Albert Einstein
*****
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
*****
"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them."
-Mark Twain
*****
"It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them."
-Mark Twain
*****
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike."
-Oscar Wilde
*****
"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist."
-George Bernard Shaw
*****
"Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time."
-Henry Louis Mencken
*****
"If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
-Anatole France
*****
"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."
-William Hazlitt
*****
"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
*****
"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."
-Edward de Bono
*****
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possess one."
-Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe
*****
While asking something you don't know to others is a temporary shame, not asking at all causes a lifetime of shame)"
-Japanese proverb
*****
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle
*****
"A very popular error—having the courage of one’s convictions. It is rather a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one’s convictions. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
*****
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau
*****
"As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected."
-Charles Darwin
*****
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Nietzsche
*****
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
-T. S. Eliot
*****
"You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one."
-Edward Keating
*****
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
-Winston Churchill
*****
"It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm."
-Friedrick Nietzsche
*****
"Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity."
-Omar Idn Al-Halif
*****
"There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know."
-Roger H. Lincoln
*****
"After the meek inherit the earth, I think we should just kick their butts and take it from them."
-Jim Rosenburg
*****
"We cannot learn without pain."
-Aristotle
*****
"We are students of words: we are shut up in a schools and colleges and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
*****
"Money is coined liberty."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
*****
"The man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's."
-Aristotle
Go ahead and post more :p