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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
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"Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"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
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"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
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"It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them."
-Mark Twain
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
-Winston Churchill
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"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
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"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
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"After the meek inherit the earth, I think we should just kick their butts and take it from them."
-Jim Rosenburg
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"We cannot learn without pain."
-Aristotle
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"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
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"Money is coined liberty."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's."
-Aristotle


Go ahead and post more :p

CONSTANTINVS MAXIMVS
07-10-2004, 04:03 PM
"A good friend will bail you out of jail after you engaged in a drunken rampage. A great friend is sitting next to you in the cell and says: 'Damn that was fun.'"
-anonymous

vanessa
07-10-2004, 10:27 PM
Here's some by de Sade that I particularily like.

"First ourselves, then the others: this is Nature's order of progression"

"...What madness!...What utter disdain of all principles. With what view in mind does Nature create hearts as depraved as these?..."

"Cruel enough not to be disarmed by those naive and ardent caresses which the most delicate of women lavished upon him, it was at the torch of love itself that the villain lighted the torch of vengeance."

"Virtue is not an illusion. It is not a matter of ascertaining whether something is good here, or bad a few degrees farther away, in order to assign it a precise determination of crime or virtue, and to make a certain of finding happiness therein by reason of the choice one has made of it. Man's only happiness resides in his complete submission to the laws of his land. He is either to respect them or to be miserable, there is no middle ground between their infraction and misfortune."

"Destruction being one of the chief laws of Nature, nothing that destroys can be criminal; how might an action which so well serves Nature ever be outrageous to her? This destruction that man is wont to boast is, moreover, nothing but an illusion; murder is no destruction; he who commits it does but alter forms, he gives back to Nature the elements whereof the hand of this skilled artisan instantly re-creates other beings..."

"Esteeming ourselves the foremost of the universe's creatures, we have stupidly imagined that every hurt this sublime creature endures must perforce be an enormity; we have believed Nature would perish should our marvellous species chance to be blotted out of existence, while the whole extirpation of the breed would, by returning to Nature the creative faculty she has entrusted to us, reinvigorate her, she would have again that energy we deprive her or by propagating our own selves..."

"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust."

"Persecutors male, persecutors female, tyrants, lackeys of tyrants, odious slaves to their own shameful vices, all of you, in short, whose only motive is vengeance or the hope of attaining rewards by basely serving the fury of those whose credit supports you or whose money feeds you--do you know to what I compare you? To that gang of naughty boys who, with sticks, go to goad the lion kept in an iron cage. They madden him through the iron bars, leaving the impression of the most vivid terror mixed with their teasing. If the beast had broken free, you would have seen all of them take to their heels, flinging themselves one on top of the other, and die of fright before being caught. That's you, my friends, that's you all over!"

vanessa
07-10-2004, 10:50 PM
"Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of gods must be prepared."

"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

"All art is immoral"

"Anybody can write a three-volumed novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature"

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless."

-Oscar Wilde

Timo
07-10-2004, 11:38 PM
"I bent my wookie."
"My cat's breath smells like cat food."
"And, when the doctor said I didn't have worms any more, that was the happiest day of my life."
"Me fail English? That's unpossible."
"The doctor said I wouldn't have so many nose bleeds if I kept my finger outta there."
"I found a moonrock in my nose!"
"That's my swingset, and that's my sandbox. I'm not allowed to go in the deep end. And this is where I met the leprechaun. He told me to burn things."
(To a wolf): "Will you be my mommy? You smell like dead bunnies..."
"Principal Skinner, I got car sick in your office."
"When i grow up, I want to be a principal or a caterpillar."
"I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning."
"Oh boy! Sleep! That's when I'm a Viking!"
"Slow down Bart! My legs don't know how to be as long as yours."
"I glued my head to my shoulder, now i have two owies."
Ralph Wiggum

"My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star."
"Dear Mr. President, There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three.
P.S. I am not a crackpot."
"Big deal! When I was a pup, we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home! Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions!"
"The last time the meteors came, we thought the sky was on fire. Naturally, we blamed the Irish. We hanged more 'n a few."
"Now where's my card. Ok, I'm an elk, a communist, the president of the gay and lesbian comittee for some reason, oh here it is. The Stone cutters."
Grandpa Simpson

vanessa
07-11-2004, 12:22 AM
LOL Timo you are Ralph Wiggum :p

"Oh boy! Sleep! That's when I'm a Viking!"

Anarch
07-11-2004, 08:06 AM
'A true friend stabs you in the front'
- Oscar Wilde
'Blood alone moves the wheels of history'
- Benito Mussolini
'It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything'
- Tyler Durden, Fight Club
'The things you own - they end up owning you'
- Tyler Durden, Fight Club
'I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may'
- Tyler Duden, Fight Club.
'I look around and see the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential - and I see it squandered. Goddamnit, an entire generation, pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves in white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** we don't need. We have no great war, no great depression. Our great war's a spiritual war, our great depression - is our lives. We've all been raised to believe one day we'll all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off'
- Tylder Durden, Fight Club.
'You have to accept the possibility that God doesn't like you. In all probability, he hates you. F#ck god, f#ck redemption. We're god's unwanted children, SO BE IT! First, you have to know, not fear, know that some day you are going to die. Until you know that and embrace that, you are useless'
- Tyler Durden, Fight Club

Ixabert
07-11-2004, 10:17 AM
"A female genius is a contradiction in terms, for genius is simply intensified, perfectly developed, universally conscious maleness."
-Otto Weininger