Favorite Quotes

[goku]

slider, sniff sniff

you stink!

 

tom cruse - top gun

[Turtle]

I am who I am, and you're not. ~Beatrix Terranna Goodwon

[InfiniteNow]

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.

~ Eden Ahbez

[Michaelangelica]

From Simran Khurana,

Your Guide to Quotations.

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Find a Wealth of Wisdom in Each Short Wise Quote

Contrary to popular belief, wisdom need not always be verbose. Sometimes wisdom is passed on in the most subtle ways. It then becomes the prerogative of the recipient to recognize and accept it. Given below are some pearls of wisdom in the form of a few short wise quotes.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts.

 

William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few.

 

Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke.

 

George Bernard Shaw

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

 

Francis David

We need not think alike to love alike.

 

Doris Day

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Oscar Wilde

True friends stab you in the front.

 

Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

 

John Junor

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

 

Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing.

 

Edwin Land

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

[InfiniteNow]

We are where we are. This is where McCain says we can question him. We can question him only in the pastless and futureless present... This infinitely thin slice of zero dimensional theoretical plot point of the "now," where eternity intersects time. And, if that's what he's saying, the question is not, "Senator, how did you vote," or, "Senator, when will we withraw," but, "Senator McCain, are you high?"

 

~Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report: March 4, 2008

 

 

 

EDIT: Available here -

Experience | The Colbert Report | Comedy Central

[freeztar]

We are where we are. This is where McCain says we can question him. We can question him only in the pastless and futureless present... This infinitely thin slice of zero dimensional theoretical plot point of the "now," where eternity intersects time. And, if that's what he's saying, the question is not, "Senator, how did you vote," or, "Senator, when will we withraw," but, "Senator McCain, are you high?"

 

~Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report: March 4, 2008

 

 

 

EDIT: Available here -

Experience | The Colbert Report | Comedy Central

 

From the same video:

 

He's experienced enough to know that some experience is relevant, like the fact that he has expereince, while other experience, like his other experiences, are irrelevant.

[Turtle]

The key to appreciating art is all in how you hold your mouth.

~ Roger Thelonious George ~

[freeztar]

"[W]hen we destroy God's creation, it's similar to ripping pages from the Bible"

-Jonathan Merritt, one of the signatories on the Southern Baptists' new call to action on climate change

[freeztar]

"How many people are stuck in traffic on their way to ride a stationary bike at a health club?"

-Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) at a National Bike Summit last week

[Turtle]

I regard the idea of an afterlife, a fairytale for people who are afraid of the dark.

- Steven Hawking

[Michaelangelica]

"You can fix all the world's problems in a garden. . . .

Most people don't know that"

FROM

http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-content/permaculture.swf

[InfiniteNow]

Brave New World Revisited (1958) by Aldous Huxley

 

 

There are two kinds of propaganda -- rational propaganda in favor of action that is consonant with the enlightened self-interest of those who make it and those to whom it is addressed, and non-rational propaganda that is not consonant with anybody's enlightened self-interest, but is dictated by, and appeals to, passion. Where the actions of individuals are concerned there are motives more exalted than enlightened self-interest, but where collective action has to be taken in the fields of politics and economics, enlightened self-interest is probably the highest of effective motives. If politicians and their constituents always acted to promote their own or their country's long-range self-interest, this world would be an earthly paradise. As it is, they often act against their own interests, merely to gratify their least creditable passions; the world, in consequence, is a place of misery. Propaganda in favor of action that is consonant with enlightened self-interest appeals to reason by means of logical arguments based upon the best available evidence fully and honestly set forth. Propaganda in favor of action dictated by the impulses that are below self-interest offers false, garbled or incomplete evidence, avoids logical argument and seeks to influence its victims by the mere repetition of catchwords, by the furious denunciation of foreign or domestic scapegoats, and by cunningly associating the lowest passions with the highest ideals, so that atrocities come to be perpetrated in the name of God and the most cynical kind of Realpolitik is treated as a matter of religious principle and patriotic duty.

 

~Aldous Huxley

[freeztar]

Wonderful quote from a wonderful mind...

 

"A Brave New World" is one of my all-time favorite books.

 

Other quotes from Mr. Huxley:

 

"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy."

 

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

 

"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."

 

"An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex."

 

"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."

 

"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation."

 

"Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying."

 

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

 

"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."

 

"I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."

 

"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."

 

"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

 

"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."

 

"Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

 

"My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger."

 

"One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."

 

"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."

 

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

 

"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."

 

"The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved."

 

"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."

[Boerseun]

"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?"

- Arthur C. Clarke.

[Boerseun]

"The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

Arthur C. Clarke

[Boerseun]

"The solution is an obvious one: Although we can hardly hope for a society in which formal organized religion is rejected, we can at least stop behaving as if religion is worthy of our collective respect."

 

- A.N. Wilson

[Turtle]

You can't pressurize the pot until you bung the holes. ~ Beatrix Terranna Goodone