Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

brushing with hasty steps the dews away

to meet the sun upon the upland lawn.

~ thomas gray ~

[Turtle]

when angry, count to four. when very angry, swear. ~ mark twain

[freeztar]

"Where does Congress get off saying that people have a right to Habeas Corpus? It's like they're holding these truths to be self-evident!" - S. Colbert

[Turtle]

do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. ~ confucius

[Pyrotex]

I may not be perfect,

 

But parts of me are excellent.

 

~Ashleigh Brilliant

[pamela]

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

f. h. amiel

[Turtle]

i think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. they're sort of like dogs. huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur. ~ jack handy

[Pyrotex]

I don't need a lot of love,

 

But I do need a steady supply.

 

~Ashleigh Brilliant

[pamela]

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

f. nietzsche

[Pyrotex]

Nietsche is Pietsche.

 

~Ogden Nash :shrug:

[Turtle]

the nectarine, and curious peach,

into my hands themselves do reach;

stumbling on melons, as i pass,

ensnared with flowers, i fall on grass.

~ andrew marvell ~

[alexander]

excerpt from chat:

 

"Oh, that was like 2 hours ago"

"Ok, either say, that was like 15 hours ago, or say like it was, an hour ago, don't under over-exaggerate!"

 

And i don't agree with Nietzsche, he's overly subjective, right, and puts forth his thoughts as the truth of the highest order. At times it seems that even thought he does not seem to approve the ways of the people, he puts forth his idea with the same European rationalism, European philosophy as the one he does not approve, and therefore it seems that he frequently contradicts what he says by how he writes.

[coldcreation]

"Truly, for a dog of the depths you take your food too much from the surface"

 

(Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, January 1883)

 

 

 

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[pamela]

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

f. nietzsche

[coldcreation]

“O my brothers, up to now there has been only supposition, not knowledge, concerning the stars and the future: and therefore there has hitherto been only supposition, not knowledge, concerning good and evil”

 

(Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1883 p. 219).

 

 

 

 

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[alexander]

Yes, it's a perfect scale model of the universe's largest bottle. I put a tiny spaceship inside to keep it from being boring.

~ Hubert J. Farnsworth

[alexander]

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

~ Terry Pratchett