Favorite quotes

[The Enlightened One]

Does anybody have any quotes they would like to share?

 

[The Enlightened One]

"If ignorance is bliss, how would one know to be happy?"

 

[9Westy9]

“Attempting to debate with a person who has abandoned reason is like giving medicine to the dead.” - Thomas Paine

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

To be is to stand for.
- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

O men! Behold. We have created you all out of a male and a female, and have made you into nations and tribes, so that you might come to know one another.
- The Qur'an, Surah 49:13

 

[The Enlightened One]

"They misunderestimated me." - George W. Bush

 

[Renji]

"It is just my opinion... but I'm always right."

 

[9Westy9]

"I think, therefore I am" - Rene Descartes

 

[The Enlightened One]

"I think, therefore I am" - Rene Descartes

Wasn't that statement his way of proving he was alive or conscious?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

"For every man the world as it was on the first day, and as full of untold wonders for him who has eyes to see them." - T. H. Huxley

"Test all things; hold fast that which is good." - 1 Thessalonians 5:21

 

[Quintessence]

On that note, I strongly prefer "Estis, ergo sum" by Satish Kumar. You are, therefore I am.

 

[Panda]

"A civilised man should always know when to get drunk" Aruther C Clarke

 

[BSM1]

"Maybe we ain't us." The Little Rascals

 

[LegionOnomaMoi]

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
-Jack Handey

 

[Shadow Wolf]

"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Nietzsche

"If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it." Einstein

 

[MD]

“How can a three-pound mass of jelly that you can hold in your palm imagine angels, contemplate the meaning of infinity, and even question its own place in the cosmos? Especially awe inspiring is the fact that any single brain, including yours, is made up of atoms that were forged in the hearts of countless, far-flung stars billions of years ago. These particles drifted for eons and light-years until gravity and change brought them together here, now. These atoms now form a conglomerate- your brain- that can not only ponder the very stars that gave it birth but can also think about its own ability to think and wonder about its own ability to wonder. With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.” - VS Ramachandran

 

[The Enlightened One]

"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." - Abraham Lincoln

 

[jasonwill2]

"Satanists are born, they're not made like a Christian."

-SicKTanicK, owner of Serial Killin' Records on his song "Signs of the Diabolic"

 

[Shadow Wolf]

"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." - Abraham Lincoln

That reminds me of something Benjamin Franklin said, although I don't remember the wording it was something about getting a person to do a favor for you to get them to like you.

 

[jasonwill2]

"Controversy is just a word people use when they don't want to face difficult truths."

Me, at like age 18. It was spontaneous when talking to some girl. I think I was more thinking about tough realities though.

 

[oldbadger]

On Spike Milligan's grave stone......

'I told them I was ill........!'