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A Quote Thread....

" I thought that if I could light my farts I could fly to the moon, or atleast your anus and if not I could always use my penis as a pogo stick and that might be a way of getting around ".

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Shal...
 
I'm working on a minor in philosophy, I collect quotes from all kinds of sources, on all kinds of subjects usually based on truth and relevance. My absolute favorite person to read quotes from wasn't a philosopher or poet, but a scientist and a student of humanity. Here are a few of his wisest.

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

"Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being
should assume in time of peace, the solemn and unconditional obligation
not to participate in any war, for any reason or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect."

"Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value."

"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim of life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in it's result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

"Two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the Universe."

" The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If I had only known, I should have become a watchmaker."
All quotes listed are by Albert Einstein
 
what do you think of these quotes?

"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist."

"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live"

"We will not know unless we begin"

"Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage"

"The only limit to our realisation of tommorow will be our doubts of today"

"Nothing ever becomes real untill it's experianced"

"We become what we behold"

"Enthusiasm find the oppertunities and energy makes the most of them"

"For the resolute and determined there is time and oppertunity"

"All things are difficult before they are easy"

"In seeking happiness for others, you find it in yourself"

"Our deeds determine us and much as we determine our deeds"

"Integrity needs no rules"

"Power is not found by striking hard and often but by striking true"

"The highest reward for a persons toll is not what they get from it, but what they become by it"

"Our patiance will achieve more than our force"

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood"

"life is the result of dynamic opposites, form and chaos, substance and oblivion, light and dark and all the infinite varitions of ying and yang. When the pendulum swings in favour of one, it eventually swings back in favour of it's opposite and thus the balance of the universe is maintained."

a little pointless and wierd to some but I found that reading these was rather comforting, tell me what you think.

I obviously didn't make any of these up.
 
Re: what do you think of these quotes?

Sawboss said:

"The only limit to our realisation of tommorow will be our doubts of today"

"We become what we behold"

"All things are difficult before they are easy"

"In seeking happiness for others, you find it in yourself"

"Our deeds determine us and much as we determine our deeds"

"Integrity needs no rules"

"Power is not found by striking hard and often but by striking true"

"Our patiance will achieve more than our force"

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood"

"life is the result of dynamic opposites, form and chaos, substance and oblivion, light and dark and all the infinite varitions of ying and yang. When the pendulum swings in favour of one, it eventually swings back in favour of it's opposite and thus the balance of the universe is maintained."
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I found those quotes particularly valuable.
 
Profound quotes

Okay this is my first post in this part of bluelight, so I don't know if it's appropriate, but I was wondering if anyone had any little profound quotes, like Koans and such; since reading all these mind-boggling posts can be kind of exhausting and I think sometimes I'd prefer bitesized chunks of wisdom :) Here's mine for today:

"Matter is that which obeys completely"
 
Theory of Life

Theory of life:


"Drugs, Sex, Rock N Roll, Weed, Speed, Birth Control, Life's a bitch, wanna die? Fuck the Po-Po, Let's Get High!"
 
"We must find out what words are and how they function.
They become images when written down,but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself."
- W.S. Burroughs

My very favorite.........
"last night i dreamed that i was pursuing a director i was once in love with and he invited me into his home to tell me that he couldn't be with me. i sat at his kitchen table on the verge of tears. then he said to me, 'you once described a man's body as powerful. what is your definition of power now?' and i replied, 'power is being told you are not loved and not being destroyed by it.'"
- M A D O N N A
;) ;)
 
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