The Quotations Page

[Social Democratic Confederation]

I don't know if this has been done before, but... I enjoy cruising the internets and finding those odd little sayings that might do us all some good to see... post 'em low!

 

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

 

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

[Tagmatium Rules]

"Lord, what can the harvest hope for, but for the care of the reaper man?"

-Death, Reaper Man.

 

One of my favourites from the Discworld series, primarily because its also one of the deepest from the series.

[Deltannia]

I love saving quotes from books and the internet. These two are both by Manuel Garcia O'Kelly from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, my favorite author. Everything out of Starship Troopers is golden, but here are good ones also:

 

I wasn't impressed. As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.

 

I'm tech by trade and know that an H-missile doesn't care how brave you are.

[Vocenae]

Give a man a fish and he'll feed himself for a day.

 

Give a man a religion and he'll starve to death praying for a fish.

[Tagmatium Rules]

"Give a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set fire to him and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

[Social Democratic Confederation]

"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Give a man fire, he's warm for a day, set him on fire and he won't need to know how to milk a cow..."

[Adaptus]

"I remain baffled... by their belief in the details of the Christian religion."

-Richard Dawkins.

 

"God is ontologically necessary, but not logically necessary. "

-John Polkinghorne.

 

"Why is there something rather than nothing?"

-Leibniz

[Social Democratic Confederation]

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion... but the conversation always ends in a conspiracy against the public."

-Adam Smith

[Social Democratic Confederation]

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."

 

"All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the rulers of mankind."

 

-Adam Smith

[Social Democratic Confederation]

"The more laws and order are made prominent,

The more criminals and bandits there will be. "

-Lao Tsu

 

"There are none more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free"

-Ludwig von Mises

 

"I think the internet is a great way to get on the net."

-Dan Quayle

[Social Democratic Confederation]

"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes."

- me

 

"In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it."

-I've no clue who said this... so I'll take credit

[Social Democratic Confederation]

"The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power

of simplicity. We have a tendency, it seems, to over complicate our lives

and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement

for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as

the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget

that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on

out there."

 

-Me (allegedly)

 

It seems that there's a certain point in intoxication at which I become very philisophical and enlightened. Apparantly, I said the above thing at a party the other night, and one of my more sober friends thought it profound enough to write down. I can't even remeber how I got home that night... I wonder if I really have the depth portrayed here.

[Adaptus]

"The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against it's existance, rather a condition of it."

 

Fredrick Nietzsche

 

"Perhaps the unconcievablity of a thing is not an argument against it's conceivability, but rather a condition of it."

 

The version I presented the Philosophy Forum community on discussing the possibility of their being a supreme being.