My favorite:
“Life has exactly zero survivable outcomes, have fun.”
“I’d never belong to any club that would have me as a member”
-Marx (Groucho)
“The real battle of life is one of ideas. It is being fought out by the few against the many. On the one side is the constructive and creative thought, on the other side the destructive and negative thought. The creative thought is dominated by an ideal, the passive thought is dominated by appearances. On both sides are men of science, men of letters, and men of affairs.” – F.H. Burgess
“Temples have their sacred images, and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind; but in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.” – Jonathan Edwards.
So … what are you slave to? :0)
[quote]MrChill wrote:
The creative thought is dominated by an ideal, the passive thought is dominated by appearances.[/quote]
“If the creative thought is dominated by an ideal, the passive thought is dominated by reality”
So by corollary reality is dominated by apperances.
And if reality is falsehood then the ideal is the Ultimate Reality.
; )
[quote]MrChill wrote:
and to these they all pay universally a ready submission." – Jonathan Edwards.
So … what are you slave to? :0)[/quote]
The image of a powerful male.
“…and your craving will be for your husband, and he will dominate you.” Genesis 3: 16
I defied the truthfulness of this quote until the day I found love rise within me in the presence of a compatible male.
Resistance was futile. Submission to his will was a constant feature of my state of love. As sure as the the sun would set I would rise longing for his call.
And I had to eat my words because I thought I was uncaughtable!
: P
“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”
- Charlotte Whitton
I’m mad and I’m black, but I’m not Lou Rawls! Disappeared for a year, now I’m back, ya’ll!
LL Cool J
“There have never been warriors in the past, nor will there ever be one in the future. Warriors can only exist now!”
- Socrates, The way of the peaceful warrior.
“You have to learn to live with what you cannot rise above”
Bruce Springsteen (If memory serves,but I’m open to ,and would appreciate, correction if I’m wrong)
[quote]Neuromancer wrote:
“You have to learn to live with what you cannot rise above”
Bruce Springsteen (If memory serves,but I’m open to ,and would appreciate, correction if I’m wrong)[/quote]
Don’t learn to live with what you cannot rise above - hide beneath it.
Alpha F, in self-denial.
There. I’ve corrected it. Is that better?
: p
[quote]Alpha F wrote:
Neuromancer wrote:
“You have to learn to live with what you cannot rise above”
Bruce Springsteen (If memory serves,but I’m open to ,and would appreciate, correction if I’m wrong)
Don’t learn to live with what you cannot rise above - hide beneath it.
Alpha F, in self-denial.
There. I’ve corrected it. Is that better?
: p
[/quote]
Much appreciated hehehe…
It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
C. S. Lewis
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis
“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky at once, that would be like the splendour of the mighty one. I am become death, destroyer of worlds.”
-R.J.Oppenheimer quoting the Bhagavad Gita.
A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on!
Sir Winston Churchill
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him but because he loves what is behind him.
GK Chesterton
From The Hustler
Fast Eddie: “Didn’t leave you much.”
Minnesota Fats: “You left enough.”
Minnesota Fats: “Fast Eddie, let’s play some pool.”
The Dude: “Careful, there’s a beverage here man.”
Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as [wars, slavery, and the like]…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
[center]-- Robert Heinlein.[/center]
Everything that elevates an individual above the herd and intimidates the neighbour is henceforth called evil; and the fair, modest, submissive and conforming mentality, the mediocrity of desires attains moral designations and honors.
[center]-- Nietzsche[/center]
“Thou venomed doghearted lout!”
“[Thou art] a very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.”
Shakespear