Post your favorite quotes and expressions here

[Tyrannus]

"Business and the art of war are the same thing as there is no difference between the two."

-Unknown person-

[nano-bug]

There is no softer pillow than a clear conscience.

[Tyrannus]

There is no softer pillow than a clear conscience.

Nanobug, remember to add who it is you're quoting from even if you come up with the expression yourself.

Clear conscience? Pssh.....

[nano-bug]

There is no softer pillow than a clear conscience.

Nanobug, remember to add who it is you're quoting from even if you come up with the expression yourself.

Clear conscience? Pssh.....

it was a French proverb, I believe.

Yeah, I didn't think the moral standard of my quote would mesh well with you cutthroat quote. Good night, sleep tight, haunted victor of the crushed and demolished faces of agony.

[Tyrannus]

Actually I relish in crushed agonizing faces of defeat. Helps me sleep well at night. Goodnight Nano.

[Stuart]

I remember Nano, how's the nightmarish depression? - Says one with nightmarish malaise.

[Tyrannus]

It's quite alright Stuart. Let the man post what he likes. This thread was made for everybody.

[Tyrannus]

A popular oldy, but a favorite of mine.

"What does not kill me, makes me stronger." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


Or if you prefer something absurd, but oddly makes a lot of sense....

"What does not kill you, makes you stranger." -Character Joker from the movie Batman: The Dark Knight-

[Duality]

[dionysos_pseudanor]

“Nietzsche hat mich kaputt gemacht.” ― Martin Heidegger

[Tyrannus]

"If you think you're are free, try going somewhere without money, okay?" Fucking brilliant Duality.

I've always said that freedom is only a extension of your bank account.

[Arcturus Descending]

““Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.””
Carlos Castaneda

and I love this one

“Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

[Pandora]

“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.” ― Epictetus.

[dionysos_pseudanor]

“One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.” ― Leo Strauss

[Mr Reasonable]

"The nature of the struggle is defined by the oppressor".

[Arcturus Descending]

I've always said that freedom is only a extension of your bank account.

^ If you change your perception, your reality may change.
Me and whoever else may have said it.

[Arcturus Descending]

I love this quote - it's on the bottom of a snow wolf picture I have on my living room wall -


If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected.
—Chief Seattle

[Arcturus Descending]

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
― Carl Sagan

*shivers*

[Helandhighwater]

"For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."

Albert Camus.

[Arcturus Descending]

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark




“To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.’ This is why the slaveholders must control what slaves hear and see and think. This is why reading and critical thinking are dangerous, indeed subversive, in an unjust society.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

[Arcturus Descending]

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran



Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw

[Arcturus Descending]

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein




First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

[Arcturus Descending]

Where wolf's ears are, wolf's teeth are near. (VS, c.19)
Viking quote



Anybody who offends a more powerful man can hardly expect to wear out many more new shirts
Viking quote



Do not expect to make headway with a frail sailcloth.



One should warn even a dim-witted troll if he sits naked by a fire

[Xyus]

"I am the totem of the Earth, the Phallus raised to pierce the sky; - this is the altar of the stars. But they are mere flowers of the garden; harvest them and adorn thyself.
Tear at the void and the lights therein; feast on infinities."
- Crowley

[Xyus]

"The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!"
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Demons)