Intersting Quots

Blaise Pascal :

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

I LOVE that quote, and sadly think it's really spot-on.

I am glad you LOVE it.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
"Ernest Hemingway"

Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. [laughs] Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me "V" - Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

Within your lifetime will, perhaps,
As souvenirs from distant suns
Be carried back to earth some maps
Of planets and you'll find that one's
So hard to color that you've got
To use five crayons. Maybe, not.
- Marlow Sholander, "Maybe"

Who gathers the withered rose? - William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar." - Niccoli Machiavelli, The Prince

Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window. - Jules Renard, Journal, 1906

The day was counting up its birds and never got the answer right. - Author Unknown

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) - Arthur Schopenhauer

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood? - Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. - H.L. Mencken

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens. - H.L. Mencken

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. - H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned? - Alan Moore, Watchmen

when man determined to destroy
himself he picked the was
of shall and finding only why
smashed it into because.
- E.E. Cummings

No man can walk out on his own story - Spirit of the West, Rango.

All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string. - Heraclitus

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
"Albert Camus"

Dear Exostosis, thanks for sharing. It is amazing observation from "Heraclitus" I use it in my poetry, I thought it was only me. Thousands years ago he saw that!!

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend "

Henri Bergson

On art:

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
- Oscar Wilde

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
- Albert Camus

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."

Socrates

"I'm an old man and I've seen many troubles...but most of them never happened."

Mark Twain.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
"Albert Camus

^ thanks for the quotes, that one caught my attention.

You welcome

William Blake:

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we only owe the truth" Voltaire

And dear Micheal that was the truth!!

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Karl Marx

"And mankind is naught but a single nation"
Quran

"Never compare yourself to anyone, if you do the only thing you would be doing is insulting yourself"

- Bill Gates -

"Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that chasing it is such a fool's errand, is that happiness isn't a goal in itself but is only an aftereffect. It's the consequence of having lived in the way that we're supposed to -- by which I don't mean ethically correctly so much as just consciously, fully engaged in the business of living. In this respect it resembles averted vision, a phenomena familiar to backyard astronomers whereby, in order to pick out a very faint star, you have to let your gaze drift casually to the space just next to it; if you look directly at it, it vanishes. And it's also true, come to think of it, that the only stars we ever see are not the "real" stars, those cataclysms taking place in the present, but always only the light of the untouchable past."
- Averted Vision, Tim Kreider

Antonio Gramsci:

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Arthur Schopenhauer ::
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer:
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
or
ddavidd:
religions are God for idiots

Arthur Schopenhauer:
Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

"Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer."
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
- Voltaire

Exactly!!

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
Bertolt Brecht

The fundamental forces are yoked by consciousness. Everything's connected. Everyone. And this is how he sees things all the time. Every day.

It's a cruel joke. The mechanistic clockwork of reality hinging on a precious impossible defiance of entropy, on life. And the clockwork doesn't care. It's like - Like it's all just us, in here together. We're all we've got.

- Lex Luthor. All-Star Superman.

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him. - Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. - Frederick Douglass

"I'm not stuck in here with you.... you're stuck in here with me!" - Alan Moore, The Watchmen

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

Rumi

"If people don't want to live up to your expectations, then why should you live up to there's"

- not sure by who -

^ Truth in that wow, reminds me not to be controlled by other's wishes for you but give your own life direction.

RM, love that one you just posted! Beautiful

"There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am."
~C. JoyBell C.

^^^ Thanks, I might have misconceived the quote as it was meant to mean that you wouldn't want people to live up to your expectations so why should you live up to others..etc etc

Edited Quote: "If your not expecting people to live up to your expectations, you shouldn't have to live up to there expectations"

Hmmm .... hope that makes more sense and much clearer in conveying a life/social message =P

Thanks POP

My favorite quot of all time ::

"man is condemned to freedom"
jan paul sartr
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"A belief that make no room for doubt is not a belief it is a superstition"
Jose Bergamin
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Martin Luterking::

"A lie cannot live."
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"A riot is the language of the unheard."
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"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

The real art is the art of distance: too close to each other we burn, too far we freeze.

Christian Bobin

I feel comfortable talking about misquotes in this thread because this is an international site
Confucius Say
The best way to keep your word is not to give it.

Confucius most likely never said many things he is given credit for because when translated the translator has to understand the English Language

Meena Krish

"Words, one's defender
yet tends to blunder
and fall,
at times pretender
a great offender
who brawls,
words that are tender
the heart surrenders
its all."

word up

I comprehend what you are saying and verify that your statement is true, my good (sister/ brother).

http://youtu.be/Ye1YNwfwQm4

PS I was not suggesting that any quotes above me are misquotes

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? - L.M. Montgomery.

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough their yours"

"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness, listen to it carefully"

Richard Bach

So true I like that

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Time is the distance between the perfection and the perfection lost,
the link of infinity to the zero!!

"Real meaning"

To know what is right and choose to ignore it is an act of a coward.
- Hatake Kakashi, Naruto

Some great reading in this thread. I had a poster of famous quotes at one stage but it got lost somewhere along the way. Here are some I do remember

'We don't inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children.'

'Only those who have gone too far can possibly know how far one can go.'

'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.'

'The only way to have a friend is to be one.'

'Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.'

"Quots" really?

YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, are merging. The new program will be called YouTwitFace.

^ Ha. Nice one.

A man is a servant to time; a slave to the future, an onlooker to the present, master perhaps, of the past and always the victim to chance and circumstance. Man is at his best when doing what he loves most and at his worst when doing nothing. Anything, right or wrong, can be justified, with enough time and reasons, right or wrong. Ten victories are forgotten with a single defeat. It used to be that I was afraid of dying alone. Now, more than anything else, I fear living alone. -Thomas Anthony Perez, Sr.

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not. - Soren Kierkegaard.

To the timid heart, to the child of unbelief and dread, That leaneth on his own weak staff, and trusteth the sight of his eyes, The evil he feared shall come, for the soil is ready for the seed. MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation. - HELEN KELLER, Optimism

Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world,
But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil;
And thou calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched. The sting of pain and the edge of pleasure are blunted by long expectation, For the gall and the balm alike are diluted by the waters of patience; And often thou sippest sweetness, ere the cup is dashed from thy lip, And drainest the gall of fear, while evil is passing by thy dwelling. - MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy

It is in those acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness--calling their denial knowledge. - GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch

"Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst." - Voltaire, Candide

Home is where the heart is, and if we do not feel at home hostility makes itself at home in our hearts

"Michael D Nalley"

There is no win with this people::
If you are sad they would call you: too depressed
When you are happy, they would say: He is happy go lucky
If you are non they would say: he is too numb.
When you are both they would call you: bipolar::

"... but mountain and valley, whether they exist or not, cannot exist separated from each other."

Reme Descartes