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Here are some various 'quotes' taken directly and almost entirely from some of the books I've read. I felt the desribe my own opinions better than I could or they just struck me as interesting. Either way, they have made it on to this page. Me I like the automatic sliding doors at walmart. Its as if they are just stepping aside for you. Makes me feel important. Jello should have no fruit, marshmallows, or anything suspended in it. Its just uncalled for and strange. People don’t seem to understand randomness. It is technically possible to flip a coin and have it land on heads four million times in a row. The odds are indescribably small, but the chance does exist. One flips a coin and it lands on tails... what are the odds of it landing on tails the second time? It’s still fifty percent. The past is irrelevant with complete randomness. If two events occur at the same time, one calls it a coincidence. If the odds were small to an inconceivable degree, people call it a miracle. In truth it is probably just randomness going in your favor. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson Words are finite organs of the infinte mind. The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has in literature. For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. But this dream of love, thought beautiful, is only one scene in our play. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Let us make our education brave and preventitive. To a man of sense, travel offers advantages. I suffer everyday from the want of perception of beauty in people. The finshed man of the world must eat of every apple once.
Henry David Thoreau As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. for what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? there are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. It is best to avoid the begininngs of evil. But lo! men have become the tools of their tools! Simplify, Simplify Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations. I prefer the natural sky to an opium-eater's heaven. If I knew so wise a man as could teach me purity I would go to seek him forthwith. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. so our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effot to give up. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. A little thought is sexton to all the world.
Voltaire There is no fatigue too great where love is concerned . It is a maxim founded upon error that it is not allowable to commit a small fault in order that a greater good may result.
Marcus Aurelius Waste not the remainder of your life in thoughts about others. Be neither the tyrant nor the slave of any man. That which is not good for the swarm, is not good for the single bee. The lover of fame relies on other men's activities for his own good; the lover of pleasure on his sensations; but the man of understanding knows that his own acts are his good. Soon you will have forgotten all things; and soon all things will have forgotten you. Consider yourself to be dead, and to have completed your life up to the present time; then live out according to nature the remainder which is allowed you. You have no time or opportunity to read and to know everything; but you do have time and opportunity to check arrogance, to be superior to pleasure and pain and love of fame, and not to be vexed at stupid and ungrateful people, or even to care for them. Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad. Wipe out fancy; check desire; extinguish appetite; keep your ruling faculty in control. No longer talk about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be one. If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.
Oscar Wilde We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. It is always worth while asking a question, thought it is not always worth while answering one. It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves. One should always be a little improbable. It is in the brain that everything takes place. We know now that we do not see with the eye or hear with the ear. They are merely channels for the transmission, adequate or in adequate, of sense-impressions. It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, and that the skylark sings.
Ludwig Wittgenstein The face is the soul of the body. Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe. I squander an unspeakable amount of effort making an arrangement of my thoughts which may have no value at all. Thinking too has a time for ploughing and a time for gathering the harvest. Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. There is no more light in a genious than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point. Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them – that does not occur to them.
Plato Nothing great is easy. The begining is the most important part of any work. If he do nothing else, and holds no converse with the muses, does not even that intelligence which there may be in him, having no taste of any sort of learning or inquiry or thought or culture, grow feeble and dull and blind, his mind never waking up or receiving nourishment, and his senses not being purged of their mists? And he ends by becoming a hater of philosophy, uncivilized, never using the weapon of persuasion- he is like a wild beast, all violence and fierceness, and knows no other way of dealing; and he lives in all ignorance and evil conditions, and has no sense of propriety and grace. Language is more pliable than wax. The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener. The only rational patriotism is loyalty to the nation all the time, loyalty to the government when it deserves it. We all do no end of feeling, and mistake it for thinking. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
George Bernard Shaw Make a system even a fool can use and only a fool will want to. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Thomas More The wise appreciate physical beauty as a suppliment to a good disposition.
Aristotle All men by nature desire knowledge. |
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