Quotes

[endorphinz]

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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do...–Voltaire

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i've always loved that quote. i consider it a personal challenge and burden; one that i rarely meet nor bear successfully

here's one that i like but don't know the origin...i heard someone translate a tattoo and fell in love with it....the quote, not the tattoo. i'm not a body art guy..no offense to all ink lovers.

our souls are lights that cast shadows on eternity

if the author is obvious, please cast some light on this dim soul.

[Faust]

That is a good quote, interest1. If only humanity subscribed to it.

[Faust]

/\ Socrates?

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"I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone." - Scipio

[endorphinz]

variations on a theme:

Spent some time feelin' inferior
standing in front of my mirror
Combed my hair in a thousand ways
but I came out looking just the same

I stood stone-like at midnight, suspended in my masquerade
I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade
I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and I walked on a crooked crutch
I strolled all alone through a fallout zone and come out with my soul untouched
I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd, but when they said, "Sit down," I stood up
Ooh... growin' up

[mortalveneer]

Only the dead have seen the end of war. - Plato (supposedly)

All sins are murder, even as all life is war. - Robert Louis Stevenson

"But thought's the slave of life, and life's time's fool, and time, that takes survey of all the world, must have a stop." - Shakespeare

[interest1]

and a personal favorite...

[laika]

Compassion has no place in the natural order
of the world, which operates on the basis of necessity.
The laws of necessity are as unexceptional as the laws of gravitation.
The human faculty of compassion opposes
this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
To forget oneself, however briefly, to identify with a stranger
to the point of fully recognising her or him, is to defy necessity,
and in this defiance, even if small and quiet and even if measuring
only 60cm. X 50cm., there is a power which cannot be
measured by the limits of the natural order. It is not a
means and it has no end.

--john berger, "a man with tousled hair"

[zamb]

Compassion has no place in the natural order
of the world, which operates on the basis of necessity.
The laws of necessity are as unexceptional as the laws of gravitation.
The human faculty of compassion opposes
this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
To forget oneself, however briefly, to identify with a stranger
to the point of fully recognising her or him, is to defy necessity,
and in this defiance, even if small and quiet and even if measuring
only 60cm. X 50cm., there is a power which cannot be
measured by the limits of the natural order. It is not a
means and it has no end.

--john berger, "a man with tousled hair"

Beautiful M,
as you know this resonates deeply with me............

[Faust]

and a personal favorite...

Stalin to Hitler, 1942.

[MASUGNEN]

Stalin to Hitler, 1942.

»If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.« (Winston Churchill)

But I prefer the version: »If Hitler invaded Hell, I would help the Devil out.«

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My favorite quote on personal integrity: "Resolve: Fuck 'em, fuck 'em all...." - Robert Evans, "The Kid Stays In The Picture"

[interest1]

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Life is a comedy for those who think, a tragedy for those who feel.

–Horace Walpole, 1717-1797

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[Faust]

Life is a tragicomedy for those who think and feel.

- Faust, 2010

[interest1]

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The kinder, gentler version to the no-frills high school classic: Life sucks & then you die.
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