Robert Paulson
Active Member
well i've been up all night with pain and have no meds, so i'm sitting here hooked up to my sten machine trying to pass the time. i thought i would share some quotes that i have collected together as my favorites (or at least some of them). i am an agnostic, so some of them may not be for everybody. enjoy...
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
- Andre Malraux[FONT="][/FONT]
[FONT="]Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- [/FONT][FONT="]Will Durant[/FONT]
[FONT="]Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
- [/FONT][FONT="]Edward Abbey[/FONT]
[FONT="]Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- [/FONT][FONT="]Thomas H. Huxley[/FONT]
[FONT="]There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
- [/FONT][FONT="]Franz Kafka[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]
[FONT="]There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
- [/FONT][FONT="]P. J. O'Rourke[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
- Thomas Szasz
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
- Vannevar Bush
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
- Christopher Hampton
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
- Andre Malraux[FONT="][/FONT]
[FONT="]Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- [/FONT][FONT="]Will Durant[/FONT]
[FONT="]Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
- [/FONT][FONT="]Edward Abbey[/FONT]
[FONT="]Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- [/FONT][FONT="]Thomas H. Huxley[/FONT]
[FONT="]There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
- [/FONT][FONT="]Franz Kafka[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]
[FONT="]There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
- [/FONT][FONT="]P. J. O'Rourke[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
- Thomas Szasz
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
- Vannevar Bush
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
- Christopher Hampton