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[ManBearPig]

Mine is:

“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?” - Friedrich Nietzsche

Though there is a different version of it here on page 341, which i am inclined to believe is the correct one. Anyone know why the two are different, and which is correct?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Wasn't Nietzsche British or something? Translation errors likely account for said differences.

 

[Turin39789]

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - Churchill

 

[ManBearPig]

Wasn't Nietzsche British or something? Translation errors likely account for said differences.

German. It looks like someone abbreviate the translation or something. In any case, i like it better. I just hate it when shit isnt true to form.

 

[overst33r]

Alright, forget it. I'll reroute the shipment to the Balkans. When they say they're gonna have a war, they keep their word. -Lord of War

Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. - Carl Sagan

 

[ohtwell]

"Is there air? You don't know!!!" - Guy Fleegman aka Crewman Number 6


: ) Amanda

 

[theprodigalrebel]

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
--- Douglas Adams

 

[datalink7]

There are a lot. Here is one I've liked recently:

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.
--Blaise Pascal

 

[xSauronx]

"fuck it"

no idea who to attribute that to, but i refer to it frequently

/used to keep a list, and lost it, so i said "fuck it"

 

[chipy]

"if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten."

for people who long for change, for something better, no matter what their age or circumstance, they have to make an attempt to bring about that change. pray for success, then go get it. you may not always get what you want, but you won't know until you try. life is about taking risks and putting yourself out there.

 

[nboy22]

"We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from ass holes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!"
-- Gary Johnston, Team America: World Police

 

[xanis]

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."
-- JFK

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
-- George Orwell

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

“Forgive him Theodotus: he is a barbarian and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”
- Caesar and Cleopatra, George Bernard Shaw

 

[eits]

"be the change you want to see in the world" -ghandi

 

[KeithTalent]

"And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit." - Martin Amis

Love that guy.

KT

 

[chipy]

"... God is love".
1 John 4:8

 

[Ichinisan]

My favorite quote is the double quote.

 

[buffaloe420]

Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is
of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as
long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the
other weakens you."

"But how do you know when a path has no heart, don Juan?"
"Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will
know it, and then you must choose another path."
"But how will I know for sure whether a path has a heart or not?"
"Anybody would know that. The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he
has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path."
"How should I proceed to ask the question properly, don Juan?"
"Just ask it."
"I mean, is there a proper method, so I would not lie to myself and believe the answer is yes when it really is no?"
"Why would you lie?"
"Perhaps because at the moment the path is pleasant and enjoyable."
"That is nonsense. A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. On the
other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it."

the path without a heart
will turn against men and destroy them. It does not take much to die, and to seek death is to seek nothing."
For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have a heart, on any path that may have a heart. There I travel, and
the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I travel - looking, looking,
breathlessly.

Carlos Castaneda
"The Teachings of Don Juan"

 

[Wanescotting]

"(you are)so far off the reservation, you have forgotten that you are an indian"

 

[brainhulk]

"I sort of have a goal. If I were to state it in words... I like to see moving things. They're boring when they don't move. A windmill that is not moving... can be nice from time to time... But most of the time, it's not even worth looking at. Now I want to move the windmill with the wind called ..."

 

[Locut0s]

Wasn't Nietzsche British or something?

LOL. This is now my new favourite quote.

 

[Locut0s]

Don't have any one favourite. So many good lines and paragraphs from my fav books.

 

[ForumMaster]

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#Time_Enough_for_Love_.281973.29

all these. there's just so many good ones. the man has/had common sense.

 

[stargazr]

Does this path have a heart?

Excellent choice!

Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water
After enlightenment chop wood, carry water

zen saying

 

[CrazyAznDriver]

Fuck yo couch awesome dude!