I have too many favorite quotes to add a serious one into the mix...but I saw a lot of religious quotes, so here is a humorous one for you all. I saw it on a t shirt.
"Heck is where people go who don't believe in gosh."
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I have too many favorite quotes to add a serious one into the mix...but I saw a lot of religious quotes, so here is a humorous one for you all. I saw it on a t shirt.
"Heck is where people go who don't believe in gosh."
I think this thread is officially the oldest surviving thread in the forums.
The end of knowledge is when men come to the point where he was at the origine
David Hume:
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.
Essays
David Hume
Mankind are, in all ages, caught by the same baits: the same tricks played over and over again, still trepan them.
Essays
David Hume
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.
Of Miracles
That is so you AP ;)
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Posted by Admin : I think this thread is officially the oldest surviving thread in the forums.
Now, that's a good quote for all forumers :nod: :D
A.P......really enjoyed the Hume quotes .............
IMHO....... it is most often people themselves who endeavor to hide from some truths, who choose to be bewitched, the better to survive spiritually than to admit existence in an uncaring world. Life is tough...then you die. Most of us are well aware of this. I'll not begrudge anyone beliefs that alleviate the stresses in their lives.Yet there is also no reason why I must follow. Their beliefs do not infringe upon my intellect nor upon my spirit. And while I believe it temperant to be as rational as possible in all things, there is no reason my approach to life is any more valid than someone who annoints an 'otherwordly' figurehead as an approach to theirs. Whichever philosophy works to make life pleasant and happy is a good thing. Yes, deny the validity of any philosophy,rail against its' exponents, rail against the political machine that is organized religion, but I believe it is better to stone the 'priests', not the congregation....you'll only frighten the congregation and send them running pellmell into the temples.......
I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories.
This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into
being, but left the end of our story untold.
That mystery is troubling to us.
How could it be otherwise?
Without the final part, we think, how are we to
make sense of all that went before:
which is to say, our lives?
So we make stories of our own,
in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker,
hoping that we will tell, by chance, what God left untold.
And finishing our tale,
come to understand why we were born.
Clive Barker
Gah! Snic - for having provided a decent quote from a somewhat surprising source, I must say I find your signature to be rather distressing...
Beckett:
'I can't go on, I'll go on'
'Try, fail, try again, fail better'
And, from 'The End':
'Now I was making my way through the garden. There was that strange light which follows a day of persistent rain, when the sun comes out and the sky clears too late to be of any use. The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. F*** off she said.'
'I had the great good fortune, more than once, not to be run over. My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty, jovial laugh so good for the health.'
And by George Bataille, from Blue of Noon:
'It has been my aim to express myself clumsily.'
And by TS Eliot, from the Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock:
Young writers should go through their work and cross out all the good bits - Ben Johnson
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I love that one :thumbs_up :thumbs_up
And more Eliot
"In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse"
To be or Not to be ; Hamlet- Shakespeare when he contemplates whether to live or not.
We read an extremely witty comment about a theory of quantum mysticism.
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Davis marks out that when the mass of neutrinos were (5 * 10-34) instead of (5 * 10-35)kg, then the result would be a collapsing universe. Is this surprising, considering that the unit is a kilogramme? The shockingness of the example comes from the choice of units. (If Michael Jordan were 1/10 to the power of 16 light years (1 meter) shorter, he would never have been a world-famous basketball player.)
Two of my many favorite quotes are:
"Because you know if you play New Kids on the Block albums backwards they sound better. "Oh come on, Bill, they're the New Kids, don't pick on them, they're so good and they're so clean cut and they're such a good image for the children." **** that! When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children to listen to people who ****ing ROCKED! I don't care if they died in puddles of their own vomit! I want someone who plays from his ****ing HEART!"
Bill Hicks
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho Marx
i think this quote is quite funny: "I'm not a bitc*. I'm THE bitc*"
I saw it on a tshirt