cogito ergo sum-(i think, therefore i am)-rene descartes
memento mori <i think>-(remember that you must die)-havew no idea where it came from
time, the very force upon which our lives revolve, is the smallest thing transcended by certain virtue. (made it up for class... don;t know if it makes sense though)
If you see a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra (I think.)
"Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings."
-George Orwell
What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it.
- Gertrude Stein
A washerwoman with her basket; a rook; a red-hot poker; th purples and grey-greens of flowers: some common feeling which held the whole together.
- Virginia Woolf
"Facts can change all the time, but my opinion never will."
Stephen Colbert
Originally Posted by Basil
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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"Everything that is not forbidden is madatory."
-Soviet slogan.
What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it.
- Gertrude Stein
A washerwoman with her basket; a rook; a red-hot poker; th purples and grey-greens of flowers: some common feeling which held the whole together.
- Virginia Woolf
“Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very, very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm.”—Mark Twain, Letters from Earth
Destiny is another word for not having a choice. - Clark Kent
Not my favorite but one that made me realize that I detest the word "destiny".
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's" - Dostoevksy
"What do I know?" - Michel de Montaigne
Go sell your crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here.
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
~Georg C. Lichtenberg
"No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."
John Donne
The strangest whim has seized me...After all
I think I will not hang myself today.
* He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
*sanity is not statistical
george orwell
Something From The Past Just Comes
And Stares Into My Soul
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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