What can you tell me?

Question

What are some thinking quotes you know?

My favorite is "You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event- it's a habit" -Aristotle

Answer 1

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both — a philosopher.
All truth is simple." Is that not a double lie?
In our own wild nature we find the best recreation from our un-nature, from our spirituality.
Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Help yourself, then everyone will help you. Principle of brotherly love.
I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge as in other things.
What? Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?
Man has created woman — out of what? Out of a rib of his god — of his "ideal."
Do you want to walk along? Or walk ahead? Or walk by yourself? One must know what one wants and that one wants. First question of conscience.
The formula of my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn
I lean'd, the Secret of my Life to learn:
And Lip to Lip it murmur'd - "While you live,
"Drink! - for, once dead, you never shall return."

The Preachers of Death
THERE are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom
desistance from life must be preached.
Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the
many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life
eternal"!
"The yellow ones": so are called the preachers of death, or "the
black ones." But I will show them unto you in other colours besides.
There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the
beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And
even their lusts are self-laceration.
They have not yet become men, those terrible ones: may they preach
desistance from life, and pass away themselves!
There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born
when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and
renunciation.
They would fain be dead, and we should approve of their wish! Let us
beware of awakening those dead ones, and of damaging those living
coffins!
They meet an invalid, or an old man, or a corpse- and immediately
they say: "Life is refuted!"
But they only are refuted, and their eye, which seeth only one
aspect of existence.
Shrouded in thick melancholy, and eager for the little casualties
that bring death: thus do they wait, and clench their teeth.
Or else, they grasp at sweetmeats, and mock at their childishness
thereby: they cling to their straw of life, and mock at their still
clinging to it.
Their wisdom speaketh thus: "A fool, he who remaineth alive; but
so far are we fools! And that is the foolishest thing in life!"
"Life is only suffering": so say others, and lie not. Then see to it
that ye cease! See to it that the life ceaseth which is only
suffering!
And let this be the teaching of your virtue: "Thou shalt slay
thyself! Thou shalt steal away from thyself!"-
"Lust is sin,"- so say some who preach death- "let us go apart and
beget no children!"
"Giving birth is troublesome,"- say others- "why still give birth?
One beareth only the unfortunate!" And they also are preachers of
death.
"Pity is necessary,"- so saith a third party. "Take what I have!
Take what I am! So much less doth life bind me!"
Were they consistently pitiful, then would they make their
neighbours sick of life. To be wicked- that would be their true
goodness.
But they want to be rid of life; what care they if they bind
others still faster with their chains and gifts!-
And ye also, to whom life is rough labour and disquiet, are ye not
very tired of life? Are ye not very ripe for the sermon of death?
All ye to whom rough labour is dear, and the rapid, new, and
strange- ye put up with yourselves badly; your diligence is flight,
and the will to self-forgetfulness.
If ye believed more in life, then would ye devote yourselves less to
the momentary. But for waiting, ye have not enough of capacity in you-
nor even for idling!
Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and
the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
Or "life eternal"; it is all the same to me- if only they pass
away quickly!-

Thus spake Zarathustra.

Answer 2

1. No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess ~ Isaac Newton
2. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~ Thomas Edison
3. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation actually exists ~ Spenscer Johnson
4. no one believes an hypothesis except its origniator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter ~ W. I. B. Beveridge
5. Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it ~ Albert Einstein
6. Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ~ Wernher von Braun

Answer 3

Well here are just a few I like to live my life by: 1) "If you want to find perfection don't look in the mirror." 2)"I am not afraid of tomm.. I have seen yesterday and I love today!" 3)"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." that's by E. Wilson, and this is my own life's creed: "Smile it's contageous someone just might catch it and pass it on!" This is just a little sample of a few of my fav.'s hope you enjoy!

Answer 4

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away"..."If you learn from a mistake, it becomes a lesson"..."To deny our impulses, is to deny the very thing that makes us human"..."If you're not living life on the edge, then you're taking up far too much space"..."the burdens of the past, and the insecurities of the future, robs us of the present"..."I don't know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone"..."When you dream, you walk in stardust, and dance to the rythm of the heart"

Answer 5

The important thing in life is not where you stand, but in what direction you are moving.


The best way to make your Dreams come true is to wake up.


Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Answer 6

You favorite quote is very cool!
I like all chine's aphorisms and here is one of them:
"Curve you will not change unbending, he's curve and his life is curve too"="People never change"

Answer 7

I'll tell u one i like but not sure who said it ...
'' The Religion is a way of living not only a way of thinking"

Answer 8

Beer is proof that God loves us- Ben Franklin

Answer 9

The better you look .... The more you see!!! YOU CAN NEVER PUT TOO MUCH WATER INTO A NECULAR REACTOR !!! Driving on the parkway....to get home so I can park in the driveway!!!

Answer 10

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.