Whats yours?
I like " The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too stong to be broken. "
2007-08-26 20:11:01 · 31 answers · asked by katesmit216 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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2007-08-26 20:28:20 · update #1
"The Stone Age didn't end because they ran out of stones."
2007-08-26 20:16:18 · answer #1 · answered by shazam 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a treasure trove of pithy quotations. Here is one of my favorites about the early Christian church:
"We shall conclude this chapter by a melancholy truth which obtrudes itself on the reluctant mind; that, even admitting, without hesitation or inquiry, all that history has recorded, or devotion has feigned, on the subject of martyrdoms, it must still be acknowledged that the Christians, in the course of their intestine dissensions, have inflicted far greater severities on each other than they had experienced from the zeal of infidels." "
2007-09-03 02:28:01 · answer #2 · answered by Yupon Bachi-Bazouk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love a couple but these are the ones I like most
"Never look down on somebody unless your trying to help him up"
"Believing in accidents is like believing in miracle; both pressuppose that God does not know the future" by Dr. Jose Rizal
and finally "When in Rome, do as the Romans do!"
2007-09-01 20:57:47 · answer #3 · answered by dave i am 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have four, and they're all by Dr. Seuss:
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
2007-09-02 11:48:28 · answer #4 · answered by Preppy Emo Loser Hottie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only by night" Edgar Allen Poe.
My favorite because it holds so much truth, but at the same time you really have to think about it to understand the truth of it.
I also like this one:
"As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know." Donald Rumsfeld
Hahaha! I like it because if you read it slowly and try to understand every inch of it individually it starts to make sense, and it shouldn't!! Hehehehe. (That last laugh is supposed to be Bush, by the way.) God I love this country!!
2007-08-26 22:21:26 · answer #5 · answered by queen462606 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our lives are "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying NOTHING!" (my emphasis).
Fitzgerald really touched the Universe with that one. EGO is the idiot (or, is it US, since we believe the EGO), and the drama we create in our lives the sound a fury signifying NOTHING--because it doesn't matter! 5 years, 10 years, 100 years after the body dies no one will remember it anyway!
2007-08-26 20:30:03 · answer #6 · answered by Pete S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are prisoners of ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
an idea is a conceptual structure which defines the boundaries of context. the ideal plane of existence is full of structural detail which by virtue of it's conception begs to be manifest into the physical world. it is by this desire that ideas become physically constrictive. the more one attempts to create a physical complement to an ideal structure, the more one is imprisoned by the manifest. with the added quality of being an illusory concept, this idea of manifestation does not actually exist. or not that we control by virtue of our ability to conceive ideas. it is the desire to believe in our control of manifestation which more than anything becomes a prison. people work at creating the best possible image of their ideas and unwittingly become slaves to an illusion.
2007-08-26 20:22:40 · answer #7 · answered by datingguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like: "Even a broken clock tells the right time twice a day".
and: "If you can't dazzle em with brilliance, then baffle em with bullshit".
also: per Mark Twain: " It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool then to open it and remove all doubt."
How about: "Time heals all wounds and wounds all heels".
2007-09-03 17:46:14 · answer #8 · answered by Willie B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds'. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
- Rose Kennedy
I think this quote is beautiful because it is so true.
2007-08-27 00:25:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Ask not what your Country can do for you, but what you can do for your Country". Former President, John, Fitzgerald Kennedy. One of my favorite Presidents. He could not have chosen better words for us, American Citizens. I know there are some People that have a sharp eye on Mistakes we, sometimes commit, but, nobody's perfect, and if I wrote it wrong EXCUSE, ME!
2007-09-03 13:45:20 · answer #10 · answered by a.vasquez7413@sbcglobal.net 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Ben Franklin
2007-08-26 20:18:42 · answer #11 · answered by Kathe H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋