Deep Quotes

[GAMEchief]

Share any you find mentally stimulating.

I recently stumbled upon a series of Oscar Wilde quotes. For some reason, I was previously only familiar with his quotes that were popular but I actually don't like (e.g. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”).

By happenstance, I ran into a list and was surprised to find that I absolutely loved most of them.

So, here's some noteworthy ones I thought:

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

[C0FFINCASE]

"One who knows nothing can understand nothing."
"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."
"Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line. But you and I can make a difference. There's a mission just for you and me."
"If you want your children to be brilliant read them fairytales, if you want them to be geniuses read them more fairytales"
"All men naturaly desire knowledge"
"Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge"
"Education is a better safegaurd of liberty than a standing arm"
"Humor is reason gone mad"
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
"You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.”
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
”The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."
“The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.”
"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."
"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."
"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough."
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form."
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. "
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. "

[-0- D i o r -0-]

Biblical verses, especially old testament, are really interesting, but I don't think you guys would want to hear them.

[ya bish]

Biblical verses, especially old testament, are really interesting, but I don't think you guys would want to hear them.

Those quotes are amazing if you really understand them.

[GAMEchief]

Biblical verses, especially old testament, are really interesting, but I don't think you guys would want to hear them.

The O.T. is the best.

Biblical Contradictions
Evil Bible Quotes
Murder in the Bible
Rape in the Bible
Ritual Human Sacrifice
Slavery in the Bible

[GAMEchief]

"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."

Cogito ergo sum. -- Descartes

Also, way to not cite any!

[C0FFINCASE]

Cogito ergo sum. -- Descartes

Also, way to not cite any!

Espouses the lack of free will and argues that god doesn't exist but quotes Descartes

80% of it is Twain, Einstein, and Tesla. Some DaVinci, Churchhill, and Jefferson thrown in.
The first one is from Kingdom Hearts, the next two are from the first and second Pokemon movies/Herman Cain.
”The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”-Tolstoy
"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."-Darwin
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."-Freud

[Drakonid]

Cogito ergo sum. -- Descartes

Also, way to not cite any!

Misquote...


"HULK SMASH!" -The Hulk

[PrincessFluttershy]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug - Rick James

[323]

"If freedom is outlawed, only the outlaws will be free.

[ya bish]

The O.T. is the best.

Biblical Contradictions
Evil Bible Quotes
Murder in the Bible
Rape in the Bible
Ritual Human Sacrifice
Slavery in the Bible

There is probably more good than bad. You can find bad in anything.

[GAMEchief]

Misquote...

Misquote? Couldn't be more accurate: Cogito ergo sum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[GAMEchief]

There is probably more good than bad. You can find bad in anything.

Definitely not more good than bad in the O.T. The O.T. is horrible. Probably definitely in the N.T.

[ya bish]

Definitely not more good than bad in the O.T. The O.T. is horrible. Probably definitely in the N.T.

I was talking about the bible as a whole.

[GAMEchief]

My links were for the most part about the O.T., which is the part of the Bible that Dior mentioned. I have few problems with the N.T., though it does manage to have some bigotry thrown into it every now and then. For the most part, I don't think enough Christians follow the N.T. They think they do, but they don't. Even the Christians who say "other Christians aren't Christ-like" don't seem to be as Christ-like themselves as they think they are. But I digress. The message of the N.T. as a whole is probably more positive than negative, but the message of the O.T. as a whole is just so absurdly negative that I can't fathom how anyone can believe in, let alone worship, the God of the O.T. When I was a Christian, I had to denounce such atrocities, as I couldn't believe in a non-evil god that would condone them.

[-0- D i o r -0-]

My links were for the most part about the O.T., which is the part of the Bible that Dior mentioned. I have few problems with the N.T., though it does manage to have some bigotry thrown into it every now and then. For the most part, I don't think enough Christians follow the N.T. They think they do, but they don't. Even the Christians who say "other Christians aren't Christ-like" don't seem to be as Christ-like themselves as they think they are. But I digress. The message of the N.T. as a whole is probably more positive than negative, but the message of the O.T. as a whole is just so absurdly negative that I can't fathom how anyone can believe in, let alone worship, the God of the O.T. When I was a Christian, I had to denounce such atrocities, as I couldn't believe in a non-evil god that would condone them.

The old testament is a much more entertaining read IMO

[GAMEchief]

Surely entertaining. If it were a movie, I'd watch it. But I wouldn't want anyone who might take it literally, or even morally, to read it any more than I'd want them to read the Quran. Outside of cultural or educational purposes, of course.

[Drakonid]

Misquote? Couldn't be more accurate: Cogito ergo sum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Last paragraphs of the summary, quote's originally in french.

[GAMEchief]

Last paragraphs of the summary, quote's originally in french.

Last sentence of same paragraph,

He uses the Latin "Cogito ergo sum" in the later Principles of Philosophy (1644), Part 1, article 7:

[Isonyx]

Not necessarily deep but I always loved the quote "Religion is the [opiate] of the people" or more commonly known "Religion is the opiate of the masses", which came from a pretty interesting looking piece of work. I haven't read it but I plan to when I get into researching Marxism.

"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - From the introduction of Karl Marx's unfinished work "A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right". Even though it was never published it was apparently featured in one of his journals.

[323]

Not necessarily deep but I always loved the quote "Religion is the [opiate] of the people" or more commonly known "Religion is the opiate of the masses", which came from a pretty interesting looking piece of work. I haven't read it but I plan to when I get into researching Marxism.

"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - From the introduction of Karl Marx's unfinished work "A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right". Even though it was never published it was apparently featured in one of his journals.

Lol, my friend believes in marxism. Everyone jokes he's a commie.

[GAMEchief]

All political philosophies look good on paper. I can't stand the irony of pro-capitalists that think Marxism's failure in application is evidence of its uselessness as a political philosophy, as if capitalism hasn't driven us into unimaginable debt.

[PrincessFluttershy]

All political philosophies look good on paper. I can't stand the irony of pro-capitalists that think Marxism's failure in application is evidence of its uselessness as a political philosophy, as if capitalism hasn't driven us into unimaginable debt.

Well to be fair, someone at SOME point in the world has to be the one in debt. The US just happens to be the country building the debt because we wanted to play big brother with the best army. We got our wishes, at the cost of trillions in expenditures annually that could have been saved.

[GAMEchief]

Well to be fair, someone at SOME point in the world has to be the one in debt.

That's like saying someone somewhere has to be the one to lend money, which just isn't true. A country can strive to be independent/self-sustaining.

Some might fail, and they can rely on hand outs over loans, such as the foreign aid America often provides to third world countries.

[PrincessFluttershy]

That's like saying someone somewhere has to be the one to lend money, which just isn't true. A country can strive to be independent/self-sustaining.

Some might fail, and they can rely on hand outs over loans, such as the foreign aid America often provides to third world countries.

That's not entirely true and history proves it. In example, look at China. During one of the dynasties the imperial family closed off China because China was so advanced and far ahead of the rest of Europe that they blocked off trade for generations. The next thing a few generations of chinese later realize is that everyone has guns and they don't know what the fuck is going on. It's only in recent years that China has caught up to the rest of the world after being a third world country for some time, even though it was so far advanced in the past.

Yes, you're correct trade is not the same thing as borrowing money. However, the issue is that the US expected to pay back the loans initially without printing money causing massive inflation. They still do. Truth be told, we can pay them off whenever we want it'll just destroy our economy with inflation due to printing money. Once the US started borrowing more and more due to all of the wars however, we grew into unimaginable debt where the only real way to keep up payments was to borrow more money and pay it off (US treasury bonds). Why was all of this necessary in the first place? Expanded military (from war time) and pride in being the nation's super power. Effectively, America wanted to protect the world. But unless the world is paying us to do it, the US can't do it without funding from somewhere so opts for loans.

[Isonyx]

In my opinion, most, if not all, political philosophies are really doomed to failure. There's always the nature of humanity, greed, corruption, and all that. I don't think a lot of the proposed political philosophies would really be properly implemented anyway, anyway, even if they were they'd only last for a limited amount of time until someone fucks up and there's a revolution or something so the society can be rebuilt. I'd just worry about the living standards of people, and what works for the majority while the society is intact. There's always going to be an unhappy minority at some point. I'm basing this off the fact that there's no enduring example of a society implementing any specific political philosophy that survives today. Although the philosophies survive, especially the ones used by some of the most powerful empires, the empires do not.

[ya bish]

Some pretty good quotes here.

[Raivu]

One I always live by is

"Never explain yourself to anybody. Your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyway"