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Famous Quotes

Discussion in 'Philosophy' started by silverleafy, Jun 27, 2015.

  1. silverleafy

    silverleafy New Member

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    "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
    - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)


    "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
    - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)




    "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
    - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)


    "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
    - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)


    "Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
    - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat


    "His ignorance is encyclopedic"
    - Abba Eban (1915-2002)


    "If a man does his best, what else is there?"
    - General George S. Patton (1885-1945)




    "Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
    - Charlton Heston (1924-2008)




    "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
    - Ayn Rand (1905-1982)




    "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
    - Robert Pirsig (194:cool:




    "Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer."
    - Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)


    "I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
    - A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)


    "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
    - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)


    "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
    - Saint Augustine (354-430)


    "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
    - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


    "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
    - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


    "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
    - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)


    "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
    - Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)




    "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
    - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)


    "We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
    - Richard Dawkins (1941-)




    "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
    - Emile Zola (1840-1902)


    "This book fills a much-needed gap."
    - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

    What si your favorite ?
     
  2. iamkkris

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    "Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the Earth may be lighted"
    - Napoleon Bonaparte

    "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet"
    - James Oppenheim

    "What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you"
    - Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    "Remember that all things are only opinions and that it is in your power to think as you please"- Marcus Aurelius

    This is my motto. This is the quote that I live by. I think outside the box, so that I can figure out the world around me on my own terms.
     

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