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When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. (Jonathan Swift) …. <b>Quotes</b> <b>Geniuses and crackpots</b> * To see things in the seed, that is genius. (Lao-tzu) When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. (Jonathan Swift) For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. (H. L. Mencken) <b>Dreams and Wanderlust</b> Alas for those who never sing, but die with all their music still in them. (Oliver Wendell Holmes) Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (Anon.'s corollary to Clarke's third law) You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" (George Bernhard Shaw) Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. (Norman Cousins) * I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. (Roy Batty) * There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. (Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged") I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. (Hamlet) <b>Human nature (non-religious)</b> The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. (Henri Bergson) We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. (Anon) Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. (James Michener) Zimmerman's Law of Complaints: Nobody notices when things go right. The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. (Susan Ertz) Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. (Plato) * Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. (Winston Churchill). * If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you. (Mahatma Gandhi). The price of hating other humans is loving oneself less. (Eldridge Cleaver) <b>Human nature (religious)</b> If God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him. (Voltaire) If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. (Voltaire) The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. (George Santayana) God is an invention of Man. So the nature of God is only a shallow mystery. The deep mystery is the nature of Man. (Nanrei Kobori) He who carves the Buddha never worships him. (Chinese proverb) The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed. (Franz Kafka) * The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. (Kint, "The Usual Suspects") <b>You can't tell me, it's not worth fighting for</b> Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite! Citius - Altius - Fortius La ilah ha ilul Allah! I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. (Voltaire) What is left when honor is lost? (Publius Syrus) One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. (Friedrich Nietzsche). * Better to light the candle, then curse the darkness. (Confucius) * What you do is of little significance. But it is very important that you do it. (Mahatma Gandhi) It has nothing to do with defending our country, except to make it worth defending. (Robert Wilson) The hottest places in hell are reserved for those, who in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. (Dante Alighieri) If I were forced to choose between my country and my friend, I hope I would be brave enough to choose my friend. (E.M. Forster) It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. (Alfred Adler) I want you to remember that no one ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. (Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.) <b>Science, mathematics and the universe</b> There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (Hamlet) Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Albert Einstein) The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought. (Richard Feynman) In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. (Stephen Jay Gould) Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. (Ashley Montagu) Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. (Andr Gide) Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money. (Leon Lederman). * One thing I have learned in a long life is that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike… and yet, it is the most precious thing we have. (Albert Einstein) Nothing is built on stone; all is built in sand. But we must build as if the sand were stone. (Jorge Luis Borges). * Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. (Mahatma Gandhi) A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. (Max Gluckman) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny…" (Isaac Asimov) When you take stuff from one writer, it's plagiarism. When you take stuff from many writers, it's research. (Wilson Mizner). <b>Cynicism</b> * Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. (John Kenneth Galbraith) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. (George Bernard Shaw) A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods. (Dennis Miller) Diplomacy is the art of licking a neighbor's boots while threatening to stab him in the back. (Napoleon) * There are two rules for success. (1) Never tell everything you know. (Roger Lincoln). * Show me a man or woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two, and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call society. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five, and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years, they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home. (Stephen King, "The Stand") Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come. (Nietzsche, according to Matt Groening) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. (H. L. Mencken) The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. (Mother Teresa) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. (George Bernard Shaw) * Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. (Glenn Beck) <b>Meta</b> When a thing has been said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. (Anatole France) Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. (Gordon R. Dickson) If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. (Anatole France) Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom. (Herbert Simon) To generalize is to be an idiot. (William Blake) A witty saying proves nothing. (Voltaire) There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. (Cicero)