Quotes, Quotes & Quotes.

Of all the ideas that became the United States, there's a line here that's at the heart of all the others. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security."

"I can see your arm taking your own facebook photo, you self-indulgent whore."

From last week's Office:

Dwight - I say we fill Michael's office with bees. My apiarist owes me a favor.
Jim - Really. Does he do, good work?
Dwight - No, Jim, I use a bad apiarist.

and...

Dwight - Let me float something out there. Can I say something? There is a hive of bees outside the front door. We kidnap the queen, extract her alarm pheromones, place them on a flushable wipe, and put that in his bathroom.

and...

David: I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but the cheapest option is to make Michael an offer.
Charles: Yes. I was gonna say the same thing. We should buy him out.
Jim (to Charles): Aww but you didn’t.



and...



Jim: What are your top five cases?
Dwight: I’m gonna answer Charles first.
Jim: Because you’ve solved zero cases.
Dwight: Okay. One: “Case of the Beet Bandit” : Missing beets from all over the farm, no foot prints. Inside job, Mose in socks. Boom, case closed.



and finally....



Michael: These are our demands. This is what we want. Our balls are in your court.

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. ~Thomas Paine"

"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political." ~Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed, 1950

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." ~Abraham Lincoln

"We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"?" ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960





*Sets out a bowl of gummi bears*

"Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity."

The quote is way overused, but it's completely true.

Emily Dickinson poetry is great, most of my favorite quotes are from movies, and wouldn't make sense without proper context. So here are my favorite Albert Einstein quotes:

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

*hogs the bowl of gummi bears*

Originally Posted by Silhouetree

"Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity."

The quote is way overused, but it's completely true.

Haha, never actually heard dat one before, liked it tho.


*Sets out another bowl of gummi bears*

Saw these on another forum heehee

The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
(H.P. Lovecraft)

There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.
(Hunter S. Thompson)

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." -- Albert Einstein
"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good" -- Henry Ward Beecher
"Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world" -- William Shenstone
"Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth" -- Tom Barrett
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." -- Edward de Bono
"The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person." -- Frank Barron
"Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties" -- Gail Sheehy
" The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough." -- Bede Jarrett
"The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education." -- Joel Hildebrand
"Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way." -- Joseph Badaracco
"Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil." -- Joan Chittister
"Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of." -- Geri Weitzman
"Creativity is to think more efficiently" -- Pierre Reverdy
"Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist." -- Thomas Disch
"For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications." -- William N. Lipscomb, Jr.
"I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within." -- Louise Nevelson
"The more you reason the less you create" -- Raymond Chandler
"Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right" -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be." -- Ralph W. Sockman
"Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues." -- Kong Fu Zi
"Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows" -- Helen Nielsen
"Integrity has no need of rules." -- Albert Camus
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." -- Ben Okri
"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced" -- Alfred North Whitehead
"All great ideas are dangerous." -- Oscar Wilde
"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real" -- Thomas Merton
"Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other." -- Camilo Jose Cela
"The power of an idea can be measured by the degree of resistance it attracts." -- David Yoho
"The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character." -- Dwight David Eisenhower
"If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk." -- Raymond Inmon
"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all." -- Edward de Bono
"Ideas run wild without discussion" -- Serge Kahili King
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Aiken
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." -- John Cage "Every new idea looks crazy at first." -- Robert Olson
"Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious." -- Paul Valéry
"Humility is attentive patience." -- Simone Weil
"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." -- Buddha
"Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about"
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." -- Theodore I. Rubin
"A person educated in mind and not in morals is a menace to society" -- Juanita Kidd Stout
"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses" -- Confucius
"Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion." -- Dalai Lama
"Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise." -- Julia Cameron
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." -- Lao-Tse
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution" - Kahlil Gibran
"Compassion is the basis of all morality" -- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Mankinds largest and oldest feelings is compassion and forgiveness" -- Alexandre Dumas
"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos." -- Milan Kundera
"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another." -- Thomas Merton
"Make no judgements where you have no compassion." -- Dalai Lama
"The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands." -- Arthur H. Stainback
"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics" -- Albert Einstein
"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." -- Carl Jung
"His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be" -- Oscar Wilde
"Too much sanity may be madness" -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination" -- Mark Twain
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." -- Immanuel Kant
"Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics" -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
"Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built." -- Dr. William H. Masters
"Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"" -- Erwin Chargaff
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac
"The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact" -- Thomas Henry Huxley
"There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny." -- Dr. Carl Sagan
"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power." -- Jacob Bronowsk
"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." -- William Bragg, Sr.
"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure." -- Albert Einstein
"The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away" -- Dr. Linus Pauling
"What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it" -- Ezra Pound
"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity." -- Zig Ziglar
"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know." -- Bertrand Russell
"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." -- Neil Armstrong
"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." -- Oscar Wilde
"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?" -- Charles de Lint
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." -- Albert Einstein
"Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly." -- Ivan Turgenev
"Time is not a line, but a series of now-points" -- Taisen Deshimaru
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." -- Samuel Johnson
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." -- Ray Bradbury
"The best way to fill time is to waste it" -- Marguerite Duras
"Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five" -- Arthur Koestler
"You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future" -- Chinease prowerb
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." -- Bertrand Russell
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" -- Jeremy Bentham
"Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process." -- Arnold Horshak

For now here is one that I love..

Originally Posted by Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power

"To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities - I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not - that one endures."