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 Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:12 pm
Here's an idea for a new thread. A member posts a quote that has a meaning to him/her, and who made that particular quote. (Obviously, the quote would have to relate to philosophy, not a quote that came from a movie.)
Rules: Always follow the TOS.
Write so people can understand what you're saying.
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:14 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:33 pm
Truth is constant, while honesty is as fluid as the sea.
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 4:36 pm
wolf-larsen Truth is constant, while honesty is as fluid as the sea.
Personally, I like this one from the Book of Joshua, Chapter I, verse 9:
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
(NOTE: Sorry for accidentally putting this in your post, wolf-larson. I'm still getting used to being a mod, and I guess I must have hit the "Edit" button rather than the "Quote" button.)
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:15 pm
As you can see, this is in my signature, but it's something that I like to ponder: "You can only pretend to be something for so long until you become it...do you know when you've crossed the line?"
It's so easy to put on a mask to the world, but when is it no longer an act? I think this quote asks just what our identities mean to us and what makes us who we are. I also think it proves a point, that it is impossible to not adapt to your enviornment. Unfortunately I don't know who said it. Sorry.
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:14 pm
John Blackthorne wolf-larsen Truth is constant, while honesty is as fluid as the sea.
Personally, I like this one from the Book of Joshua, Chapter I, verse 9:
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
(NOTE: Sorry for accidentally putting this in your post, wolf-larson. I'm still getting used to being a mod, and I guess I must have hit the "Edit" button rather than the "Quote" button.)Actually thats an adapted qoute of my design. The basis is that"Truth is the river bed and honesty is the river." But to me my version is closer to my situation and surroundings. Which kind of relates to Aesh's quote and her point. Every famous saying and proverb ever said has been adapted to the sayer's position. Never can something be said twice in any instance and mean the same thing as it did at first utterance
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:17 pm
Here's one from Ayn Rand, who would have turned 100 last week:
"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours."
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:12 am
Amazing. I'd never heard that before but I think that it's an incredible quote. It gives me the feeling that anything truly is possible. Of course that almost sounds like the 'Little Engine that Could' mentality. Still, it's a very powerful quote...at least to me.
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:24 am
yes I am new to the guild and I would like to post a quote in here
From the greatest riches to the poorest of poor, death my friend shall conqure us all......
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:48 pm
Yea listen ye well my sons, though death overtakes us all it is of small import. For it is not the time of your death that is important, nor the place that it will take place but instead it is the manner and what it be that ye die for.
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:37 pm
From one basin
To another
Stuff and nonsense.
Issa wrote that. I don't know if it counts as a quote, but I like it.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:12 pm
The pain of One is nothing compared to the suffering of All.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:26 pm
I would say that the qoute for me today is
Lead me not from temptation, I can find it myself.....
that and also
sweatdrop
At days End I ponder this,
Did I really make a diffrence in the world....
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:16 pm
- "You can believe in heaven, I'll believe in something better...the future." -- jayon
- "I think you're a god. Do you believe that you exist? ... Good, then you're not an atheist." -- jayon
or my personal fav so far (I'm gonna make it my sig):
- "The mind is a terrible thing to faith." -- jayon
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:51 pm
"Why do you weep when you pray?" he asked me, as though he had known me a long time.
"I don't know why," I answered, greatly disturbed. The question had never entered my head. I wept because-because of something inside me that felt the need for tears. That was all I knew."
-Elie Wiesel
This wasn't what I origionally intended to write, but I like this quote. It reminds me that there is some good in religion, when I think that it is all corrupt and pitiless.
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