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Edit: I thought of a better one. 2018 CST

"A man who can't share his habits doesn't need them." - Roland Deschain (Dark Tower series)

The world began without man, it will complete itself without him.

I don't remember where I got that from, all I know is I used it for a high school Photoshop project. If anyone has a clue who origianaly said this, please lemme know.

Hmm. I've been enjoying some of these.

Anyway, one that I find myself using surprisingly often. I don't know who orginally said it.
"There are two alternatives to thinking logically:
1. Thinking illogically.
2. Not thinking."
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Oh, and here's some proverbs that I had written down.

Of a small spark, a great fire.

A secret foe gives a sudden blow.

No garden without it's weeds.

Many drops make a shower.

No safe wading in unknown water.

Foolish tongues talk by the dozen.

Think on the end before you begin.

Distrust is the mother of safety.

Hatred is as blind as love.

Here are some Quotes ive collected for a little while by rememberable Rock artists:

"It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest."
~Chuck Berry

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
~Jimmy Hendrix

"Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed."
~Keith Richards

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
John Lennon

"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."
~John Lennon

"Nowadays, we're more into staying in our rooms and reading Nietzsche."
~Jimmy Page

Even the Greats of Rock and Roll can be somewhat philosophical at times...

no but cynicism and realism are very different and cynist most definitely aren't realist and many confuse the two. i was just stateing a fundamental difference that many "realists" don't seem to comprehend in truth there aren't many realists but there are many cynist and opptimists in disguise... they just for some reason don't like being labeled as such because for some strange reason they think it's negative or positive or some silly thing. in truth it is just a statement... the fact is realist implies that you understand the reality of the situation, that you take the situation for what it is and nothing more... most don't do that, on both sides i just had a very annoying convorsation with some one about this not too long ago and it's still fresh in my mind...

Some great ones here from a man who truely hated philosophy - Richard P. Feynman. He was the first man to watch a nuclear explosion without protective goggles (using just the UV filter on a truck windshield), which he helped create. He created one of the most complete scientific theories ever, one of the most accurate and easiest to use, and had no idea how it worked. He played bongos.

These are mostly on the universe, science, humanity, and the way that the three mesh. Or not.

"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars, mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is 'mere'. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination, stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern, of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent."

"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring." - Last words

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

"Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers in the preceding generation . . .Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."

"If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize."

"On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics."

"Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation."

"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."

"I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things; by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me."

"It's a great game to look at the past, at an unscientific era, look at something there, and say have we got the same thing now, and where is it? So I would like to amuse myself with this game. First, we take witch doctors. The witch doctor says he knows how to cure. There are spirits inside which are trying to get out. ... Put a snakeskin on and take quinine from the bark of a tree. The quinine works. He doesn't know he's got the wrong theory of what happens. If I'm in the tribe and I'm sick, I go to the witch doctor. He knows more about it than anyone else. But I keep trying to tell him he doesn't know what he's doing and that someday when people investigate the thing freely and get free of all his complicated ideas they'll learn much better ways of doing it. Who are the witch doctors? Psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, of course." - The entire Psychology department walked out at this point.

"No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race."

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing �that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

"If, in some cataclysm, all scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence you will see an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied."

"So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real reason is that the subject is enjoyable, and although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and we have different courses in different departments, such compartmentalization is really artificial, and we should take our intellectual pleasures where we find them."

"What does it mean, to understand? ... I don't know."

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