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Post by dinadan on Oct 4, 2005 16:43:45 GMT -5
"To walk alone along a lonely street is part of the philosopher's nature. His gift is the rarest of all, the most unnatural one in a certain sense, exclusive and even hostile toward others with similar gifts. The wall of his self-sufficiency must be built of diamonds if it is not to be destroyed and broken into, for everything and everyone is in league against him. His journey toward immortality is more difficult and burdensome than that of other men. And yet no one can believe more firmly than the philosopher that his journeying will lead to the goal, for where could he stand but on the wide-spread pinions of all time." - Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks.
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Post by dinadan on Oct 8, 2005 21:57:24 GMT -5
"If faith is no more than what philosophy passes it off as then Socrates himself already went further, much further, rather than the converse, that he didn't come that far. He made the movement of infinity intellectually. His ignorance is the infinite resignation. That task is in itself a match for human strength, even if people nowadays scorn it; yet it is only when this has been done, only when the individual has exhausted himself in the infinite, that he reaches the point where faith can emerge." - Søren Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling
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Post by kahne9 on Oct 9, 2005 22:00:22 GMT -5
"Never hire a colorblind electrician." Anonymous
"If you do it you’ll regret it, if you don’t do it you’ll regret it, either way your going to regret it, you might as well just do it." Anonymous
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." -Bilbo Baggins (The Fellowship of the Ring: J.R.R. Tolkien)
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Post by Zeke on Oct 10, 2005 18:54:45 GMT -5
Walk softly and carry a big stick--sry cant remember who said that
My karma ran over your dogma--Uncle Sam
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Post by Zeke on Oct 10, 2005 20:10:40 GMT -5
I believe in dragons, fairies, good men, and other mythical creatures---Uncle Sam
"Don't worry they cant hit us from this fa..."---Last words of a civil war general
Getting old isn't so bad when you consider the alternative ---Anonymous
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Post by tinidril on Oct 10, 2005 22:48:01 GMT -5
Walk softly and carry a big stick--sry cant remember who said that The quote is "Speak softly and carry a big stick" (Theodore Roosevelt) |
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Post by Zeke on Oct 11, 2005 4:15:11 GMT -5
thankyou for that correction
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Post by kahne9 on Oct 11, 2005 13:29:32 GMT -5
"Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a question and you're a fool for the rest of your life."
- Chinese Proverb
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Post by dinadan on Oct 12, 2005 21:32:48 GMT -5
"For this is what it means to be a king: to be first in every desperate attack and last in every desperate retreat, and when there's hunger in the land (as must be now and then in bad years) to wear finer clothes and laugh louder over a scantier meal than any man in your land." - King Lune of Archenland.
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Post by Elassa on Oct 13, 2005 0:34:17 GMT -5
"Kill them all. God will know His own." - WWII Nazi General
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Post by Tegid on Oct 13, 2005 1:24:42 GMT -5
(As best as I can tell, this statement was made by Arnaud-Amaury, Abbot of Citeaux, in 1209 to the Albigensian Crusaders, when they asked him what to do about the people of Beziers, who were a mixture of Catholics and Cathars.)
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Post by Margim on Oct 13, 2005 3:41:32 GMT -5
Sorry for this one  ... can't remember where I heard it. Light a man a fire he'll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. |
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Post by dinadan on Oct 14, 2005 10:48:42 GMT -5
(As best as I can tell, this statement was made by Arnaud-Amaury, Abbot of Citeaux, in 1209 to the Albigensian Crusaders, when they asked him what to do about the people of Beziers, who were a mixture of Catholics and Cathars.) You are correct. Although I'm sure it's been used by others later. For example, in the Gospel of Luke Jesus says "All those who will suffer not that I should rule over them, bring hither and slay before me." Charlemange used these words when instructing his army during his conquest of Saxony/Austria/Hungaria, etc. |
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Post by Zeke on Oct 15, 2005 4:01:52 GMT -5
where did he say that
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Post by tinidril on Oct 15, 2005 11:53:11 GMT -5
For example, in the Gospel of Luke Jesus says "All those who will suffer not that I should rule over them, bring hither and slay before me." Jesus was telling a story (parable), the quote was what the king in that story said. I say this in case anyone is unfamiliar with the context of this quote. |
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... can't remember where I heard it.