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Post by dinadan on Apr 4, 2006 8:24:45 GMT -5
"Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains: for he who has preferred to everything intelligence and daemon [happiness produced from the ordered soul] and the worship of its excellence, acts no tragic part, does not groan, will not need either solitude or much company; and, what is chief of all, he will live without either pursuing or flying from death; but whether for a longer or a shorter time he shall have the soul inclosed in the body, he cares not at all: for even if he must depart immediately, he will go as readily as if he were going to do anything else which can be done with decency and order.." - Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations
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Post by dinadan on Apr 6, 2006 14:50:16 GMT -5
"A Spartan asks not how many his enemies are, but where they are." - Cleomenes III, Agaid King of Sparta.
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Post by Margim on Apr 6, 2006 21:19:34 GMT -5
'Tastes like chicken'...
Random person trying a new meat.
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Post by dinadan on Apr 7, 2006 9:46:27 GMT -5
"But that's just it! That's exactly my point! What if everything tastes like chicken because they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like!" - Mouse (from the Matrix)
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Post by dinadan on Apr 8, 2006 9:13:10 GMT -5
"Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast." -- Douglas Adams
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Post by dinadan on Apr 13, 2006 20:08:47 GMT -5
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)" - Ambrose Bierce from The Devil's Dictionary.
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Post by dinadan on Apr 14, 2006 9:41:06 GMT -5
"My most holy Lady, Mother of God, by thy holy and all-powerful prayers banish from me, thy humble, wretched servant, despondency, forgetfulness, folly, carelessness, and all impure, evil and blasphemous thoughts out of my wretched heart and my darkened mind. And quench the flame of my passions, for I am poor and wretched, and deliver me from my many cruel memories and deeds, and free me from all their bad effects; for blessed art thou by all generations, and glorified is thy most honorable name to the ages of ages. Amen." from The Orthodox Prayer Book
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Apr 16, 2006 14:43:12 GMT -5
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)" - Ambrose Bierce from The Devil's Dictionary. My Latin teacher taught us that in indirect statement (when you use that in English, there must be a perception verb (I think) followed by a subject in the accusative and an infinitive. Therefore, Cogito me cogere, ergo cogito me esse. |
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Post by dinadan on Apr 16, 2006 16:31:41 GMT -5
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)" - Ambrose Bierce from The Devil's Dictionary. My Latin teacher taught us that in indirect statement (when you use that in English, there must be a perception verb (I think) followed by a subject in the accusative and an infinitive. Therefore, Cogito me cogere, ergo cogito me esse. According to the grammatical rules of Latin, yes, CoI, you're right. However, Bierce was making a joke at the expense of Descartes (whose philosophy is based on the dictum "Cogito ergo sum"). |
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Post by dinadan on Apr 19, 2006 11:43:47 GMT -5
"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality." - George Santayana
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Post by DanTheMan on May 4, 2006 8:59:40 GMT -5
"God be with thee on every hill,
Jesu be with thee in every pass,
Spirit be with thee on every stream,
Headland, ridge, and stream;
Each sea and land, each moor and meadow,
Each lying down, each rising up,
In wave trough, in billow crest,
Each step of the journey thou goest."
Cadoc's Prayer, from Byzantium, by SRL.
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Post by dinadan on May 6, 2006 8:36:32 GMT -5
"Sanity is a madness put to good use." - George Santayana
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Post by kaerie on May 6, 2006 19:46:40 GMT -5
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
- Sam Ewing
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Post by myrddinemrys on May 9, 2006 19:39:14 GMT -5
get on with it!
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Post by dinadan on May 9, 2006 20:27:01 GMT -5
Today's reading of Marcus Aurelius led me to this little jewel:
vi.33 "It is normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for human beings to feel stress is normal--if he's living a normal human life.
And if it's normal, how can it be bad?"
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