True words aren't eloquent;
eloquent words aren't true.
Wise men don't need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching
You are going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view.
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Even the Bravest of us rarely has courage for what he really knows ....
Friedrich Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
John Lennon
The free nation gradually
constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism.
Commissioner Pravil Lal - U.N. Declaration of Rights
(from "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri")
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
Henry David Thoreau
To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
Friedrich Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols
True perfection seems imperfect yet it is perfectly itself.
Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols
The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues ...
Rene Descartes
The tree of liberty must be watered with blood every twenty years
Thomas Jefferson
Do you want to accompany? or go on ahead? or go off alone? ... One must know what one wants and that one wants. - Fourth question of conciousness.
Friedrich Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols
To be a philosopher is not merely
to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom
and live according to its dictates, a life of
simplicity, independence, magnaminity, and trust.
Henry David Thoreau
Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he
dreams himself your master.
Commissioner Pravil Lal - U.N. Declaration of Rights
(from "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri")
There he lay now, sick, miserable, filled with ill-will towards himself; full of hatred for the impulses towards life, full of suspicion of all that was still strong and happy. In short, a 'Christian' ...
Friedrich Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols
For my part I should wish to preach the "Will to doubt"
Bertrand Russel
I know no matter what the waitress brings, I shall drink it and always be
full.
John Popper - Blues Traveler