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My favourite is "If a lion could talk, we could not understand him" Ludwig Wittgenstein. What are your favourites?

"I think, therfore I am"

"This world can't stay shrouded in darkness forever. The sun will rise tomorrow."

"Mind you, there are thousands of clever men who would give anything for the chance to come in and take over from me, but I don't want that sort of person. I don't want a grown-up person at all. A grown-up won't listen to me; he won't learn. He will try to do things his own way and not mine. So I have to have a child."

Willy Wonka - Roald Dahl

Originally posted by pcp
"I think, therfore I am" Cogito ergo sum

or the full: Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum = I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am. Descartes 1596-1650

Originally posted by Strangelove
Cogito ergo sum
The original statement was in French: "Je pense, donc je suis."

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

- Ayn Rand

"Man who go to bed with itchy ass, wake up with stinky finger."

-- Confuscious

Originally posted by Storm
The original statement was in French: "Je pense, donc je suis." No, it was first published in Latin, French wasn't until 6 years later

"Le discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences" was originally published in French, and later translated into Latin. You can check any source on that.

If I write in French, the language of my country, rather than in Latin, the language of my teachers, the reason is that I hope those who use only their natural reason, pure and simple, will judge my opinions better that those who believe nothing but ancient books. And as for those who combine good sense with study, who are the only ones I hope to have as my judges, I am confident that they will not be so partial to Latin that they will refuse to listen to my reasons because I explain them in the common language.
- Descartes -

"I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance."

-Socrates

Originally posted by Storm
"Le discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences" was originally published in French, and later translated into Latin. You can check any source on that.

If I write in French, the language of my country, rather than in Latin, the language of my teachers, the reason is that I hope those who use only their natural reason, pure and simple, will judge my opinions better that those who believe nothing but ancient books. And as for those who combine good sense with study, who are the only ones I hope to have as my judges, I am confident that they will not be so partial to Latin that they will refuse to listen to my reasons because I explain them in the common language.
- Descartes - Wait. We're not talking about the same book. I'm talking about Meditations on First Philosophy, where the famous idiom "Cogito Ergo Sum" actually came from.

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences may well have been originally published in French, but it's still the wrong book.

The Meditations (first published in Latin in 1641) consist of the presentation of Descartes' metaphysical system in its most detailed level and in the expanding of Descartes' philosophical system, which he first introduced in the fourth part of his Discourse on Method (first published in French in 1637).

Originally posted by Storm
The Meditations (first published in Latin in 1641) consist of the presentation of Descartes' metaphysical system in its most detailed level and in the expanding of Descartes' philosophical system, which he first introduced in the fourth part of his Discourse on Method (first published in French in 1637). Ah. Well then we're...both right?

It's just semantics at that point, really

"Attention. Attention. Attention."
--Zen master Ikkyu

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
--Einstein

"I yam what I yam."
--Popeye

Slowly but surely
I adopt the vices
of my dead father.
--Taneda Santoka

Originally posted by Strangelove
Ah. Well then we're...both right?

It's just semantics at that point, really

Not really, she is just right.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Not really, she is just right. Well. I was speaking specifically of Meditation on First Philosophy. Which was first published in Latin. She was talking about the Discourse on Method, which was first published in French.

And my point was that the famous idiom, "I think therefore I am", was first published in Latin, in the Meditations. Storm correctly said that the Meditations was an expansion on the Discourse on Method. However, "I think therefore I am" was not included in the Discourse.

So really, I guess you could say I'm right

Originally posted by Strangelove
Well. I was speaking specifically of Meditation on First Philosophy. Which was first published in Latin. She was talking about the Discourse on Method, which was first published in French.

And my point was that the famous idiom, "I think therefore I am", was first published in Latin, in the Meditations. Storm correctly said that the Meditations was an expansion on the Discourse on Method. However, "I think therefore I am" was not included in the Discourse.

So really, I guess you could say I'm right

Just...that you are not.

Since it was first published in French. In the Discourse....so...really, you are just wrong. But doesn't matter, can happen to anyone...like it just happened to you.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Just...that you are not.

Since it was first published in French. In the Discourse....so...really, you are just wrong. But doesn't matter, can happen to anyone...like it just happened to you. I thought I was wrong for a while too. But when I looked again at the relevant details, I'm technically correct.

Originally posted by Storm
The original statement was in French: "Je pense, donc je suis." Originally posted by Strangelove
No, it was first published in Latin, French wasn't until 6 years later

You are wrong. First it was published in French.

End of story, I would say.

Originally posted by Bardock42
You are wrong. First it was published in French.

End of story, I would say. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_On_the_Method

Damn.

You're right, I didn't read it close enough.

Ah well. Shit happens

Originally posted by Strangelove
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_On_the_Method

Damn.

You're right, I didn't read it close enough.

Ah well. Shit happens

At least you admit it, you are a good guy.

Originally posted by Bardock42
At least you admit it, you are a good guy. I ain't no sithsaber up in here

Necessity is the mother of invention

I have a few favorties of my own. The first one is "Aspire to inspire before you expire" and also "There is beauty in everything, not everybody sees it." the last quote was from cruscious or how ever you spell his name.

comment on my quotes and also add your own

"Faithless is he who says goodbye when the road darkens."
- Tolkien

"A friend in need is a friend indeed."






"A friend with weed is better."

' Man alone creates beauty for Man alone has the pain to need it'- Nietzche

"Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is doing it. Right is right, even if nobody is doing it."
- Saint Augustine

"He who hears the wises of the past and shouts them is a pupil who will never be teacher. He who hears the wises of the past and shouts the wises of the future is a pupil who will become teacher to many."
-Anon

"There is no wisdom in plagiarism."
-Anon

Hey doublebubble! I'll give you a ride! - Cheech Marin runlfrun

"Freedom of choice is a universal principle to which there should be no exceptions" Mikhail Gorbachev

''That something is difficult, must be so more a reason for doing it''

Maria, Letters to a young poet, 1904

Pride exists only in the company of others- Plato

If you tell the truth you never have to remember anything- Twain

"The saddest words of tongue or pen, are these four words, what might have been."
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

Similarly (though I don't know who first said it)...
"Better to try and fail than fail to try."

"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?" -- Stanislaw J. Lec

Cogito ergo sum.

"Shall I tell you what I find beautiful about you? You are at your very best when things are worst."

-- Starman, revealing his overall opinion about human beings.

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
...If you tell the truth you never have to remember anything- Twain
Always loved that quote.
These are two of my favourites; first one after I got here!

"BELLADONNA, n.
In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues." ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens." ~ W.Yeats

"They must find it difficult...

Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority."

- G. Massey

That's quite a good one.

Thanks, I got it from Zeitgeist.

Ziegheist was great to watch... but so full of lies. For this exact reason I find it hypocritical of them to have used that quote.

"Free, your mind."

- The Matrix

To me that means to be and remain open to anything and everything. That even if you don't (want to) understand, one should still make the attempt to. (even if th results turn out unpleasant). At least you'll become informed and prepared with the knowledge. To me, to not want to (understand), would be ignorant.

Also, experience then judge. Thing is, the reverse seems to be the common way of doing it. Which is indeed the ignorant way. And to me, ignorance imprisons the mind.

Originally posted by Kosta
Ziegheist was great to watch... but so full of lies. For this exact reason I find it hypocritical of them to have used that quote. The film gets updated when errors are made, and doesn't pass itself off as absolute fact. The website also has a section of the errors in it made.

For example, in an earlier version, it has JFK's speech about secret societies and showed clips of the zapruder film, implying he was talking about the elite and got shot because of it, but on the site, it acknoledged that Kennedy was really talking about communism, and in a later edition, removed the scene altogether.

I do have a slight distaste of it's use of loose change as a reference, but since the first time I saw it, it has taken off some of loose change's errors and instead uses scenes from the more factful final cut edition of loose change.

"Spirituality is a particular term which actually means dealing with intuition.In the theistic tradition there is a notion of clinging into a word.A certain act is regarded as displeasing to a divine principles. A certain act is regarded as pleasing for the divine … whatever.In the tradition of non-theoism, however, it is very direct — that the case history are not particularly important. What is actually important is here and now. Now is definitely now. We try to experience what is available there, on the spot. There is no point in thinking that a past did exist that we could have now. This is now. This very moment. Nothing mystical, just now, very simple, straight forward. And from that nowness, however, arises a sense of intelligence always that you are constantly interacting with reality one by one. Spot by spot. Constantly. We actually experience fantastic precision, always.But we are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future. Paying attention to the materials that exist in our life — such rich life that we lead — all these choices takes place all the time, but none of them regarded as bad or good per say — everything we experience are unconditional experience. They don’t come along with a label saying ‘this is regarded as bad’, ‘this is good’. But we experience them but we don’t actually pay heed to them properly. We don’t actually regard that we are going somewhere. We regard that as a hassle. Waiting to be dead.That is a problem. That is not trusting the nowness properly that what is the actual experience now possesses a lot of powerful things. It is so powerful that we can’t face it. Therefore, we have to borrow from the past and invite the future all the time.Maybe that’s why we seek religion. Maybe that’s why we march in the street. Maybe that’s why we complain to society. Maybe that’s why we vote for the presidents.It is quite ironic. Very funny indeed."

-- Chögyam Trungpa

"Us girls we are so magical, soft skin red lips so kissable, hard to resist too touchable, too good to deny it...aint no big deal its innocent."- Katy Perry

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." -- Sri Chinmony Ghose