Icon LOVE LOVE LOVE THESE QUOTES
Avatar
Peter T. (view)

I've mentioned that I collect quotes, bucket loads of them. Here are some that I don't think I've shared.

Peter T. 

 

 

Beware of contemporary society’s idolatry of innovators.   Author unknown

 

Democrats cannot be culturally arrogant and expect to win working class voters.  James Carville

 

Remember you will die, respect our limited time, and make the best use of it.

 

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.  Chekov

 

It is far better to grasp the universe as it is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.   Carl Sagan

 

Religion is a culture of faith, science is a culture of doubt.   Richard Feynman

 

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you really don’t have to do anything, you just let them talk.   President Obama

 

The idea that we can enjoy the benefits of society while owing nothing in return is literally infantile. Only children owe nothing.   Sebastian Junger

 

Internet America is the place where our myths become dogma. Internet America has a closed information loop, a mirror universe that reflects our own grievances back at us.  Sebastian Junger?

 

In our reasonings concerning matters of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man therefore proportions his belief to the evidence.   David Hume

 

Trump purposely took classified documents, and then purposely hid them, and then purposely obstructed the search for them, and retaining them, and then purposely tried to cover it all up.

 

Joe Walsh.

 

When people complain about lousy conditions here, ask them compared to what, and where and when?      Unknown

 

Human’s ability to cooperate, by the millions, separates us from all other species. The cooperation requires stories we all believe in.    Yuval Noah Harari

 

When you are dead, you don’t know you are dead, it’s pain only for others. It’s the same thing when you are stupid.    Richard Feynman

 

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.    Plutarch

 

Be ashamed to die until you have scored some victory for humanity.   Horace Mann

What can I know? What Should I do? What may I hope?    Kant

 

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.    Ghandi

 

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honorably.     Kant

 

The things that we love tell us what we are.    Thomas Aquinas

 

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.   Karl Marx

 

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to an end.   Kant

 

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.  Kant

[login] | [register]

you need to be logged in to post and reply to message board posts