for me my favorites are: "When the going gets tough, get someone else to do it" "Trust everyone once, and only once" "once you are in the only escape is death" "i remembered but then i forgot" i know a whole heap of others but when i started posting this reply i forgot...
"if you build a man a fire you keep him warm for a night.if you set a man on fire you keep him warm for life"
Xboxdevil that's pretty similar to the first post, but that's ok. 'A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step'- Confucious.
my favourtie is from Steve Jobs when he was making LISA (first mac) "Good artists copy, Great artists steal" -Steve Jobs
here are some sayings i got emailed to me. Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine. A backward poet writes inverse. A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. Dijon vu - the same mustard as before. Practice safe eating - always use condiments. Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death. A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy. A hangover is the wrath of grapes. Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play. Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion. Reading while sunbathing makes you well red. When two egotists meet, it’s an I for an I. A bicycle can’t stand on its own because it is two tired. What’s the definition of a will? (It’s a dead giveaway.) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes. She was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg but broke it off. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion. If you don’t pay your exorcist, you get repossessed. With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress. When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered. You feel stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under. He often broke into song because he couldn’t find the key. Every calendar’s days are numbered. A lot of money is tainted - It taint yours and it taint mine. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat. He had a photographic memory that was never developed. A plateau is a high form of flattery. A midget fortune-teller who escapes from prison is a small medium at large. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end. Once you’ve seen one shopping center, you’ve seen a mall. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis. Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses. Acupuncture is a jab well done.
Ok, ok. I know everyone has heard this one, but it is my fav. "Losers ALWAYS whine about their best... winners go home a F*&# the prom queen." Sean Connery - The Rock
[bold]Truth and Knowledge by Nietzsche's[/bold] There are no facts, only interpretations. from Nietzsche's Nachlass, A. Danto translation. Enemies of truth.-- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.483, R.J. Hollingdale transl. Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.-- Every word is a prejudice. from Nietzsche's The Wanderer and his Shadow,s. 55, R.J. Hollingdale transl. Man and things.-- Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 483, R.J. Hollingdale transl Mystical explanations.-- Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial. from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.126, Walter Kaufmann transl. Metaphysical world.-- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off. from Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human, s.9, R.J. Hollingdale transl. Just beyond experience!-- Even great spirits have only their five fingers breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins. from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 564, R.J. Hollingdale transl What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms -- in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins. We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for as yet we have heard only of the obligation imposed by society that it should exist: to be truthful means using the customary metaphors - in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to fixed convention, to lie herd-like in a style obligatory for all... 'On truth and lie in an extra-moral sense,' The Viking Portable Nietzsche, p.46-7, Walter Kaufmann transl. Truth.-- No one now dies of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them. from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.516, R.J. Hollingdale transl. What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors. from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.265, Walter Kaufmann transl. The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable. from Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols, ch.3, s.6, Walter Kaufmann transl. Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself. from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.110, Walter Kaufmann transl.. Cause and effect: such a duality probably never exists; in truth we are confronted by a continuum out of which we isolate a couple of pieces, just as we perceive motion only as isolated points and then infer it without ever actually seeing it. The suddenness with which many effects stand out misleads us; actually, it is sudden only for us. In this moment of suddenness there are an infinite number of processes which elude us. An intellect that could see cause and effect as a continuum and a flux and not, as we do, in terms of an arbitrary division and dismemberment, would repudiate the concept of cause and effect and deny all conditionality. from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.112, Walter Kaufmann transl.. To renounce belief in one's ego, to deny one's own "reality" -- what a triumph! not merely over the senses, over appearance, but a much higher kind of triumph, a violation and cruelty against reason -- a voluptuous pleasure that reaches its height when the ascetic self-contempt and self-mockery of reason declares: "there is a realm of truth and being, but reason is excluded from it!" But precisely because we seek knowledge, let us not be ungrateful to such resolute reversals of accustomed perspectives and valuations with which the spirit has, with apparent mischievousness and futility, raged against itself for so long: to see differently in this way for once, to want to see differently, is no small discipline and preparation for its future "objectivity" -- the latter understood not as "contemplation without interest" (which is a nonsensical absurdity), but as the ability to control one's Pro and Con and to dispose of them, so that one knows how to employ a variety of perspectives and affective interpretations in the service of knowledge. Henceforth, my dear philosophers, let us be on guard against the dangerous old conceptual fiction that posited a "pure, will-less, painless, timeless knowing subject"; let us guard against the snares of such contradictory concepts as "pure reason," absolute spirituality," "knowledge in itself": these always demand that we should think of an eye that is completely unthinkable, an eye turned in no particular direction, in which the active and interpreting forces, through which alone seeing becomes seeing something, are supposed to be lacking; these always demand of the eye an absurdity and a nonsense. There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be. But to eliminate the will altogether, to suspend each and every affect, supposing we were capable of this -- what would that mean but to castrate the intellect? from Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, s III.12, Walter Kaufmann transl.
