Favourite Quotes

[Npshaman]

What is the best / Most meaningful / Most heartfelt or most inspirational Quote you've heard?

[Deleted]

Ur a faget - anonymous

[Reg]

Do or do not. There is no try.

[Justpassing]

In b4 the inevitable:

"'<something edgy' by me >:3"

Commence throwing up afterwards.

[Shinra1]

Unto the breach, dear friends, once more...



and


I'm constant as the northern star of whose true-fix'd and resting quality. There is no fellow in the firmament

[Grimbold21]

In before someone posts chaplin's video

[Aeula]

I made him a steak! -Mordin from mass effect 3

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYhhMpL2IDo

Frigging loved that game, the feels.

[Revi]

It's cliche, but I like "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.", Nietzsche.

[Celista]

“The good that we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” -Jane Addams

[Only the Best]

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." - H.L. Mencken

[Deleted]

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." Niels Bohr

[aryianna]

If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever

[Beery Swine]

He who fights with monsters should take care lest he thereby become a monster, and if you gaze for long into the Abyss you find that the Abyss gazes also into you.

May not be verbatim, but the original is in German, so it's always gonna be just close enough.

[Nachturnal]

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all" - Futurama, Godfellas Episode.

[Fencers]

"You can't smash atoms if you are smashing groins." - Michel Foucault

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus

"All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them." - Simone de Beauvoir

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." - William Shakespeare

[Elorii]

"Assumption is the mother of all f*** ups." - sadly it is from a terrible Steven Segal movie, Under Seige 2, but it still holds true.

[Fencers]

I took this quote to heart when I first read Heidegger in senior year: "Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

[Npshaman]

Some pretty awesome ones.

I was just watching a video earlier and saw this quote, no idea whether it was said by anyone famous however:

If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, rather than something for somebody, you'll end up doing nothing for nobody.

Really got me thinking...

[Celista]

I took this quote to heart when I first read Heidegger in senior year: "Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

Didn't Wittgenstein say something similar?

[Beery Swine]

Didn't Wittgenstein say something similar?

I hear he was a beery swine.