Quote Time!

[Boleslav]

I'm fond of this quote of mine, a reaction to people accusing my old alliance of cheating when we weren't. It was first used here: http://bbs.evony.com/showpost.php?p=664233&postcount=60

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".
Arthur C. Clarke, 1961

"Any sufficiently advanced evony player is indistinguishable from a cheater"
Bol E. Slav, 2009

[slicendice]

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today ~ James Dean

[Conrad_Jalowski]

-"They may all be called Heroes, in as much as they have derived their purposes and their vocation not from the calm regular course of things, sanctioned by the existing order, but from a concealed fount, from that inner Spirit, still hidden beneath the surface, which impinges on the outer world as a shell and bursts it into pieces - such were Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon ... World-historical men - the Heroes of an epoch - must therefore be recognized as its clear-sighted ones: their deeds, their words are the best of their time ... Moral claims which are irrelevant must not be brought into collision with World-historical deeds ... So mighty a form must trample down many an innocent flower - crush to pieces many an object in its path."

G.W.F. Hegel, "Lectures on the Philosophy of History"

-"The laws of morality are not accidental, but are essentially Rational. It is the very object of the State that what is essential in the practical activity of men, and in their dispositions, should be duly recognized; that it should have a manifest existence, and maintain its position. It is the absolute interest of Reason that this moral Whole should exist; and herein lies the justification and merit of heroes who have founded states - however rude these may have been."

G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of History in Jacob Loewenberg (ed.), Hegel: Selections (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1929)

[jorbaud]

"Why do we kill people who kill people to show killing people is wrong" ~ Unknown

[Bree Fletcher]

I had this in my sig at one point, but removed it in favor of wat I have. But...

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints; the sinners are much more fun." -Billy Joel

[Rodri]

"There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight O'clock."

Boring Prophet - Life of Brian.

[CaptSpanky]

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours" -By:Stephen Roberts

"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend" -By:Richard Jeni

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me." -By:Emo Philips

these r some of my favorite quotes

[DoubleM]

"Thou who cares about grammar shall never get laid" -Guy from youtube

[Rodri]

"There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist."

"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started."

"Needless to say, the President is correct. Whatever it was he said."

"Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here." (my personal favourite)

"If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly."

"Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable."

Donald Rumsfeld.

[Conrad_Jalowski]

(1) -"What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; th' unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield."

Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 105.

(2) -"Man is at bottom a dreadful wild animal. We know this wild animal only in

the tamed state called civilization."

Arthur Schopenhauer, Aphorisms, 1851

(3) -"Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade."

Arthur Schopenhauer, Aphorisms, 1851

(4) -"...men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but that a powerful measure of desire for aggression has to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment."

Civilization and its Discontents (1930)