Quotes you live by

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Are you stupid? Its all in your head -Asuka telling like it is.
The limits of my world are the limits of my lenguage -Wittgestein. Dont speak of what you dont know and if you want to know something, reading about it isnt enough, you gotta do.
 
SuudsuAddict dijo:
"Hell is other people." ~ Jean Paul Sartre (I know this quote is overused and Sartre is overrated, but I still like it.)
"Hell is also yourself." ~ Robert Crumb
"Hell is my only home." ~ Shinran

Those are pretty negative, aren't they? I'm Hell, you're Hell, and everything is Hell! However, I just see these as realistic. I also have a positive follow up to them!

"The path to Paradise begins in Hell." ~ Dante Alighieri

Life can be Hell, but if we try hard enough it can be Heaven too.
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"Goto hell!"
"I'll go home when I'm good and ready!"
 
Not exactly a single quote, but an excerpt from Nietzsche's Zarathustra, with the core highlighted.
I form circles around me and holy boundaries; ever fewer ascend with me ever higher mountains: I build a mountain-range out of ever holier mountains.—

But wherever ye would ascend with me, O my brethren, take care lest a PARASITE ascend with you!

A parasite: that is a reptile, a creeping, cringing reptile, that trieth to fatten on your infirm and sore places

And THIS is its art: it divineth where ascending souls are weary, in your trouble and dejection, in your sensitive modesty, doth it build its loathsome nest

Where the strong are weak, where the noble are all-too-gentle—there buildeth it its loathsome nest; the parasite liveth where the great have small sore-places

What is the highest of all species of being, and what is the lowest? The parasite is the lowest species; he, however, who is of the highest species feedeth most parasites

For the soul which hath the longest ladder, and can go deepest down: how could there fail to be most parasites upon it?—

—The most comprehensive soul, which can run and stray and rove furthest in itself; the most necessary soul, which out of joy flingeth itself into chance:—

—The soul in Being, which plungeth into Becoming; the possessing soul, which SEEKETH to attain desire and longing:—

—The soul fleeing from itself, which overtaketh itself in the widest circuit; the wisest soul, unto which folly speaketh most sweetly:—

—The soul most self-loving, in which all things have their current and counter-current, their ebb and their flow:—oh, how could THE LOFTIEST SOUL fail to have the worst parasites?
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The entire passage can be interpreted in many ways, but the bolded lines in particular is something that stayed with me for a long time. I've paraphrased it as "the strength of a body is determined by the number of parasites that it can carry" and used it as a reminder of how to judge people based on how they respond to criticism. It's a line of thinking that has helped me a lot in dealing with people in a professional environment, but it has it's home in internet culture, especially concerning the concept of "don't feed the trollz" and lolcows in particular.

Of course it's nothing revolutionary, that lashing out at insignificant comments reveals insecurities, but it's still something that I need to remind myself and others of quite often. Putting it in these Nietzschean terms has made it more palpable.
 
“When the people fear the government, that's tyranny; when the government fears the people, that's freedom.” Thomas Jefferson.
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth" Adolf Hitler
“To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.”Adolf Hitler.
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” Gustav Mahler
 
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DyingStarsForever dijo:
Not exactly a single quote, but an excerpt from Nietzsche's Zarathustra, with the core highlighted.
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Thanks. These are great. My favourites from Zarathustra have to be:
1. "You sought the heaviest burden and you found yourself."
and, of course, the classic:
2. 'I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.'

And another favorite of mine:

“When a man can say of his states and actions, 'As I am, so I act,' he can be at one with himself ... and he can accept responsibility for himself even though he struggles against it.” - C.G. Jung
 
"Keep your faith in god, but lock your doors. And if you're going to be a monkey, be a gorilla."

"Hanlon's razor is a principle or rule of thumb that states, 'never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"'.

"I wrote it down so I didn't have to remember," Henry Jones Sr in Indiana Jones.
 
"Live every day as if it were your last - for one day it will be."
Dunno who said that
 
The difference between a foolish man a smart man and a wise man
A fool never learns from his mistakes or others
A smart learns from other people's mistakes but not his own
A Wiseman learns from both
 
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