Philosophy

"I only wanted to help you get past the lies.
It doesn't mean I have all the answers."
- Zachary Paleozogt

"I'm looking for a great warrior."
"Wars not make one great."
- Yoda, Empire Strikes Back

"The only true wisdom consists of knowing that you know nothing."
- Socrates

"Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right
Only pleasure and pain"
- Jane's Addiction

"You look around, you see nothing real. But at least pain is real."
- Hard Harry

"Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.
- Jessamyn West

"I've got this philosophy.
You do shit.
Then it's done.
Then you die."
- River's Edge

"AIDS is kind of like nuclear war. It's too big to worry about."
- Jim Dawes

"It's only wrong if you get caught."
- Michael Moore

"So many things have already happened in the world that we can't
possibly come up with anything else. So why even live?"
- David Peters

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the slowest Gazelle or it will starve.
It doesn't mater whether you are a lion or a Gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better be running.

"Of course the Universe hates you. You're working to reduce chaos by
expending a lot of energy to do your job. Thus, you're contributing to
the eventual heat death of the universe, and it's just protecting itself from you."

"Duct tape is like the force.
It has a light side,
and a dark side,
and it holds the universe together."

"The real reason psychology is hard is that psychologists are trying to do the impossible."

"There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one, man.
There's nothing that could ever be bad about playing music."
- Duane Allman

"Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

"Theory means you have ideas; ideology means ideas have you"
- unknown anarchist

"Never let someone who says it cannot be done interrupt the person who is doing it."

Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom:
"No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats
-- approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less."

"I speak for no one but me. And occasionally the trees."

We have too many men of science, too few men of God.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount...
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
We know more about war than we know about peace,
more about killing than we know about living.
- General Omar N. Bradley

"Eagles may soar, but at least weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."

"God does not play dice with the universe: he plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time."
- Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett

If you take the long view, the universe is just something small and round, like those water-filled balls which produce a miniature snowstorm when you shake them. But if you look from really close up, the only problem about dancing on the head of a pin is all those big gaps between electrons.
- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens

"If we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot in life."
- Calvin & Hobbes

"If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun."
- Calvin & Hobbes

"What if nothing really matters?
Or suppose that everything matters.
Which would be worse?"
- Calvin & Hobbes

"Sometimes a chance is just another dream that doesn't come true"
- Baughb the Elf; Elflife