The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
When working on an office, it's great and all that you have "the power of accurate observation" but god our Debbie downer is insufferable.
Aren’t you confusing cynicism with skepticism?
No, “those” people are
That's a pretty accurate way of looking at things.
I doubt.
When I was in high school, a friend of mine came from a Republican family. He once told me “You think that if it would be nice that a thing were true, that means it is true”.
It took me a long time to understand what he meant, but I finally do, and he was spot on with how my philosophy worked.
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
H.G. Wells
“The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.”
― Abraham Lincoln 1864
This too shall pass.
No matter how good or bad your life is, there will ways be change.
That works both ways though. Even the fable where the quote originated had that as a takeaway.
This. Temporariness is temporary. Soon everything will be permanent.
I mean the "this too shall pass" part. When people say the quote, usually it's the kind of person who sees the negative treated differently than they treat the positive.
It won’t be that way forever though
I'm paraphrasing but it was something along the lines of
'Something that will make me sad when I am happy and happy when I am sad'
The story goes, or the way that I was told, there was a king that always felt too high and then he felt too low. And so he called all his wise men to the hall, and he begged them for a gift to end the rises and the falls. But here's the thing—they came back with a ring. It was simple, and was plainly unbefitting of a king, and engraved in black—well it had no front or back, but there were words around the band that said "just know this too shall pass."
”A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts.”
Alan Watts
I think it’s just a reminder of the pointlessness of overthinking. I find it poignant because I spend a lot of time lost in rumination, myself
Alan Watts is so fun. He used words like that monk lady in the marvel movies that slaps people out of their bodies.
He’s masterful with words. So masterful he makes it look easy.
So many teachers like “beyond this point words fail”, and they’ve got a good point, but Watts goes “let me give it a shot” and then conveys things in words that can take years to grasp through the brute force method of direct perception.
People shit on words, and with very good reason, but they are the chutes and ladders that make enlightenment in a single lifetime possible if one’s lucky enough to have a teacher like Watts.
Yes!
"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way."
Alan Watts
“1 in a million chances happen 9 times out of 10”
— Terry Pratchett
Sir Terry is all to easy to quote. This one always gets me thinking:
"There had been that Weapons Law, for a start. Weapons were involved in so many crimes that, Swing reasoned, reducing the number of weapons had to reduce the crime rate. Vimes wondered if he’d sat up in bed in the middle of the night and hugged himself when he’d dreamed that one up. Confiscate all weapons, and crime would go down. It made sense.
It would have worked, too, if only there had been enough coppers—say, three per citizen. Amazingly, quite a few weapons were handed in. The flaw, though, was one that had somehow managed to escape Swing, and it was this: criminals don’t obey the law. It’s more or less a requirement for the job. They had no particular interest in making the streets safer for anyone except themselves. And they couldn’t believe what was happening. It was like Hogswatch every day.
Some citizens took the not-unreasonable view that something had gone a bit askew if only naughty people were carrying arms. And they got arrested in large numbers.
The average copper, when he’s been kicked in the nadgers once too often and has reason to believe that his bosses don’t much care, has an understandable tendency to prefer to arrest those people who won’t instantly try to stab him, especially if they act a bit snotty and wear more expensive clothes than he personally can afford.
The rate of arrests shot right up, and Swing had been very pleased about that. Admittedly, most of the arrests had been for possessing weaponry after dark, but quite a few had been for assaults on the Watch by irate citizens.
That was Assault On A City Official, a very important and despicable crime, and, as such, far more important than all these thefts that were going on everywhere. It wasn’t that the city was lawless. It had plenty of laws. It just didn’t offer many opportunities not to break them.
Swing didn’t seem to have grasped the idea that the system was supposed to take criminals and, in some rough-and-ready fashion, force them into becoming honest men. Instead, he’d taken honest men and turned them into criminals. And the Watch, by and large, into just another gang."
And that from a liberal Englishman. I was taken aback reading Monstrous Regiment. "Did this guy write a book full of trans characters 21-years ago?! (Honestly, it got a little silly at the end with all the characters ending up trans, and a couple gay I think.)
He's also easy to read. Too often I see a comment with this much text and lose interest instantly, but I didn't even notice that this comment doesn't even fit on my screen until I started typing this
In theory, theory and practice are the same.
In practice, they are not.
Or, if you like it more pithy: "The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than it is in theory."
David Foster Wallace: You'll stop worrying* what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.
* It might 'caring' rather than 'worrying', I'm not sure, and can't be bothered finding the book to check it.
It's also possible that DFW didn't coin this phrase.
"To know which questions are unanswerable, and to not answer them: this is the skill that is most needful in times of stress and darkness."
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula LeGuin has definitely seen some shit
Being a socialist living under capitalism will do that to you.
lol not politics I mean some shit. Pretty sure she survived a nuclear holocaust in a parallel dimension, at least
What is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?
-Paarthurnax
(- also Catholicism)
Change your perspective... and the reality changes!
That's what a daycare npc told me in Pokemon Black. Although I haven't really found much use for the quote, it has stuck with me for long.
Reality is the cross product of the matrix of conditions and the vector of one’s own perspective.
"Change and comfort rarely come together"
Unattributed quote from a manager I work with
If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
H. H. Dalai Lama
I totally agree. Worrying, as an action, is useless. Worry as a feeling, an emotional signal, is useful.
Worry is like a messenger from your subconscious. It’s a signal there’s a gap between your opportunity and your action. As soon as you see the worry, you can turn it off by getting back in line with your conscience.
Worry is part of “the wisdom to know the difference”. It indicates you haven’t yet determined which of those two it is: a thing you can change, or a thing you can’t.
So worrying is useless, in the same way sitting there listening to an alarm bell is useless. The alarm is a useful signal. Indulging in it is not.
Shut off the alarm and address the problem. In this case the problem is not “something I value is gonna get hurt”. It’s “something I value is gonna get hurt, and I don’t yet know whether I should be doing something about it or not”.
The best way out the is:
worry -> map out the problem -> [branch] (help how you can OR accept it)
You can pluck the worry out of your mind if you’re a skillful meditator. Just kill it like a computer process. But it will come up again until you remove its root, which is vagueness about the line between “the courage to change things I can” and “the serenity to accept yhe things I cannot”.
So, like I said, worry is a component of “the wisdom to know the difference”. It is that wisdom’s triggering mechanism.
In my opinion, at least.
Are you influenced by a buddhist lineage?
Comparison is the thief of happiness.
I have many favorites, but this comes to mind often.
Fear shrinks the brain.
Is another good one.
Fear is the mind-killer
I like that. Also, “if they want you to be afraid, they don’t want you to think.”
No wonder psychiatrists are called shrinks.
Funny. "Fear keeps you alive" is one I use fairly often.
lol also true! I think of mine more in the context of when I see things from the media. If they seem to be instilling fear (omg immigrants are coming, they’re scary), it’s because they don’t want you to think critically.
Yeah, the challenge is really to figure out if a fear is useful, or an unhelpful remnant from earlier on in your own life, or in evolution.
Wholeheartedly agree
Off the top of my head, I'm going to go with Hanlon's razor: "Don't attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity"
Although, it's somewhat complicated by the existence of willful or lazy ignorance.
Generally, by the existence of malice’s ability to understand and then use Hanlon’s Razor to
provide itself cover.
Knowing the enemy’s heuristics allows you to deceive and manipulate them. Hence, heuristics themselves come with a cost during war.
Then the problem is: are we at war or not? Malice thinks we are. Incompetence maybe not.
Round and round we go. Which could be our own incompetence, or malice’s plan all along. Fuck.
I am better off than he is – for he knows nothing, and thinks he knows. I neither know nor think I know.
Socrates
Unfortunately, a lot of smart people still have this problem. I'd say I'm pretty damn well rounded and all that's taught me is how easy it is to find a subject that I don't know that's still very important. Meanwhile, you can hardly throw a rock without finding an engineer that thinks he should rule the world.
To be fair to the engineers it's not hard to do a better job then the people paid to be make our lives miserable for the profit of a few.
A lot of engineers end up becoming those people. Elon Musk isn't even an engineer, but that's the general vibe I'm thinking of.
Please don't compare the benefactor of an apartheid gem mine to an engineer. Just because a lot fo dumbasses are engineers, doesn't mean Musk the dumbass is an engineer.
Which is why I specifically pointed that out.
He's just a guy who plays an engineer on TV, and in his own imagination. In reality, he got where he is by starting mildly rich, and then stumbling into blockbuster tech companies like 3 times in a row.
I've spent decades trying to learn a little about everything. And I do know quite a bit! Yet I'm always taken aback to find some dumb thing I'd never heard of or considered, some new angle.
At this point I think I might be well knowledgeable about the time I hit 200, maybe 250. Not gonna make it.
Choosing proprietary tools and services for your free software project ultimately sends a message to downstream developers and users of your project that freedom of all users—developers included—is not a priority.
Quote is still relevant. GitLab wouldn’t be my first choice but open core is better than fully proprietary. The work on Ayulla is a bit more interesting at the moment for the Git space, but I would prefer something atop Darcs or Pijul to Git.
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius
You practising stoicism?
Sort of.
More it's just the way I've pretty much always been. Before I was even really aware of it, I apparently figured out that I couldn't control the outside world but I could control how I reacted to it, so that was what I focused on. One could sort of say that I did it simply because it made sense to me, but even that makes it sound more conscious than it was. It's more that it just never occurred to me to do things any other way.
It was only much later that I discovered that there was a philosophy called "stoicism" that advocated that.
I love too many to have one favorite but I might translate something decent from french :
"Absence is to love, what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the smaller and kindle the bigger."
-- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (or I think so)
I really like that one, thanks for sharing.
Life is a comedy to those who think, but a tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole
"“That’s not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives.”
IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN’T LIVE AT ALL."
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Really helps me feel better about the fact that I'm a 28 year old man who exclusively watches anime
CS Lewis?
Hell yeah it is
From Frank Herbert’s Dune
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
Though there are questions as to its veracity, "a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad". As an artist, this is the reason I'll never rush things and spend ample time on my art.
If you fall asleep with an itchy butt you’ll wake up with a smelly finger.
If they gave Jerry Falwell's corpse an enema, they could bury him in a matchbox.
Christopher Hitchens
“When masturbation’s lost its fun you’re fuckin lazy”
— Greenday, Long View
A new one I heard from Nightcrawler, he probably quoted someone else...
"Love is best measured by the things we forgive. "
We have not created the heavens and the earth and everything in between except for a purpose. And the Hour is certain to come, so forgive graciously.
15:85 Quran
"LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?"
From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
From The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.
"There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived."
—Anomander Rake
From Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen.
We growing wiser, or are we just growing tall?
Damian Marley
Intelligence is the ability to understand and predict things.
Wisdom is the tendency to make decisions that turn out well.
I figure by that definition knowledge, conditioned responses, muscle memory, perspective, commitment to certain values, beliefs, it’s all part of wisdom.
I always heard it as "intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad."
Survival is insufficient
Emily St. John Mandel
Don't do what you think you have to do... only do what you absolutely must do
“Anything that detracts from enjoying yourself is to be avoided.”
“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.”
Harry S. Truman
“Rhymes is made of garlic”
— Ghostface Killa
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it"
And at the end:
"No one keeps death in view, no one refrains from far-reaching hopes; some men, indeed, even arrange for things that lie beyond life—huge masses of tombs and dedications of public works and gifts for their funeral-pyres and ostentatious funerals. But, in very truth, the funerals of such men ought to be conducted by the light of torches and wax tapers, as though they had lived but the tiniest span." [As if a child had died]
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
"Have a good time, all the time."
--- Viv Savage, keyboardist for Spinal Tap
"Love is just a word" haha just kidding, but it's the first one that came to mind. I don't think I actually have a fav
"Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing."
I am typically this when someone accuses me of being a hypocrite. Either way, I certainly do tolerate it though, in fact I have a system for it.
Whoa I've never thought this thought. Thank you for sharing.
Life before death, Radiant.
I'm a simple man:
Based pooh
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
That's pretty funny
From the Magic: The Gathering card "Blood of the Martyr"
— Uthden Troll
From the Magic: The Gathering card "Anarchist"
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
When working on an office, it's great and all that you have "the power of accurate observation" but god our Debbie downer is insufferable.
Aren’t you confusing cynicism with skepticism?
No, “those” people are
That's a pretty accurate way of looking at things.
I doubt.
When I was in high school, a friend of mine came from a Republican family. He once told me “You think that if it would be nice that a thing were true, that means it is true”.
It took me a long time to understand what he meant, but I finally do, and he was spot on with how my philosophy worked.
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
― Abraham Lincoln 1864
This too shall pass.
No matter how good or bad your life is, there will ways be change.
That works both ways though. Even the fable where the quote originated had that as a takeaway.
This. Temporariness is temporary. Soon everything will be permanent.
I mean the "this too shall pass" part. When people say the quote, usually it's the kind of person who sees the negative treated differently than they treat the positive.
It won’t be that way forever though
I'm paraphrasing but it was something along the lines of
'Something that will make me sad when I am happy and happy when I am sad'
The story goes, or the way that I was told, there was a king that always felt too high and then he felt too low. And so he called all his wise men to the hall, and he begged them for a gift to end the rises and the falls. But here's the thing—they came back with a ring. It was simple, and was plainly unbefitting of a king, and engraved in black—well it had no front or back, but there were words around the band that said "just know this too shall pass."
”A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts.” Alan Watts
I think it’s just a reminder of the pointlessness of overthinking. I find it poignant because I spend a lot of time lost in rumination, myself
Alan Watts is so fun. He used words like that monk lady in the marvel movies that slaps people out of their bodies.
He’s masterful with words. So masterful he makes it look easy.
So many teachers like “beyond this point words fail”, and they’ve got a good point, but Watts goes “let me give it a shot” and then conveys things in words that can take years to grasp through the brute force method of direct perception.
People shit on words, and with very good reason, but they are the chutes and ladders that make enlightenment in a single lifetime possible if one’s lucky enough to have a teacher like Watts.
Yes!
"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way." Alan Watts
“1 in a million chances happen 9 times out of 10”
— Terry Pratchett
Sir Terry is all to easy to quote. This one always gets me thinking:
"There had been that Weapons Law, for a start. Weapons were involved in so many crimes that, Swing reasoned, reducing the number of weapons had to reduce the crime rate. Vimes wondered if he’d sat up in bed in the middle of the night and hugged himself when he’d dreamed that one up. Confiscate all weapons, and crime would go down. It made sense.
It would have worked, too, if only there had been enough coppers—say, three per citizen. Amazingly, quite a few weapons were handed in. The flaw, though, was one that had somehow managed to escape Swing, and it was this: criminals don’t obey the law. It’s more or less a requirement for the job. They had no particular interest in making the streets safer for anyone except themselves. And they couldn’t believe what was happening. It was like Hogswatch every day.
Some citizens took the not-unreasonable view that something had gone a bit askew if only naughty people were carrying arms. And they got arrested in large numbers.
The average copper, when he’s been kicked in the nadgers once too often and has reason to believe that his bosses don’t much care, has an understandable tendency to prefer to arrest those people who won’t instantly try to stab him, especially if they act a bit snotty and wear more expensive clothes than he personally can afford.
The rate of arrests shot right up, and Swing had been very pleased about that. Admittedly, most of the arrests had been for possessing weaponry after dark, but quite a few had been for assaults on the Watch by irate citizens.
That was Assault On A City Official, a very important and despicable crime, and, as such, far more important than all these thefts that were going on everywhere. It wasn’t that the city was lawless. It had plenty of laws. It just didn’t offer many opportunities not to break them.
Swing didn’t seem to have grasped the idea that the system was supposed to take criminals and, in some rough-and-ready fashion, force them into becoming honest men. Instead, he’d taken honest men and turned them into criminals. And the Watch, by and large, into just another gang."
And that from a liberal Englishman. I was taken aback reading Monstrous Regiment. "Did this guy write a book full of trans characters 21-years ago?! (Honestly, it got a little silly at the end with all the characters ending up trans, and a couple gay I think.)
He's also easy to read. Too often I see a comment with this much text and lose interest instantly, but I didn't even notice that this comment doesn't even fit on my screen until I started typing this
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
Or, if you like it more pithy: "The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than it is in theory."
David Foster Wallace: You'll stop worrying* what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.
* It might 'caring' rather than 'worrying', I'm not sure, and can't be bothered finding the book to check it.
It's also possible that DFW didn't coin this phrase.
"To know which questions are unanswerable, and to not answer them: this is the skill that is most needful in times of stress and darkness."
Ursula LeGuin has definitely seen some shit
Being a socialist living under capitalism will do that to you.
lol not politics I mean some shit. Pretty sure she survived a nuclear holocaust in a parallel dimension, at least
What is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?
-Paarthurnax
(- also Catholicism)
Change your perspective... and the reality changes!
That's what a daycare npc told me in Pokemon Black. Although I haven't really found much use for the quote, it has stuck with me for long.
Reality is the cross product of the matrix of conditions and the vector of one’s own perspective.
"Change and comfort rarely come together"
If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
I totally agree. Worrying, as an action, is useless. Worry as a feeling, an emotional signal, is useful.
Worry is like a messenger from your subconscious. It’s a signal there’s a gap between your opportunity and your action. As soon as you see the worry, you can turn it off by getting back in line with your conscience.
Worry is part of “the wisdom to know the difference”. It indicates you haven’t yet determined which of those two it is: a thing you can change, or a thing you can’t.
So worrying is useless, in the same way sitting there listening to an alarm bell is useless. The alarm is a useful signal. Indulging in it is not.
Shut off the alarm and address the problem. In this case the problem is not “something I value is gonna get hurt”. It’s “something I value is gonna get hurt, and I don’t yet know whether I should be doing something about it or not”.
The best way out the is:
worry -> map out the problem -> [branch] (help how you can OR accept it)
You can pluck the worry out of your mind if you’re a skillful meditator. Just kill it like a computer process. But it will come up again until you remove its root, which is vagueness about the line between “the courage to change things I can” and “the serenity to accept yhe things I cannot”.
So, like I said, worry is a component of “the wisdom to know the difference”. It is that wisdom’s triggering mechanism.
In my opinion, at least.
Are you influenced by a buddhist lineage?
I have many favorites, but this comes to mind often.
Is another good one.
Fear is the mind-killer
I like that. Also, “if they want you to be afraid, they don’t want you to think.”
No wonder psychiatrists are called shrinks.
Funny. "Fear keeps you alive" is one I use fairly often.
lol also true! I think of mine more in the context of when I see things from the media. If they seem to be instilling fear (omg immigrants are coming, they’re scary), it’s because they don’t want you to think critically.
Yeah, the challenge is really to figure out if a fear is useful, or an unhelpful remnant from earlier on in your own life, or in evolution.
Wholeheartedly agree
Off the top of my head, I'm going to go with Hanlon's razor: "Don't attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity"
Although, it's somewhat complicated by the existence of willful or lazy ignorance.
Generally, by the existence of malice’s ability to understand and then use Hanlon’s Razor to provide itself cover.
Knowing the enemy’s heuristics allows you to deceive and manipulate them. Hence, heuristics themselves come with a cost during war.
Then the problem is: are we at war or not? Malice thinks we are. Incompetence maybe not.
Round and round we go. Which could be our own incompetence, or malice’s plan all along. Fuck.
Unfortunately, a lot of smart people still have this problem. I'd say I'm pretty damn well rounded and all that's taught me is how easy it is to find a subject that I don't know that's still very important. Meanwhile, you can hardly throw a rock without finding an engineer that thinks he should rule the world.
To be fair to the engineers it's not hard to do a better job then the people paid to be make our lives miserable for the profit of a few.
A lot of engineers end up becoming those people. Elon Musk isn't even an engineer, but that's the general vibe I'm thinking of.
Please don't compare the benefactor of an apartheid gem mine to an engineer. Just because a lot fo dumbasses are engineers, doesn't mean Musk the dumbass is an engineer.
Which is why I specifically pointed that out.
He's just a guy who plays an engineer on TV, and in his own imagination. In reality, he got where he is by starting mildly rich, and then stumbling into blockbuster tech companies like 3 times in a row.
I've spent decades trying to learn a little about everything. And I do know quite a bit! Yet I'm always taken aback to find some dumb thing I'd never heard of or considered, some new angle.
At this point I think I might be well knowledgeable about the time I hit 200, maybe 250. Not gonna make it.
— Matt Lee, https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/opinion-github-vs-gitlab
On a post about GitHub Vs Gitlab - lol.
https://forgejo.org/
Quote is still relevant. GitLab wouldn’t be my first choice but open core is better than fully proprietary. The work on Ayulla is a bit more interesting at the moment for the Git space, but I would prefer something atop Darcs or Pijul to Git.
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius
You practising stoicism?
Sort of.
More it's just the way I've pretty much always been. Before I was even really aware of it, I apparently figured out that I couldn't control the outside world but I could control how I reacted to it, so that was what I focused on. One could sort of say that I did it simply because it made sense to me, but even that makes it sound more conscious than it was. It's more that it just never occurred to me to do things any other way.
It was only much later that I discovered that there was a philosophy called "stoicism" that advocated that.
I love too many to have one favorite but I might translate something decent from french : "Absence is to love, what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the smaller and kindle the bigger." -- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (or I think so)
I really like that one, thanks for sharing.
"“That’s not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives.” IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN’T LIVE AT ALL."
From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
Don't let quotes tell you what to think.
- Wayne Gretzky
"The world is cruel but you don’t have to be"
Better to piss in the sink than sink in the piss
Haha but really my favorite quote is
Really helps me feel better about the fact that I'm a 28 year old man who exclusively watches anime
CS Lewis?
Hell yeah it is
From Frank Herbert’s Dune
Though there are questions as to its veracity, "a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad". As an artist, this is the reason I'll never rush things and spend ample time on my art.
If you fall asleep with an itchy butt you’ll wake up with a smelly finger.
Confucius was wise.
Soulmates are not found. They're made.
If they gave Jerry Falwell's corpse an enema, they could bury him in a matchbox.
Christopher Hitchens
“When masturbation’s lost its fun you’re fuckin lazy”
— Greenday, Long View
A new one I heard from Nightcrawler, he probably quoted someone else...
"Love is best measured by the things we forgive. "
We have not created the heavens and the earth and everything in between except for a purpose. And the Hour is certain to come, so forgive graciously.
15:85 Quran
"LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?"
From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.
From The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.
"There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived." —Anomander Rake
From Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen.
We growing wiser, or are we just growing tall?
Intelligence is the ability to understand and predict things.
Wisdom is the tendency to make decisions that turn out well.
I figure by that definition knowledge, conditioned responses, muscle memory, perspective, commitment to certain values, beliefs, it’s all part of wisdom.
I always heard it as "intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad."
Survival is insufficient
Don't do what you think you have to do... only do what you absolutely must do
“Anything that detracts from enjoying yourself is to be avoided.”
“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” Harry S. Truman
“Rhymes is made of garlic”
— Ghostface Killa
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it"
And at the end:
"No one keeps death in view, no one refrains from far-reaching hopes; some men, indeed, even arrange for things that lie beyond life—huge masses of tombs and dedications of public works and gifts for their funeral-pyres and ostentatious funerals. But, in very truth, the funerals of such men ought to be conducted by the light of torches and wax tapers, as though they had lived but the tiniest span." [As if a child had died]
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
"Have a good time, all the time."
--- Viv Savage, keyboardist for Spinal Tap
"Love is just a word" haha just kidding, but it's the first one that came to mind. I don't think I actually have a fav
Gnothi Sauton
Anything Einstein said I have a bias towards.
I lost the game
Be not afraid.