Quotes to ponder about

"A closed mouth gathers no feet."

"No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes."

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

"Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator."

"I believe the only time the world beats a path to my door is when I'm in the bathroom."

"One time I went to a hotel. I asked the bellhop to handle my bag. He felt up my wife!"

"I met the surgeon general. He offered me a cigarette!"

"This morning when I put on my under wear I could hear the Fruit of the Loom guys laughing at me."

"I asked my wife if she would put out the garbage. She said...Why should I... you never put out for me."

"A h00ker once told me she had a headache."

"It's been a rough day. I got up this morning...put on a shirt and a button fell off. I picked up my briefcase and the handle came off. I'm afraid to go to the bathroom!"

"And we were poor too. Why, if I wasn't born a boy...I'd have nothing to play with!"

"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every
case gotten at second-hand, and without examination".
Mark Twain

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill

My new motto!


Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow - what a Ride!"

meno meno meno meno meno meno B)

Originally posted by Spanky@Apr 19 2004, 06:54 PM
My new motto!


Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow - what a Ride!"

meno meno meno meno meno meno B)

Kattints a kibontásához...

LOL! Good one indeed.


I liked this one from Al Gore, candidly said:

"Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world."

If you're too open-minded, your brains will fall out.


2. Don't worry about what people think; they don't do it very often.


3. Going to a church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing


in a garage makes you a car.


4. It isn't the jeans that make your butt look fat.


5. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.


6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.


7. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.


8. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.


9. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.


10. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.


11. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.


12. A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel good.


13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway. (Just remember how lucky you were to get a free trip around the sun.)


14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.


15. No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.


16. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.


17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist


change places.


18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.


19. Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.


20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.


21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.


22. By the time you can make the ends meet, they move the ends.


23. Thou shall not weigh more than thy frigerator.


24. Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.


25. If you must choose between two evils, choose the one that you've never tried before.

:meghajolo :rohog cool

''Az en koromban mar kapaszkodnom kell valamibe!""

(W. Churchil, a szivarjara celozva)

(...) the moral breakdown was not due to the ignorance or wickedness of men who failed to recognize moral "truths", but rather to the inadequacy of moral "truths" as standards to judge what men had become capable of doing...


Hannah Arendt
Responsibility and Judgment

(...) metaphors being the daily bread of all conceptual


Hannah Arendt
Responsibility and Judgment

Socrates : "Do the gods love piety because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it?"

In other words: Do the gods love goodness because it is good or do we call it good
because they love it.

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Nothing in the world — indeed, nothing even beyond the…world — can possibly be conceived which could be called good without qualification except a good will…
(Kant)


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The man who despises himself still respects himself as he who despises.
(Nietzche)


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Act only in such a way that you can will that the maxim
of your action should become a universal law.
(Kant)

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People who more concerned with the salvation of souls than with the world should keep out of politics.
(Machiavelli)

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Man by nature has an innate repugnance to see others suffer.
(Rousseau)




Quotes via:
Hannah Arendt
Responsibility and Judgment




Gnothi sauton

Hannah Arendt

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Hannah Arendt

Originally posted by lilli@May 29 2004, 10:36 AM
Socrates : "Do the gods love piety because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it?"

In other words: Do the gods love goodness because it is good or do we call it good
because they love it.


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Man by nature has an innate repugnance to see others suffer.
(Rousseau)

Kattints a kibontásához...

Goodness is not an adequate translation for pious. Could use: godliness or righteousness instead.

Considering what is going on in our world today I think Rousseau was off track with his quote.

Originally posted by Boszi@Jun 2 2004, 12:24 PM
Considering what is going on in our world today I think Rousseau was off track with his quote.

Kattints a kibontásához...

Naturally we are good people and become depraved by society.

Excerpts by Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) in Discourse on the Origin of Inequality among Men (1753) and Social Contract (1761):


The only natural virtue is pity, "an innate repugnance in seeing one’s own kind suffer." It naturally limits actions of selves and in so doing contributes to the conservation of the whole species. So, to the Golden Rule, Rousseau adds "do yourself good with the least possible harm to others."



There is another principle which has escaped Hobbes; which, having been bestowed on mankind, to moderate, on certain occasions, the impetuosity of egoism, or, before its birth, the desire of self-preservation, tempers the ardour with which he pursues his own welfare, by an innate repugnance at seeing a fellow-creature suffer. I think I need not fear contradiction in holding man to be possessed of the only natural virtue, which could not be denied him by the most violent detractor of human virtue. I am speaking of compassion, which is a disposition suitable to creatures so weak and subject to so many evils as we certainly are: by so much the more universal and useful to mankind, as it comes before any kind of reflection; and at the same time so natural, that the very brutes themselves sometimes give evident proofs of it. Not to mention the tenderness of mothers for their offspring and the perils they encounter to save them from danger, it is well known that horses show a reluctance to trample on living bodies. One animal never passes by the dead body of another of its species: there are even some which give their fellows a sort of burial; while the mournful lowings of the cattle when they enter the slaughter-house show the impressions made on them by the horrible spectacle which meets them (...).....

Originally posted by lilli+Jun 2 2004, 01:17 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (lilli @ Jun 2 2004, 01:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Boszi@Jun 2 2004, 12:24 PM
Considering what is going on in our world today I think Rousseau was off track with his quote.

Kattints a kibontásához...

Naturally we are good people and become depraved by society. [/b][/quote]
In my humble opinion we have no clue if people are in fact innately good and depraved only by society or by circumstance. If we believed that, we would not stress character development on a growing child. Religion, God or philantrophic guidance would be unneccessary to teach us moral standards. A newborn is unable to express herself so the characters we bestow on it come from only our perception.

''Gyerekszemmel kel nezni es a Holdat kell kerni. A Holdat kell kerni, es hinni abban hogy a kezunkbe adhatjak."

(Lorca)