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Mad Kally · 05-27-2002, 04:42 PM

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We have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

Mark Twain, Thoughts of God

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"I certainly can't see any sensible position to assume aside from that of complete scepticism tempered by a leaning toward that which existing evidence makes most probable. All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world , or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. The chance's of theism's truth being to my mind so microscopically small, I would be a pedant and a hypocrite to call myself anything else."

--H.P. Lovecraft

abe smith · 05-28-2002, 06:18 AM

Our Henry wrote it: "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." He probably capitalized some of those nouns.

Ierrellus · 05-29-2002, 09:14 AM

"The truth, when told with bad intent,
Beats all the lies you could invent."--Wm. Blake

Ierrellus, the irrelevant

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Orestes · 05-29-2002, 10:04 AM

A few of my favorite quotes

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." - Frank Zappa

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." - Calvin

05-29-2002, 11:29 AM

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Originally posted by Kenadorn:


"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." - Frank Zappa

"A man should see what he wants to see and disregard the rest, la da da." -Bob Dylan

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05-29-2002, 11:31 AM

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phaedrus · 06-07-2002, 11:34 PM

"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority".

- Arthur Schopenhauer : Aphorisms

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05-28-2002, 06:18 AM	#72
abe smith Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: springfield, MA. USA Posts: 2,482	Our Henry wrote it: "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." He probably capitalized some of those nouns.

05-29-2002, 10:04 AM	#74
Orestes Regular Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: California Posts: 349	A few of my favorite quotes "Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson "Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." - Frank Zappa "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." - Calvin

06-07-2002, 11:34 PM	#77
phaedrus Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Indus Posts: 1,038	"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority". - Arthur Schopenhauer : Aphorisms

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