Quotes

Socrates:

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they
may live.

Mark Twain:

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are

not the person involved

Oscar Wilde:

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that
nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Star Trek Generations:

They say time is the fire in which we burn.

JRR Tolkien (Lord of the Rings):

Three rings for the Elven-kings under the sky
Seven for the Dwarf lords in their halls of stone
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die
One for the Dark Lord on his Dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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The Road goes ever on and on

Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And wither then? I cannot say.

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All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

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Ash nazg durbatul�k, Ash nazg gimbatul,

Ash nazg thrakatul�k agh burzum-shi krimpatul.
(One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them)

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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

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Malcom: "God creates dinosaurs, God destoys dinosaurs, God creates man, man
destroys God, man creates dinosaurs..." -- Jurassic Park

David Zindell
All rules and boundaries must someday be broken. How else can we go beyond
ourselves? A thallow chick must break out of his egg, but this does not mean that
the shell is without value.

There is an ecology of information. Stars will die; people and gods will die, but
information is conserved. Macroscopic information decays to microscopic
information. But microscopic information is eventually concentrated. Nothing is
lost. Gods exist to devour information. The lower intelligences sort, filter,
concentrate and organize information. And the gods feed.

Memory is everything. All particles remember the instant the singularity exploded
and the universe was born. In a way, the universe is nothing but memory.

To be fully alive is to be fully aware.

To be fully aware is to be full of fear.
To fear is to die.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we

couldn�t.

Man cannot bear too little reality.

Live? Our servants can do that for us.

The organism is a theory of its environment.

The metaphysicians of Tlon view time as being the most illusory of mental
constructions. According to one school, the present is formless and undefined,
while the future is just present hope, and the past is nothing more than present
memory in the minds of men. One school teaches that the universe was created only
moments ago (or that it is being eternally created), and all sentient creatures
remember with perfect clarity a past that has never been. Still another school has
as its fundamental doctrine that the whole of time has already occurred and that
our lives are but vague memories in the mind of God.

The problem when people stop believing in God is not that they thereafter believe
in nothing; it is that they believe in anything.

How do I prepare for death?

Learn how to live.
How do I learn to live?
Prepare for death
The man of knowledge must not only love his enemies; he must also be able to hate
his friends.

Every time consciousness contemplates itself, it must fall into an infinite

regress. At the end of this spiral into neverness is God - or Hell. Hell was
created when God gave human beings the power to behold themselves, just as they
are.

Memory is the soul of reality.

Self-creation is the highest art.

Before, you are wise; after you are wise. In between, you are otherwise.

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long...

...and you have burned so very, very brightly

Kill one- you are a murderer.

Kill millions- you are a conquerer.
Kill everyone- You are God.
-Jean Rostard (1955)