Chriton’s collection of quotes: Updated at random

Impressive. You always have good quotes. I struggle to remember one without looking it up. Like the one that says, in effect, the higher you are, the farther you have to fall. LOL.

There are some awesome quotes listed at the end of the Wiki article. Thanks for sharing!

For the first week I'll get a few extra quotes posted to get the page started.


This quote is over 2300 years old now.

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world; it is appeased by love. This is an eternal Law. - Dhammapada

The Dhammapada is a collection of verses that were spoken by Buddha himself & organized in to easily understandable book of verses. The name Dhammapada loosely translated means “eternal truth path or righteousness verse” or about 100 others things depending on the translator.

I have a hand full of the 400+ verses I really enjoy.

Last Edited by Chrit on 04/18/2012 11:27 PM

This next quote is around 370 year old now.




To ridicule philosophy, that is to be a real philosopher. - Blaise Pascal


A French man, Blaise Pascal is one of the bases for the existentialist movement. He was a mathematician, physicist, religious philosopher and master poet.

He formulated what became known as Pascal’s law creating the basis for hydraulic systems like the hydraulic jack and breaks systems on cars.

He argued we experience god through the heart and not through reason.

Last Edited by Chrit on 04/20/2012 08:04 PM

This next quote is around 780 years old now.


Dogen Zenji also known as Koso Joyo Daishi Was a well-traveled Buddhist teacher who in 1246 renamed the temple he had founded Eihei-ji . This temple still exists today nearly 800 years later.

A single question drove most of his life “If Buddha’s of the ages are enlightened why did they seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice” If we are all born enlightened then achieving enlightenment through practice is flawed.

Nearly everything he thought in the temple was recorded and still read today.



A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it. -Dogen

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers - Pablo Picasso


A good quote from the founder of cubism.

Mind you the computers of his time were the size of buildings. But the quote still brings thought to the table.

Computers do not understand Me.
- RoXY

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? - Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht was a poet, playwright and theater director who was best known for how he changed theater. He realized if you create a mystery out of the familiar then the whole concept of theater could be changed & change it did because of his teachings.

In principle the idea he was conveying is to take something familiar and ask a legitimate question about a known item that changes the familiarity of the said item, turning in to something other than what it is commonly perceived as.

This quote is a prime example of his teachings and philosophy.




[link to en.wikipedia.org]




Last Edited by Chrit on 04/23/2012 09:14 PM

Gaining enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet: the water isn’t broke. Although its light is broad and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the whole sky are reflected in one dew drop on the grass. -Dogen

Last Edited by Chrit on 04/24/2012 04:40 PM

Going to put a few together to convey an idea…


A language is a map of our failures. – Adrienne Rich

Having failed to distinguish thoughts from things, we then fail to distinguish words from thoughts. We think that if we can label a thing we have understood it. – Sangharakshita

One word of explanation already misses the mark.[i] –Ejo

Words exist because of their meaning. Once you have the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find the man who has forgotten the word so I can talk with him? -Chuang Tzu




Last Edited by Chrit on 04/09/2015 06:52 PM

against internet censorship

"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one."

Marquis de Sade






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( I should have responded to this way , way earlier )

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other human invention in history…
…with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.

Mitch Ratcliffe

The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose.

Immanuel Kant


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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely, or to think sanely, under the influence of a great fear.

Bertrand Russell


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The Calamity is a day when humankind will be scattered like moths, and the mountains like carded wood...
And what will convey to you what this is? A raging fire.

The Koran

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Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster...
and if you gaze into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes also into you.

Nietzche

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away...
(Thank you GirlGenius)

One more Picasso Quote

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. - Pablo Picasso

That's why Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole...



1#(Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso)

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength. -Dalai Lama




This is one that rings all to true for me and how I live my life.



When people give away all that they have to those that need, humans seem to want more or think someone is hiding something because very few understand someone who gives all away to those that need it.

Moderately wise
a man should be
not too crafty or clever.
A learned man's heart
whose learning is deep
seldom sings with joy.

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Wake early
if you want
another man's life or land.
No lamb
for the lazy wolf.
No battle's won in bed.


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Go you must.
No guest shall stay
in one place for ever.
Love will be lost
if you sit too long
at a friend's fire.

-------
The Havamal

Last Edited by Brussel Sprouts are bitter on 04/29/2012 04:24 PM

Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. But I'm not sure about the first.
--- Albert Einstein


I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
--- Douglas Adams


I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
--- W.C. Fields


Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
--- Samuel Goldwyn


Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
--- Benjamin Franklin


Never pass up an opportunity to keep your mouth shut.
--- Paul Miller


Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
--- Albert Einstein


All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
--- Issac Asimov




Last Edited by Brussel Sprouts are bitter on 04/29/2012 04:52 PM

Here is a thousand year old quote that I have loved a long time from Fenyang Shanzhao

When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much. – Fen-Yang

good to see your own room dude ;) citz:

Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line,
For Self is a sea both boundless and measureless…
And the Soul walks upon all paths.

Kahlil Gibran

The universe is made up of stories not atoms. - Muriel Rukeyser

there was a serious thought i had... happily i lost it...

Perth are you A student of the Tao? Or is it just that the truth is always the truth no matter what book it comes from.


As soon as you have made a thought laugh at it. - Lao-Tzu

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. – unknown

i find a most interesting thing is probably nothing ;)

TRUST: like a building, hard to build, so easy to tear down....

always liked that one

Heaven-sent calamities you may stand up against, but you cannot survive those brought on by yourself. - Shu Ching

Shu Ching is a book that goes back over 3400 years. It was compiled by Confucius around 215 BC but it was burned along with everything Confucius did but was put back together from memory soon after it was destroyed.