The Great Quotes thread

[rgray222]

These are not quotes but Russian sayings I saw the other day. I thought they were both quite clever.

Russian: V chuZHOY manasTYR’ sa svaYIM usTAvam ni HOdyat
Don’t go to someone else’s monastery with your own rulebook

Russian: Слезь с дохлой лошади
Get off a dead horse

[norman]

"without God, freedom becomes chaos" - Charlie Kirk

[Sue (Ayt)]

“The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.” — Carl Jung

[Bill Ryan]

The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth.

Chamath Palihapitiya, vice-president for user growth at Facebook before he left the company in 2011.

[Raskolnikov]

"Youth is wasted on the young."

George Bernard Shaw

[grapevine]

"Si vis pacem, para bellum!"
— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, ca. 4th century CE
Translation: “If you want peace, prepare for war.”
Many variations quoted over the years.

[Raskolnikov]

"Now in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, part of the great midcentury discovery of ancient texts, Jesus says, "The Kingdom will not come by expectation. The Kindgom of the Father is spread upon the earth, and men do not see it." Not seeing it, we live in the world as though it were not the Kingdom. Seeing the Kingdom - that is the End of the World. The connotation is transcendent of the denotation. You are not to interpret the phrase, "the End of the World" concretely. Jesus used the same kind of vocabulary that Eastern gurus use. In their full-fledged teaching mode they speak as though they were themselves what they are speaking about; that is to say, they have in their minds identified themselves with a mode of consciousness that then speaks through them."

Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That

[grapevine]

"Really, energy is the definining issue in disease"
- Derrick Lonsdale, World No1 expert in Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)

[Bill Ryan]

While the world continues to provide me with inspiration, more and more I feel like a citizen of Pompeii being asked to write funny songs about lava.

Tom Lehrer (1928—2025), Mathematics Professor at Berkeley, comedian, pianist and singer, when asked why he had stopped writing new material.

[Raskolnikov]

"The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings."

Erwin Schrodinger

[rgray222]

"War is failure of diplomacy"

Congressman John Dingell


Lao Tzu's immortal advice, we should sit down on the shore and wait for the enemy's corpse to swim past us.

Meaning - the path to non-resistance, patience and letting things unfold naturally is often the best way forward,

[mojorissin]

Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. ... But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.
"
--- Fischer

[Tintin]

Just terrific

Former World War 2 fighter pilot and Australian cricketer Keith Miller in an interview with Michael Parkinson:

“Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse, playing cricket is not.”

[Ewan]

Posted by Tintin (here)
Just terrific

Former World War 2 fighter pilot and Australian cricketer Keith Miller in an interview with Michael Parkinson:

“Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse, playing cricket is not.”

I originally read that quote as 'pleasure', not pressure.

[grapevine]

"A life is a tragedy when seen in close- up and a comedy in long-shot"
- Charlie Chaplin

[Raskolnikov]

Posted by grapevine (here)

"A life is a tragedy when seen in close- up and a comedy in long-shot"
- Charlie Chaplin

My life in a nutshell.

[Raskolnikov]

"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is respresented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."

George Orwell

[rgray222]

If man were actually in charge, the world would have been destroyed by now.
Albert Einstein

[seekingtruth]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=f3kz7m_6xWU

[Bill Ryan]

I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson