Most profound quotation you have read or heard?

There is no coincidence, only the illusion of coincidence.
-V for vendetta

When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
-Wicked Jester

A witty saying proves nothing.
-Voltaire

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My favourite is the one that forms my signature.

It has rung true in my life on more than one occasion.

"Things you do for yourself you will take to your grave. Things you do for others are immortal."

"Life is not about how hard you can hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. Thats how winning is done" - Sylvester Stallone in latest rocky movie. Aint it the damn truth!

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"What do you define as real? Is real something you can taste, touch, hear, smell, and see? If so, then reality is only electrical pulses interpreted by the brain." - Morpheus, "The Matrix"

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein

"It is not what you can do, But what your mind can do." - Heard during Meditation.

rekar

From John Carpenter's "The Thing":

"You gotta be Effin kidding me!!!!"

I use this when reading ATS and all the ridiculous things - real or imagined - posted here.

Love this thread!

"If you want to make a person angry, tell them a lie. If you want to make them furious, tell them the truth." -Arthur Schopenhauer

If you are gonna do something, do it right the first time.

-- my mother, my whole life.

When I die, this quote will be going through my head.

Oh and one more....from the princess bride.

"Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death."

"If something is worth doing, do it neatly"

- Fortune cracker.

"I like the way her thighs make an ass out of themselves."

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao" -Lao Tzu

"Moderation in all things -- including moderation" -Mark Twain

"When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story."
-Barney Stinson

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Passivity is proper to domesticated animals.
It can be imperfectly imposed on humans by threatening violence.
It may be achieved by an all-encompassing system which defines existence.

" Consider your origins," Dante wrote.
"you were not made to live as brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge"

Knowledge is neither information and expertise
nor an instruction manual.
It is an investigation of the human as a whole being in search of doubt; an unlimited desire to understand.

The domesticated animal is unable to welcome doubt, let alone assume it.
Human strengths - Language, imagery, memory, character - are therefore converted into burdens. These tools, which promise virtue and knowledge, become a fearful prison.



Beat that

"The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it."


"Hell hath no fury like a majority scorned."


"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
(Oscar Wilde)


"Patriotism: You're either with us or a terrorist."

"Good timber does not grow with ease, the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees."
- J. Willard Marriott.

"Some manners of the ignorant are: the answer before he hears, the opposition before he understands, and the judgment with what he does not know."
Ja'far Al-Sadiq

"The world is soft and beautiful like a snake but there is a fatal poison hidden inside."
Mūsá al-Kāżim

"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself"

"Repel the thought, for if you don’t, it becomes an idea. So repel the idea, for if you don’t it will become a desire. So fight against that desire, for if you don’t, it will become a determination and a passion. And if you don’t repel that, it will become an action. And if you don’t replace it with its opposite, it will become a constant habit. So at that point, it will be difficult for you to change it."

"This too, shall pass."
Chinese proverb

I think this is the most profound thing I've ever heard, once I awoke and realized it's significance.

"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." -Mark Twain

"I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity, and unless that affinity is created in a second, it will not be created in years, or even generations."

Gibran