Quotes
"When your enemy is making a mistake, do not interrupt him." - Napoleon
"Never give in. Not even in the face of Armageddon." - Rorschach, from The Watchmen
Oberon: It's a fool's errand to say what others dare not speak.
Puck: I dare
- Paraphrasingish? The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman
"When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those consequences and not your explanations"
"Knowledge has no use without purpose, but purpose is what builds enclosing walls"
"To exist is to stand away from the background. You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your own existence."
"Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Absolute prediction is completion is... death!"
"Those who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception."
"If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you."
"When God hath ordained a creature to die in a certain place, He causeth that creature's wants to direct him to that place."
"One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp it strongly is to become its victim."
"One who acted with the confidence of his own judgment, but accepted whatever befell, even death, without berating his fate."
"The difference between a good officer and a poor one is strength of character and about five heartbeats."
"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."
"There's unknown all around at every moment. That's where you seek knowledge."
"All proofs inevitably lead to no proof."
"Are you God, that you invoke absolutes?"
"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous."
"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."
"There's no mystery about human life. It's not a problem to be solved, it's a reality to be experienced."
"The universe can be understood only by the wind. There's no mighty seat of reason in the brain. Creation is discovery. God discovered us in the Void because we moved against a background which he already knew."
"Every question, every problem, doesn't have a single correct answer. One must permit diversity. A monolith is unstable."
"God's it is to show the way."
"To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror. To learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror."
"The world was made for the dead. There's a million times more dead than the living, and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive!" Flannery O'Connor, You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead
"You don't want to steal and smash up things when you've got everything you want already." Flannery O'Connor, The Lame Shall Enter First
"There was no innocence in him, no rectitude, no conviction either of sin or election. The man she saw courted good and evil impartially, and saw so many sides of every question that he could not move, he could not work... Any evil could enter that vacuum." Flannery O'Connor, Why Do the Heathen Rage?
"That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence." Flannery O'Connor
"Solon... decrees the disenfranchisement of any citizen who, in the event of revolution, does not take one side or another. Men should not remain indifferent... congratulating themselves on having nothing to do with the disorders and misfortunes of their country. He wished to encourage them to attach themselves at once to the better cause, share its dangers, and give it their support, not to sit back in safety waiting to see which side would win." Plutarch, Parallel Lives. Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert
"They were beaten to start with. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start... It is in defeat we become Christian." Ernest Hemingway, Farewell to Arms
"I want what you want. There isn't any me anymore. Just what you want." Ernest Hemingway, Farewell to Arms
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." Litany of Fear, from Dune, by Frank Herbert
"I like the Bible like I like the Cat in the Hat" - Marilyn Manson.
Matthew 6:3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Luke 12:2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. 3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Mark 2:17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Luke 12:22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Luke 14:11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Luke 16:12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? 13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 5:34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: 35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. 36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. 37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Matthew 18:15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. 16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. 17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.