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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 16
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and Arrows
Plato is boring.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, What I owe to the Ancients
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. Chesterton
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Edgar Bergen
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Mary Wilson Little
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
Groucho Marx
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
Bill Lyon
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
Groucho Marx
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - )
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't
Hamlet
Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977)
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare
His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Your good fortune is not my fortune it is my misfortune.
-Rhamstein
Life is a clouded mirror, which time is destined to shatter
-Dirk
My loneliness is fueled by me not being there for me either
-Dirk
We all die alone
-Donnie Darko
Monday is a horrible way to spend 1/7 of your life.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.
Aristotle
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 1 scene 1
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993), in Roy Newquist, Showcase, 1966
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Norman Mailer (1923 - )
Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.
Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
Friedrich Nietzsche
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 16
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and Arrows
Plato is boring.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, What I owe to the Ancients
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. Chesterton
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Edgar Bergen
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Mary Wilson Little
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
Groucho Marx
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
Bill Lyon
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
Groucho Marx
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - )
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't
Hamlet
Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977)
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare
His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Your good fortune is not my fortune it is my misfortune.
-Rhamstein
Life is a clouded mirror, which time is destined to shatter
-Dirk
My loneliness is fueled by me not being there for me either
-Dirk
We all die alone
-Donnie Darko
Monday is a horrible way to spend 1/7 of your life.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.
Aristotle
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 1 scene 1
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993), in Roy Newquist, Showcase, 1966
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Norman Mailer (1923 - )
Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.
Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein