What's your favorite quote?

[Roms]

I thought this deserved a thread of its own after the spree Sniffy has been on.
Let's just have one rule though. One person One quote. I will just start with mine. Sorry for the people who happen to love it as well

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory (...) will yet swell (...) when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address. Monday, March 4, 1861

[Hjortron]

Lovely idea

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

[Sniffy the Atheist]

Great idea Roms, i hope you don't mind me sharing three quotes, these are some of my favorites:
"I look upon death to be as necessary to the constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."
Benjamin Franklin

"I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time."
Walt Whitman

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.- Richard Dawkins

[Hjortron]

Originally Posted by Sniffy the Atheist

Great idea Roms, i hope you don't mind me sharing three quotes, these are some of my favorites:

I mind it, and I think everyone does. If you can have three, then everyone will want to

Pick one.

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Originally Posted by Hjortron

Pick one.

Impossible. That's like trying to pick your favorite food.

Metaphorical invocations ... often suffer from the
weakness of giving such satisfaction to the human
mind that they tend to be mistaken for incisive and
illuminating observations. ---Torkel Franzen

It fitted with my conviction that every person should aim
to perform at some time in his life some serious useful
work for which it is highly improbable that there will be
any reward whatever other than his satisfaction therefrom.
---Eugene Dickson

Anyway, in the 200 years or so since homeopathy was invented, science has
given us the germ theory of disease, the discovery of viruses, the
development of genetics, ... the development of atomic theory and the
arrangement of elements into the Periodic table, and the formulation of
quantum mechanics and special and general relativity. But somehow now it's
the scientists who aren't open to "new" ideas? ---Shpalman

Intelligent Design has no answers. It can only make
itself look palatable by making evolution look less
palatable. It lives in a cardboard refrigerator box and
throws rocks through the windows of evolution's
unfinished mansion. ---Beleth

The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight,
and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight
would be still easier in empty space.
---Immanuel Kant

Your statement appears to be syntactically valid, and I am
sure it has some sort of intuitive connotations for you,
but I can't extract any actual meaning from it at all.
---Stimpson J. Cat

[Hjortron]

Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

Impossible. That's like trying to pick your favorite food.

No, because we're not necessarily picking our favorite quote, just a quote. I agree that it's impossible to actually choose, so we just have to take one that we like a lot, even if we may ultimately like another one better. That's the rules of the thread. It makes it short and concise. Else, I could list 50 quotes. It would get very cluttered and few would bother to read.

[Interesting Ian]

From what this guy said in the old Kung Fu series starring David Carradine:


"At the end what remains are not riches, not structures of stone, but remembrances of those few people we have joined spirits with".

[Sniffy the Atheist]

Originally Posted by Hjortron

No, because we're not necessarily picking our favorite quote, just a quote. I agree that it's impossible to actually choose, so we just have to take one that we like a lot, even if we may ultimately like another one better. That's the rules of the thread. It makes it short and concise. Else, I could list 50 quotes. It would get very cluttered and few would bother to read.

Hi Hjortron can this be the official skeptiko quote thread, i have quit a few interesting quotes to share, hope all of you don't mind, or do you prefer me putting them in the random thread? :

“God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.”--Phil Ochs

[Hjortron]

Originally Posted by Sniffy the Atheist

Hi Hjortron can this be the official skeptiko quote thread, i have quit a few interesting quotes to share, hope all of you don't mind, or do you prefer me putting them in the random thread? :

“God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.”--Phil Ochs

Well, I think you're going to have to ask Roms about that. If he don't like it, maybe you can start a new thread to have all quotes in? I think it's a great idea, however!

[Open Mind]

"...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them." - Professor William James

Otherwise known as CSIcop .... they have their own mantra ... it quiets the restless mind, it stills anxieties, ends the perpetual enquiring and wondering and eventually it stops thought entirely... 'it was only a coincidence, it was only a coincidence, it was only a coincidence' and that is how all the evidence for ESP has been disposed of 'it was only a coincidence, it was only a coincidence, it was only a coincidence' - Robert Anton Wilson


It is impossible to awaken someone who is pretending to be asleep. - Navajo proverb

"After death, if I awaken to find there is nothing but oblivion, I will be most surprised" - Professor Archie Roy