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Quotes: Latin Warrior Cynical Misc.
"Carpe diem." [Seize the day.] - Horatius
"Alea iacta est." [The die is cast.] - Gaius Julius Caesar
"Cogito, ergo sum." [I think, therefore I am] - Rene Descartes
"Ut sementem feceris, ita metes." [As you sow, so shall you reap.] - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Faber est suae quisque fortunae." [Each man is the smith of his own fortune.] - Appius Claudius Caecus
"Quem di diligunt adolescens moritur." [He whom the gods love, dies young.] - Plautus (orig. in greece by Menander)
"Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse." [To sail is necessary; to live is not necessary.] - Gnaeus Pompeius
"Per aspera ad astra." [To the stars through hardship.] - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." [If you want peace, prepare for war.] - Vegetius
"In hoc signo vinces." [In this sign, you will be victorious.]
"Semper fidelis" [Ever faithful] - Saying
------Warrior------
Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength,
Knowledge may not be applied.
Given enough time, any man may master the physical. With enough knowledge, any man may become wise.
It is the true warrior who can master both....and surpass the result--Tien T'ai
Civilize the mind but make savage the body - Chairman Mao
- We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level
of our training
- You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair. - Taisen Deshimaru
Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay it's price. - Sun Tzu (?)
The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will
realize the undisturbed mind. - Yagyu Jubei
You might as well stand and fight because if you run, you will only die tired - Vern Jocque - Sei Shin Kan.
When the World is at Peace, a gentleman keeps his Sword by his side. - Wu Tsu
To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the
next instant - Taisen Deshimaru
The Ultimate Warrior leaves no openings - Except in his mind.
When the Way comes to an end, then change - having changed, you pass through. - I Ching
The more you sweat in training, the less you will bleed in battle. - Motto of Navy Seals
The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always
reduced to the perfectly still. - Sun Tzu
SHUCHU RYOKU - Focus all your energy to one point. - Shioda Gozo
Victory goes to the one who has no thought of himself - Shinkage School of Swordsmanship
JIU YOKU GO O SEI SURU - Flexibility Masters Hardness
----Somewhat Cynical-------
Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. - Frank Leahy
Life is a zoo in a jungle. -Peter De Vries
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. - Ashleigh Brilliant
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. - Lily Tomlin
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. - Norman Douglas
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G.M. Trevelyan
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. - Gustave Flaubert
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
- Anatole France
Suicide is the sincerest form of self-criticism.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
Life's a gamble and its dealer is not your friend. But folding's a lousy option, so put on your smirk, play your hands, and ignore your shrinking stack of chips.
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more
He who tells the truth must have one foot in the stirrup. - Atmenian Proverb
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. - Eden Phillpotts
"Even death is unreliable," he said. "Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." - Samuel Beckett
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. - Friedrich Nietzsche
You are free and that is why you are lost. -Franz Kafka
In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world. -Franz Kafka
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
- Jonathan Swift
Faith can be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the improbable
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they're hanged.
- Heinrich Heine
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist knows it. -J. Robert Oppenheimer
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. - Aldous Huxley
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself. - George Santayana
The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
- Samuel Johnson
Our planet is the mental institution for the universe. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Your parents are frightened, your educators are frightened,
the governments and religions are frightened of your becoming
a total individual, because they all want you to remain
safely within the prison of environmental and cultural
influences.
- Krishnamurti
------Misc------
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. "
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
"Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working."
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor)
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
While we are postponing, life speeds by."
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD)
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Luck is the residue of design."
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. "
- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. "
- Guy Davenport
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. "
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. "
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. "
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959 )
"Logic is in the eye of the logician. "
- Gloria Steinem
"The covers of this book are too far apart. "
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. "
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Plato was a bore. "
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. "
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-Voltaire
A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire
INRI: Idiots Need Reassuring Ideologies.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. [Marcus Aurelius]
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. [G. K. Chesterton, Everlasting Man, 1925]
The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought. [Richard Feynman]
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman
I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in this: they kept arguing that it is possible. And that's true. It is possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not. [Richard Feynman]
Men who are not free always idealise their bondage. [Boris Pasternak]
“I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.” - Albert Einstein
“I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.” - Al
“I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.” - Al
I have had dreams, and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
-Jonas Salk
I have no other but a woman's reason:
I think him so, because I think him so. - Shakespeare, from two gentlemen of verona
Many live in the ivory tower called reality;
they never venture on the open sea of thought. --Francois Gautier
Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
a ship at harbor is safe, but thats not what ships are built for. - proverb
If you believe everything you read, better not read.- proverb
Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass. - proverb
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own
spiritual death on an installment plan. - mlk(?)
Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.- zen saying
Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts - proverb
The structures with which mathematics deals are more like lace, the
leaves of trees and the play of the light and shadow on a human face
than they are like buildings and machines,
the least of their representatives.
- Scott Buchanan
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless. - Euripides
The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first
learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the
characters in which it is composed.
It is written in the language of mathematics.
The union of the mathematician with the poet,
fervor with measure, passion with correctness,
this surely is the ideal. - william james
life is like being pushed off a cliff;
either learn to fly fast, or pretend that everything will be ok when you hit the bottom.
Happiness : An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Hatred: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Deliberation, n. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Day, n. A period of time of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary