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1648718 No.1648718 [Reply] [Original]

What's your favorite quote? Mine is:

Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Alexander the Great

Your turn.

>> No.1648721

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."

Benedict Arnold

>> No.1648731

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

- Socrates


Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus


Actually these two have shit loads of good quotes.

>> No.1648737

"There are two places black people like to go, and that's wal-mart, and six flags"

Martin Luther King Jr.

>> No.1648743

>>1648731
That one by Epicurus is either a truism, or I'm totally missing the point.

For me, it's just about any quote from The Myth of Sisyphus

>> No.1648748

VENI VIDI VICI

Jay-Z

>> No.1648749

"Mankind is a rope between animal and overman - a rope hanging over an abyss."

-Nietzsche

>> No.1648753

it's "overhuman"

>> No.1648765

>>1648718
That's a nice quote OP. Simple, yet it effective. To use a cliche.

>> No.1648769

>>1648765
*minus the "it", I was going to say something else but I couldn't be bothered.

>> No.1648777

The mind is like a parachute: it doesn't work if it's not open.
-Frank Zappa

>> No.1648778

>>1648753
written in german so it's ubermensch.

GTFO STUPID TRIPFAG

>> No.1648780

>>1648777
pfft i hate quotes like that.

>> No.1648788

None is more hopelessly enslaved than the one who falsely believe he is free - Goethe

>> No.1648802

"Cruelty is the remedy for wounded pride" Friedrich Nietzsche

"Men were always born with the ability to desire everything and the inability to obtain everything" Niccolo Machiavelli

>> No.1648803

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

-Douglas Adams

>> No.1648808

>>1648780
I agree. They're too "facebookish".

>> No.1648814

dont eat the yellow snow

>> No.1648818

>>1648777
Here's a better one:

"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny."
-Frank Zappa

>> No.1648820

"All my people LOVE me"

-Gadaffi, about 2 weeks ago.

Fucking genius.

>> No.1648823
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1648823

not my favorite quote
but one I came across recently

a man once asked mark twain
if he was afraid of death

I do not fear death
I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

>> No.1648833

>>1648808
GOOD! I'm not the only one who's friends post obnoxious pseudo-intellectual quotes that they think are philosophical.

>> No.1648851

Best quote evAr to live by...

"Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you."

-Dale Carnegie

>> No.1648860

Judith Butler
Julia Kristeva

>> No.1648862

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind"
-Call of Duty 2 Modern Warfare

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>>1648862

>> No.1648873
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>>1648862
>Call of Duty 2 Modern Warfare

Layers upon layers...

>> No.1648877

>>1648862
reflections on kantian ethics and shooting fuckin commie sons of bitches

man, is there anything this superb game can't do

>> No.1648883

yea, so that quote wasn't Alexander to Great, OP. That was Ghandi.
Seriously. If you are going to start threads about quotes match the right words with the right man.

>> No.1648889

>>1648883
really? everyone else missed that except for you? only one person noticed OP was wrong?
this is sad.

>> No.1648892

>>1648877
You know, it seems that every time I see you post I become more and more convinced that you're either an Objectivist or a Libertarian hipster.

>> No.1648901

>>1648788
Great one.

>> No.1648904

ugh. this is a pointless thread.
we should ignore it just because OP doesn't double check his sources for quotes.

>> No.1648914

"It ain't over till the fat lady sings"

-Lord Nelson

>> No.1648915

>>1648904

Neither do these guys:
>>1648877
>>1648862

>> No.1648916

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?”

Epicurus

>> No.1648921

Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger.

-The Onion

>> No.1648923

>>1648904

Are you new here?

>> No.1648925

"Open the Door, Get on the Floor, Everybody walk the dinosaur"
-Han Solo

>> No.1648928

>>1648883
>>1648889
>>1648904
I choose to believe that this is the work of a samefag because I always thought that /lit/ was supposed to be intelligent.

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"
J.K. Rowling.

>> No.1648929

>>1648862
ha, i see what you did there.

>> No.1648934
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>>1648753
It's an idiot troll!

>> No.1648935

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
- W. Somerset Maugham

>> No.1648936

Orbis non sufficit.

>> No.1648940

>After barricading myself in a house in Resident Evil 4. A zombie comes scratching at the door.

"I think we can trust him. He looks legit."

-My friend

>> No.1648950

"The white man shall enslave all other races since he's the master race"

Nietzsche

>> No.1648962

"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well." Charles Bukowski

>> No.1648989

Remembering that you are going to
die is the best way I know to avoid
the trap of thinking you have
something to lose.
- Steve Jobs

>> No.1648998

Some men just wanna watch the jungle burn down.-The Joker, from the Dark Knight

>> No.1649002

"Cogito ergo veni" - Caesartes

>> No.1649084

"I am who I think I am therefore I exist through Me"

-Yahweh

>> No.1649088

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. - John F. Kennedy

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy

>> No.1649093

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean

Only the gentle are ever really strong.
James Dean

>> No.1649101

I hate homosexuals

-Jesus

>> No.1649103

'It's better to lose a lover than to keep a friend'

No idea who said it, i think i heard it on Shaun of the Dead to be honest, it's still a brilliant heartbreak quote

>> No.1649106

"What are you doing in my house?"

-Last night's victim.

>> No.1649108
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1649108

>this thread

>> No.1649110

"What is a man? A miserable pile of secrets!" -Dracula

>> No.1649111

"Are we fallen angel who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

"But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious."

-Jack Kerouac

>> No.1649113

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

>> No.1649115

"The bastard who stole my dog has no idea what he did to me."
-Adolph Hitler

>> No.1649117

The Bird is the Word - Homer

>> No.1649120

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

- Stephen King

>> No.1649131

"This sounds very gay."

-Tony Soprano, on Proust's In Search of Lost Time

>> No.1649923
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1649923

You want to fuck me where?

-my little sister

>> No.1649961

I judge wisely, as if nothin ever surprise me
Loungin, between two pillars of ivory
I'm lively, my dome piece, is like buildin stones in Greece
my poems are deep from ancient thrones I speak
I'm overwhelmed, as my mind roams the realm
My eye's the vision, memory is the film
Others act sub-tile, but they fragile above clouds
They act wild and couldn't budge a crowd
No matter how loud they get, though they growl and spit
Clutch they fists, and throw up signs like a Crip
And throw all types of fits
I leave 'em split, like ass cheeks and ragged pussy lips

-killah priest

>> No.1649966

What do you mean this isn't Capri Sun?

-Socrates

>> No.1649968

>>1649961
i think i get it
it is because rap lyrics have a different cultura; status than quotes from historical/classical figures and the joke is in the juxtapoz*ition

*cum

>> No.1649976

"Fortune Favors the Bold" - Virgil

>> No.1650002

this one's about anons knowing their place
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
-Gogol

this one's about my daily life
"fucked around and got a triple double"
-Ice Cube

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1650003

“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
-Thomas Paine

>> No.1650045

>>1650002

I think the reason you don't like anon is that there is no way to effectively deal with them. They are ubiquitous, there is no way to tell which one is which, they have a whole library of gambits unavailable to you, and there is no way to assess your status versus them because they are anybody or everybody, which really really doesn't work for you because you are, like all tripfags, a narcissist. This board, this site, is really not the place for you. You need to find some abandoned backwater board on the verge of death and build a personality cult there. Here, no matter how hard you roll, you are still a second-class poster.

>> No.1650071

There is no such thing as Christian children, only the children of Christian parents.

Not sure who said it though.

>> No.1650082

mine is:

OP is a fag.
foucault, i think.

>> No.1650087

>>1649101
i love you

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1650104

>>1650045

>> No.1650108
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>>1650045

>> No.1650123

>>1650108

haha wow you're a massive faggot

>> No.1650136

>>1650108

HAHAHA.
FACT. If your points are valid, they will stand without your BRANDING. Prove me wrong.
FACT. There is NO REASON save narcissism and BRANDING weak shit with your logo so it will pass muster to use a name. Prove me wrong.

What you really need to do is go to some place, some SA shithole where you can get a personality cult that is larger than a single documented sex offender. You are not wanted here because what you are is shit. The only people who will defend you are the similarly vile, Deep & Edgy, Queerin, whoever.

>> No.1650144

>>1650108
>thefaceofautism.jpg

>> No.1650164

I think it was 1650045 who said,

I think the reason you don't like anon is that there is no way to effectively deal with them. They are ubiquitous, there is no way to tell which one is which, they have a whole library of gambits unavailable to you, and there is no way to assess your status versus them because they are anybody or everybody, which really really doesn't work for you because you are, like all tripfags, a narcissist. This board, this site, is really not the place for you. You need to find some abandoned backwater board on the verge of death and build a personality cult there. Here, no matter how hard you roll, you are still a second-class poster.

>> No.1650180

>>1650164

Well, whomever said that, I have to agree. I wondered what kind of environment 4chan'd have to hold for tripfags to not be universally reviled, and between this, the /b/ roleplay shit, and /vp/, I think I got my answer. Now the question is why literature attracts pathological narcissists (thanks to the guy who said that, it's spot-on). It's supposed to make you a better person, and I don't get the discrepancy.

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>>1650180
>whomever

>> No.1650186

>>1650182

No one cares, dork.

>> No.1650187

Fuck you bitch.

>> No.1650190

>>1650123
>>1650136
>>1650144
>>1650164
>>1650180

I need some galoshes 'cause this place all filled up with jelly.

>> No.1650192

>>1650190

I don't see much jealousy. Mostly it's just people making fun of you. >>1650136 makes a good point, though. Care to address it?

>> No.1650195

"they who have put out the peoples eyes reproach them of their blindness"

John Milton.

>> No.1650196

>>1650192

shell adress it with her fucking nezumiesque used up prolapsed twat, you fucking moron

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1650229

>>1650196
>she
>pic related
>>1650192
I'll humor you, yeah. That bro doesn't take into account that I do this to amuse myself.
There's also the argument that having a trip makes one more accountable for what they say but I won't use that because it isn't what I'm doing.
If you didn't see all the jelly, u blind.
>Today I went on that 4chan and people were saying things that made me unhappy! I had better things to say but no one recognized me for my contributions! waaaahhhhh!
sorry kiddo, I never meant to hurt anyone.

>> No.1650233

>>1650229

Well, then I guess I might be blind. What exactly is that guy jealous of? Also, isn't doing things solely to amuse yourself kind of indulgent and gross? I mean, I can understand that from like /b/, but if anything is Serious Business, it's literature.

>> No.1650234

>>1650233
supposedly he is jealous that no one recognized him for his contributions but i don't think he is the kind of person who thinks of things in terms of contribution somehow

>> No.1650236

1) Tripfags hating on anon is largely defensive mechanism, or a joke

2) Stagolee is entirely a troll. why would you take him seriously. why.

3) A lot of tripfags happen to be dumb or annoying but that's kind of unrelated to the fact that they're tripfags. Hate the tripfag, don't hate the institution.

4) I resent the insult to SA, which isn't great but is certainly not worse than fucking 4chan

>> No.1650238

>>1650229
hey guess what you're still a faggot of the highest order

>> No.1650242

“Until lately the best thing that I was able to think of in favour of civilization, apart from blind acceptance of the order of the universe, was that it made possible the artist, the poet, the philosopher, and the man of science. But I think that is not the greatest thing. Now I believe that the greatest thing is a matter that comes directly home to us all. When it is said that we are too much occupied with the means of living to live, I answer that the chief worth of civilization is just that it makes the means of living more complex; that it calls for great and combined intellectual efforts, instead of simple, uncoordinated ones, in order that the crowd may be fed and clothed and housed and moved from place to place. Because more complex and intense intellectual efforts mean a full...er and richer life. They mean more life. Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it.

"I will add but a word. We are all very near despair. The sheathing that floats us over its waves is compounded of hope, faith in the unexplainable worth and sure issue of effort, and the deep, sub-conscious content which comes from the exercise of our powers.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

>> No.1650243

>>1650236
authorial intent doesn't matter plus when you reject someone it hurts them no matter what and it's funny to hurt him bc he is a fagggot re: 2

and you can't tell me that a boogerturd like that would not be at home in fyad

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>>1650233
>>1650234
>>1650238

>> No.1650250

>>1650243
>when you reject someone it hurts them no matter what and it's funny to hurt him bc he is a fagggot re: 2

hahahaha okay i see where you are coming from, this makes sense. altho i think that if you make it an insult about tripfags in generally it's less effective b/c trips are used to that shit

>and you can't tell me that a boogerturd like that would not be at home in fyad

stagolee might be but it's difficult to say b/c he's so blatantly a troll

i don't think any of the 'sincere' posters on /lit/ would be big into fyad

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>>1650246

>> No.1650270
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>> No.1650290
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"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose"
- Bill Gates

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."
- Sun Tzu

"Mess with the best, die like the rest."
- Adolf Hitler

>> No.1650321

"There is no sacrifice too great for a chance at immortality."

Said by Humphry Bogart in the movie In a Lonely Place.

I know it isn't one of your fancy book readin' quotes, but I like it. Also this:

And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths that one must die.

That one is from The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

>> No.1650323

the opening quote from Gatsby, about not criticizing people because they might not have had the same benefits as you.

Great advice.

>> No.1650326

>>1650323
Great advice which nobody follows, or is able to follow, as evinced within the rest of the book.

Truely great.

>> No.1650327

>>1650326
Nick does.

>> No.1650334

Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks - Dr Dre

Alexander the Great conquered the world at thirty-three. Brownbear is only eighteen. - A few of my peers

>> No.1650347

>>1650334
>implying brownbear isn't in a special little peerless category all to himself, no plebes allowed

>> No.1650370

>>1650347
>>1650347
thanks