Favorite Quote?

[QuantumT]

I know that I know nothing.

- Socrates

[henry quirk]

declared by Ash Williams, just before he shot his doppelganger in the face

[QuantumT]

henry, now that you're annoying again again again, you made me think of a song about the next most annoying creature I know: The fly!

(Translated from Danish:)

I'm the fly and I have wings attached
That's why I don't bother using my legs
I was not made for something great
That's why you will find me on a turd.

- Shu-Bi-Dua

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWexKjXxwcU

[henry quirk]

declared by 'me', to 'you'

[QuantumT]

There is an extended version.

(Translated from Danish:)

I can't dude, how can I sound like a fly? How the hell can I sound like a fly?
I am bzzzz... I have... Hahahaha...
I'm the fly and I have wings attached
That's why I don't bother using my legs
I was not made for something great
That's why you will find me on a turd.
On a turd... Bzzz.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r41IhLudGw8

- Shu-Bi-Dua

[henry quirk]

凸(-_-)凸

[-1-]

I know that I know nothing.

- Socrates

That is actually a paradoxical statement. If know nothing, then I don't know that I don't know everything. Therefore I must know at least something.

A true statement would be "I know that I don't know everything". However, this could not be verified.

Or else "I don't know what is unknown to me." Tautology.

Or else "Not everything is an unknown." Empirical tautology.

[-1-]

"In order to hate someone else, first you must learn how to hate yourself."

"If "Jewry" is a bunch of Jews, then what's a "country"?" (Needs to be pronounced for proper appreciation.)

"If you want piss in your soup, first piss off the waiting staff."

[bahman]

We are minds covered by stuff.

[attofishpi]

Reality is a convoluted apparition of the Truth.

(by me, and from years of experience)

[Philosophy Explorer]

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. - Jean Rostand, biologist and philosopher (1894-1977).

PhilX

[Philosophy Explorer]

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
– Philip K. Dick

PhilX

[Walker]

What licks can bite.

[-1-]

Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration - Thomas Edison

PhilX

This was true for Edison, but not for people like da Vinci, Tesla, Emerson, Teller, Moses and Manson.

[-1-]

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
– Philip K. Dick

PhilX

This is actually very good. I like this.