Submissions

It would not be hard to prove with sufficient repitition that a square is in fact a circle. What after all are a square and a circle? They are mere words and words can be moulded to hide ideas in disguise.

Joseph Paul Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda

Every new technology medium seems to enjoy a delicious moment, between being born as a vehicle for human creativity controlled by no one, into a Pigopolistic advertising channel, controlled by very few.

Andrew Orlowski, Taken from an article in The Register

Bastard Operators don't just win. Anyone can win. Bastard Operators win and totally demoralize. That's real winning.

Simon Travaglia, From the "Bastard Operator from Hell"

If I ever happen to fall... I hope its not in shit.

Julius Berrius

Put a man behind a mask and you will get the truth from him.

Unknown

Profits due to an increasing price level are only fictitious. If they are consumed, capital is consumed.

Fritz Machlup, Review of Economic Statistics, 1935

"To understand the behavior of large organizations, imagine that it is secretly controlled by a cabal dedicated to its destruction."

Unknown

Get me a damned one-armed economist.

Harry S Truman

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Adam "Finley" King, Battle of Wits [WWII cryptanalysis]

Reflex knowledge. Just like the mirror reflects itself through the reflected object, so Man knows himself through the object known.

Heroic furore. The six senses without reason are “non-sense”, reason without them a castle in the air.

Beyond. Often we attribute to the words of a speaker meanings that go ‘beyond’ the significance given them by the speaker himself.

Involution. On the circumference of a circle: he who believes he is going forward is going backward instead.

Decadence. Whatever survives its death becomes a rotting receptacle of flies and disease.

Sentimental interpretations. Quite often we consider “altruism” what could very well be the effect of perfect egotism.

ken, http://www.geocities.com/psychosophy_net

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

Â’T is better to have loved and lost
Than
never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam. xxvii. Stanza 4

Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all.

Arthur Hugh Clough, From Peshiera

It was better to have boomed and busted than never to have boomed at all.

Alan Greenspan, Fed Chairman

"When in despair, hope; in happiness, beware"

old Roman Proverb, heard on HGTV on Extreme Homes

Life is real, love is real, and pain is real. Nothing more.

Myself

To love, there must be something to be loved. Without something, there can be nothing.

Myself

Love can never die, it can only change form.

Myself

If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.

Warren Buffett, aka The Oracle of Omaha

"'Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all."

Arthur Hugh Clough, from Peshiera