"We've learned from history that we do not learn anything from history" - unknown
"Nothing succeeds more often than failure" - unknown
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"We've learned from history that we do not learn anything from history" - unknown
"Nothing succeeds more often than failure" - unknown
that's a good quoteQuote:
Originally Posted by xtristessax
ha, well, thank you, but it should say 'when they', not 'we they'...lol!
"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. "
"He who laughs, lasts!"
--Both by Mary Pettibone Poole
I asked the same thing when I read that.Quote:
Originally Posted by wendyful04
Maybe the quoter means that questioning myself daily will allow me to discern reality from fantasy. Maybe the main point is that truth can withstand endless questioning, but falsehood cannot. Dunno... just taking a stab.
I like that explanation betterQuote:
Originally Posted by Wheeljak
It's about waking from the dream.Quote:
Originally Posted by wendyful04
I think the truth is that delusions are always surface, and that the "deep down" is actually the understanding of their falseness.
Yes... but what it points to also is that the darkness of illusion (or delusion) cannot withstand the light of your consciousness. So, you may actually eliminate your delusion by constantly being aware of it and being more conscious. In short... wake up! Pay attention!Quote:
Originally Posted by Wheeljak
God does not play dice- Albert Einstein
"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual." - Walt Whitman
"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. " --Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is Science. -Wendy B
In memorum: (s'cuse the spellings)
"I'll have the Friggin' Chickasee - I mean, the Chicken Frigasee".
Dom.
Tolstoy: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
"Everything in life has to be beaten into submission." -Louis85
"you can stuff a weasel into a jet engine but that wont make your tires squeak"...debbie boone...
"The absolute truth is that we do not have control even over our next breath. So why worry at all? " -SUMA VARUGHESE
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
- Thomas Jefferson
Sorry. The Libertarian in me is screaming right now.
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil.
They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?"
Sister Miriam Godwinson
[fictitious character in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]