posted April 27, 2006 02:40 PM         

"You cannot step into the same river twice,
for new waters are always rushing in.
You cannot even step into it once."
- Heraclitus of Ephesus

"Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves.
Whistle and dance the shimmy,
and you've got yourself an audience."
- Diogenes of Sinope

"What good is a philosopher who offends no one?"
- Diogenes of Sinope

"I came not to bring peace, but a sword of division."
- Jesus of Nazareth

"True friendship is opposition."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"When a man contradicts me,
he arouses my attention, not my anger.
It is enough for me that he direct his response
to the substance of my inquiry.
Agreement is utterly boring."
- Michel de Montaigne

"Advice doesn't help Lovers!
They're not the kind of mountain stream
you can build a dam across."
- Jalaluddin Rumi

"As long as your desire is pleasure,
And you cherish your desire,
Carry on playing like a child.
You are not man enough for this."
- Hakim Sanai

"There is nothing good or evil in the world,
But, if a man thinks something is good or evil,
it must become that for him."
- Paul the Apostle

"There is nothing good or bad,
but thinking makes it so."
- William Shakespeare

"Ignorance does not create suffering,
but suffering reveals ignorance."
- Stephen Wallace Coltin

"Where there is suffering there is holy ground."
- Oscar Wilde

"There is no genius without madness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"We are not afraid because the task is difficult,
but, the task is difficult because we are afraid.
He who is brave is free."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Boldness has power and genius in it.
Be bold and mighty foces will come to your aid."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It takes more courage to welcome an enemy,
than to bolt our doors against him;
more compassion to embrace him,
than to attack him;
more patience to receive him,
than to dismiss him;
more tolerance to hear him out,
than to shut him up;
more understanding to reason with him,
than to demonize or accuse him;
more wisdom to instruct him,
than to take him for a fool;
more mercy to forgive him,
than to judge him;
more faith to work out his salvation,
than to plot his next misfortune;
and more strength of will to lift him up,
than to hold him down."
- Stephen Wallace Coltin

"Patriotism ruins history."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
- Oscar Wilde

"I am a citizen of the world."
- Diogenes the Cynic

"Brother see we are one and the same,
And you left with your head filled with flames
and you watched as your brains fell out
through your teeth, push the pieces in place,
make your smile sweet to see,
dont you take this away,
I'm still wanting my face on your cheek."
- Jeff Mangum

"...it seems so easy for people to get along that have empathy."
- Kurt Cobain

"Judgement is the antithesis of understanding."
- Stephen Wallace Coltin

"Forgive them, for they know not what they do."
- Jesus of Nazareth

"Look at those cavemen go."
- David Bowie