karkarius Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 "I believe that life is just a ride. And on that ride we get distracted and angry at things that happen along the ride. And occasionally somebody comes along and says, 'hey, don't take it too seriously because it's just a ride.' And we kill those people." -- Bill Hicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maples Oaks and Porcupine Trees Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boots Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 "Evil is not something superhuman. It's something less than human." ~ Agatha Christie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHAMILEHIGH Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 I am now 48, I have payed my share. It's 2010, I WANT MY JET PACK and I WANT IT NOW! -ME- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boots Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 "Don't worry about the people who make fun of you for being single. Someday they'll be widowed or divorced. Karma is a bitch." --Jerome Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Running Rebel Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 Life lives, life dies Life laughs, life cries But everyone sees life through different eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boots Posted September 24, 2010 Share Posted September 24, 2010 "Life is too short to be little." ~ Benjamin Disraeli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHAMILEHIGH Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 QUOTE (RUSHAMILEHIGH @ Aug 11 2010, 08:34 PM) I am now 48, I have payed my share. It's 2010, I WANT MY JET PACK and I WANT IT NOW! -ME- This Guy walking down the street fell in a hole, The Walls are to high and he can't get out. A Doctor walks by and the guy says "Hey can you help me out?" The Doctor writes a prescription and throws it in the hole and moves on. A Priest walks by and the Guy says "Hey can you help me out?" The Priest writes down a prayer and throws it in the hole and moves on. A Friend walks by the hole, the guy says " Hey Joe, Can you help me out?" The Friend Jumps in the hole. The Guy says "Are you stupid, Now both of us are down here." The Friend says "Yeah but I've been down here before and I Know the way out." THE WEST WING Season 2, Episode 10, "Noel" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 At the risk of quoting CS Lewis on a Rush forum, I submit the following, which is actually quite libertarian: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted September 26, 2010 Author Share Posted September 26, 2010 QUOTE (laughedatbytime @ Sep 26 2010, 09:53 AM) At the risk of quoting CS Lewis on a Rush forum, I submit the following, which is actually quite libertarian: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." You have my permission to quote C. S. Lewis anytime you like! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boots Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 "This too shall pass." I don't know where it came from, but everyone seems to use it. It always makes me feel better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
librarian Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 "When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose" Bob Dylan - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the masked drummer Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 "The only thing worse than having to go to work is not having a job" -tmd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the masked drummer Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 QUOTE (RUSHAMILEHIGH @ Aug 11 2010, 08:34 PM) I am now 48, I have payed my share. It's 2010, I WANT MY JET PACK and I WANT IT NOW! -ME- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHAMILEHIGH Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 QUOTE (the masked drummer @ Sep 28 2010, 10:56 AM) QUOTE (RUSHAMILEHIGH @ Aug 11 2010, 08:34 PM) I am now 48, I have payed my share. It's 2010, I WANT MY JET PACK and I WANT IT NOW! -ME- I AM NOW.... COMPLETE. Thank You Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya_Big_Tree Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. ~ Hunter S. Thompson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micgtr71 Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
librarian Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Your ability to find the silly in the serious will take you far - (Chinese fortune cookie) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbo Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 (edited) Yay, philosophy! Nothing's better than a bunch of depressed guys. This is technically from Specters of Marx, but I like it in relation to Derrida's final interview, Learning to Live Finally "To live, by definition, is something one learns. Not from oneself, it is not learned from life, taught by life. Only from the other and by death" (14) I could probably quote that entire text (not from memory). From Entre Nous not by RUSH (hehe!) but by Levinas. "... one hand touches the touching... it as if space were touching through man" (112). "... the essential thing is to approach unity. The essential thing is fusion. We say that love is a fusion, that it triumphs in fusion" (113). And basically the rest of that chapter, especially where he praises the ladies. And... "I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific." -Lily Tomlin, which I happened to have taken out of Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates, which I highly recommend over any other philosophical text any day. Edited October 19, 2010 by garbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 I wonder if a favorite of Neil's is the old Sartre quote: Hell is other people. Sometimes I find myself in agreement, though usually not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbo Posted October 24, 2010 Share Posted October 24, 2010 QUOTE (laughedatbytime @ Oct 23 2010, 11:08 AM) I wonder if a favorite of Neil's is the old Sartre quote: Hell is other people. Sometimes I find myself in agreement, though usually not... I think he's more inspired by Being and Nothingness and Essays in Existentialism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 QUOTE (garbo @ Oct 23 2010, 11:32 PM) QUOTE (laughedatbytime @ Oct 23 2010, 11:08 AM) I wonder if a favorite of Neil's is the old Sartre quote: Hell is other people. Sometimes I find myself in agreement, though usually not... I think he's more inspired by Being and Nothingness and Essays in Existentialism. Wouldn't it be an oxymoron to be inspired by existentialism? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdryan Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 I love women, I have all their albums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMWriter Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 Everything Neil Peart has EVER said. ...Okay, okay, that's pushing it, but in truth I really am inspired by him. "An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." -Mohandas Gandhi (I pretty much idolize that man.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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