Other Peoples Quotes

Here are some quotes written by other people... from the famous and the not so famous.... Its all the same...

                     "...It makes you think..." -Daria (the coolest toon)

"No man knows, or ever will know, the truth about gods and about everything; for even if one happened by chance to say the complete truth, nevertheless one would not know it." -Xenophanes, philosopher.

"Don't Let The Man Get You Down... DAMN THE MAN... Save The Empire..." -Empire Records (my fave movie)

"Human beings are animals. We are sometimes monsters, sometimes magnificent, but always animals. We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are risen apes." -Desmond Morris, curator of Mammals at the London Zoo, author of The Human Animal; A Personal View of the Human Species

"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity" -Wittgenstein, 20th Century Philosopher

"Plato explains that most human beings live as if in a dim cave. We are chained, he says, and facing a blank wall, with fire at our backs. All we see are flickering shadows playing across the cave wall, and this we take to be reality. Only if we learn to turn away from the wall and the shadows, and escape from the cave, can we hope to see the true light of reality." -Plato, (in the words of Paul Strathern, Plato in 90 Minutes)

"Racism is a product of fear and ignorance. The world is richer for the mixture of different types of people--live and let live--remove fear," -Gavin Rossdale, of BUSH

"Minds are like parachutes; they only function properly when open..." -Unknown

 "Money is not the root of all evil. The greed which comes from money, is the evil." -Levi

"Much of humanity tends to think that wisdom and intelligence are found in complexity....I say wisdom and intelligence are found in SIMPLICITY!" -Levi

"An eye for an eye, only ends up making the whole world blind..." -Gandhi (from the movie)

"As long as there is poverty, there will be gods..." -Will Durant

"Three species [of animals] are wipped off this planet everyday.  You wonder how many new ones are being created" -Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) in the X-Files... he refers to the creation of genetically mutated animals and other freaky stiff like that... those created by people...

"Balance in everything! Too much of a good thing is bad. The only exception is love. Ya can't get enough of it. It's like jello.  Theres always room for it!"
-Andy

"How do you expect people to understand you, when you can't even understand yourself?"  -Dana

If you have any cool quotes.. please send 'em to me at marc_sux@yahoo.com

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