Quote O' The Day

[phucker]

[Today at 05:33:43 PM] del ban Krandall: have it say somethin like.... "raptorsource.... Your source for raptors and buttsekz"

[phucker]

[Today at 06:05:12 PM] del ban Spartan727: I remember seeing the group by the dodge but never really stopped by

[Today at 06:05:27 PM] del ban Spartan727: Faces are kinda hard to remember now... I have a bad photographic memory

[Today at 06:05:44 PM] del ban phucker: ya you just remember asses

[dragonz]

"I have a photographic memory, just seem to be having an issue with getting the prints developed"

[Krandall]

'We choose our men friends that we might have someone to talk about women with.' -William Butler Yeats


Yeats made this observation in a letter to British novelist Ethel Mannin. It was probably a familiar sentiment for the Irish poet, who spent much of his life desperate for the affections of various women who were perpetually uninterested in him, even including the daughter of his lifelong love interest. Despite his romantic travails, Yeats was a brilliant poet and important literary figure -- one of the first literary personalities to represent the national identity of an independent Ireland -- and he won the Nobel Prize in 1923.

[Krandall]

'All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone.' -Thomas de Quincey

De Quincey was an English author and essayist mostly known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. As the name suggests, Confessions is about de Quincey's lifelong addiction to opium-derived laudanum, and its psychological effects on his life. This quote, from Autobiographic Sketches, is about the value and hardship of solitude, which is "like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man... King and priest, warrior and maiden, philosopher and child, all must walk those mighty galleries alone."

[Krandall]

'A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.' -Henry David Thoreau
At the age of 27, on the 4th of July, Thoreau set out to live in a house he'd built in the woods, in relative isolation, with a goal of total self-sufficiency. Though Thoreau proudly took very little with him -- he actually enumerates all his expenses in the book, coming up with a total materials cost of $28.12 -- the line isn't about material simplicity, but his planned use of the land at Walden Pond. Walden has since become more of a symbol of the transcendentalist credo than it was in his day; Robert Louis Stevenson summarized the book succinctly and unflatteringly: "In one word, Thoreau was a skulker."

[Krandall]

What shawn says to crystal daily.



[Today at 08:19:09 PM] del ban preddy08: might be a little small

[Krandall]

[Today at 10:48:28 PM] del ban Rep99099: MISS ME?

[Today at 10:48:42 PM] del ban Spartan727: My lil pepe did

[Krandall]

'Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson


In a personal account in his Essays, the Transcendentalist philosopher writes about an acquaintance who decided to avoid all flattery and gossip and to speak frankly at all times. He spoke to all he encountered "with great insight and beauty," and was promptly considered to be mad, but eventually all men who knew him began to treat him with directness and sincerity, lacking any reason to try to do otherwise. When social interaction requires everyone involved to humor one another in some way, Emerson concludes, "To stand in true relations with men in a false age, is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?"

[Segkast]

'Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson


In a personal account in his Essays, the Transcendentalist philosopher writes about an acquaintance who decided to avoid all flattery and gossip and to speak frankly at all times. He spoke to all he encountered "with great insight and beauty," and was promptly considered to be mad, but eventually all men who knew him began to treat him with directness and sincerity, lacking any reason to try to do otherwise. When social interaction requires everyone involved to humor one another in some way, Emerson concludes, "To stand in true relations with men in a false age, is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?"

Love it !

[Krandall]

'A man that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely.' -Francis Bacon

The English philosopher -- a contemporary of Shakespeare and Descartes -- treated science and philosophy as branches of the same discipline, as did most minds of his day. Here, writing about youth and age, he illustrates the temperaments of men with physical properties, explaining that "natures that have much heat," men with volatile natures and great ambitions, are at their best once they've grown more balanced in middle age (he cites Julius Caesar as an example). The experience that comes with age, Bacon adds, is a double-edged sword -- it directs all the things with which it has familiarity, but abuses new ideas outside its scope.

[Krandall]

'A man's soul is rooted in his stomach.' -Charles Bukowski


Like much of Bukowski's work, Factotum is clearly semiautobiographical and inspired by Bukowski's actual life; it follows his alter ego Henry Chinaski as he attempts to make a living as a writer. Examining the myth of the starving artist, Bukowski writes that starvation didn't improve art -- it hindered it: "A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar."

[Colorado700R]

Randy, I thought you were Quoteing Charles Bartowski for a minute

[Krandall]

[Krandall]

'Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.' -Erich Fromm


Prominent German psychologist Erich Fromm argued that a society that has ceased to be guided by an ethical system can't overcome its own struggle with the baser influences of human nature (one of his most well-known books is The Fear of Freedom, published in 1942, which studies the sociology behind the rise of Nazism). Fromm's philosophy about the relationship between man and freedom starts with Genesis, where he identifies the allegorical Adam and Eve as not yet fully human until they have exercised their autonomy and been cast out from Eden, thereby becoming the independent species, separate from nature, that we consider mankind.