Quote O' The Day

[dragonz]

context does NOT change the fact that you are insensitive.

duz peelz need his blanky?
Time for a nice quiet lie-down & think happy thoughts..........

[Krandall]

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality." -Erich Fromm


The real thing that differentiates us from animals, Fromm mused, isn't our upright posture; "That was present in the apes long before the brain began to develop." It's not our use of tools, or even our awareness of the rest of the world; animals "are aware of objects; they know this is one thing and that another." Rather, it's our self-consciousness; man "knew that he existed and that he was something different, something apart from nature, apart from other people, too." That, too, is the source of all our unhappiness; a human is the only living thing whose life is "a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape."

[Colorado700R]

Leave it to a guy named "Erich" to say something that fucktastic

[Krandall]

[Today at 11:45:39 AM] funyun: still need to buy something for valentines day

[Today at 11:45:46 AM] funyun: stupid ass holiday

[Today at 11:45:49 AM] Adam: ba, me too

[Today at 11:45:53 AM] Krandall:

[Today at 11:45:54 AM] Cammy: funners men aren't picky

[Krandall]

"Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything." -Henry Adams


The Education of Henry Adams is widely considered one of the most important autobiographies ever written; it's a reflection on a world moving gradually but dramatically into the future (Adams was born before the Civil War and died in 1918, an era of x-rays and radio waves). The focus of the book revolves around education; particularly the shortcomings of the 19th-century system. "No man, even at 60, had ever been known to attain knowledge; but that a very few were believed to have attained ignorance, which was in result the same," Adams wrote. "More than this, in every society worth the name, the man of sixty had been encouraged to ride this hobby -- the Pursuit of Ignorance in Silence -- as though it were the easiest way to get rid of him."

[Krandall]

[Today at 09:48:03 AM] del ban funyun: just like the raptor and the DS

[Today at 09:48:41 AM] del ban funyun: but we get by because yamahas look better

[Today at 09:48:42 AM] del ban funyun:

[Krandall]

"To be smart enough to get all that money, you must be dull enough to want it." -G.K. Chesterton


In A Miscellany of Men, British author Chesterton drew the distinction between the "merely" rich and those who have amassed enough wealth to wield real power -- "men with the largest of earthly fortunes and the smallest of earthly aims." Chesterton continued, "The moderately rich include all kinds of people -- even good people... Some doctors have really grown wealthy by curing their patients and not by flattering them; some brewers have been known to sell beer. But among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away."

[Krandall]

[Today at 04:09:59 PM] Geo: i put a funnel in my penis hole and pour super pump max down it

[Krandall]

"The life of every citizen is becoming a business. Man's life is not a business." -Saul Bellow


Saul Bellow was one of North America's most esteemed men of letters. In his lifetime he won a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize, and he was the only author to win the National Book Award three times. This line comes from Herzog, which follows the mid-life crisis of the titular Moses Herzog, who makes the above observation before adding: "This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen."

[Colorado700R]

 Kenneth: Krandall, now your just being an idiot. lol

[Krandall]

[Today at 03:57:15 PM] del ban THIS SPACE FOR RENT: come on man I need a fix!.....I suck yo dick.........

[Krandall]

"Women love only those whom they do not know." -Mikhail Lermontov



Lermontov was a 19th-century Russian poet and novelist who wrote his most enduring novel, A Hero of Our Time, only two years before he was killed in a duel at the age of 26. This line is one of the novel's many (often unreliable or misleading) reflections on the nature of love. The narrator Pechorin observes that in romance, "Your silence ought to excite her curiosity, your conversation ought never to satisfy it completely; you should alarm her every minute... If you do not acquire authority over her, even her first kiss will not give you the right to a second." Ironically, Lermontov's antihero narrator is giving this advice to a close friend he will soon kill in a duel.

[Cammy]

[Today at 03:57:15 PM] del ban THIS SPACE FOR RENT: come on man I need a fix!.....I suck yo dick.........

He'd do it too.

[Krandall]

"[Man] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever." -William Faulkner



This quote is from the banquet speech Faulkner gave when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. "Our tragedy today," said Faulkner in December of 1950, "is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it." Responding to the paranoia of a postwar, post-Hiroshima world, Faulkner tried to address the fear he referenced in the above quote ("There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up?"). There is, Faulkner decided, "no room in [a writer's] workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking, which any story is ephemeral and doomed-love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice."

[Krandall]

"The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming... To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history." -Bertrand Russell



This observation is from Russell's The Conquest of Happiness, in which the eminent mathematician and philosopher essentially tackled the meaning of life. "Love of power, like vanity, is a strong element in normal human nature, and as such is to be accepted; it becomes deplorable only when it is excessive or associated with an insufficient sense of reality. Where this occurs it makes a man unhappy or foolish if not both," noted Russell. He used Alexander the Great as an example - "psychologically of the same type as the lunatic, though he possessed the talent to achieve the lunatic's dream." Russell argued that Alexander's ambition always outstripped even his grandest accomplishments. "When it became dear that he was the greatest conqueror known to fame, he decided that he was a GERD."