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Originally posted by CSflim
"Modern theists might acknowledge that, when it comes to Baal and the Golden Calf, Thor and Wotan, Poseidon and Apollo, Mithras and Ammon Ra, they are actually atheists. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
-Richard Dawkins
Originally posted by djtestudo
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
My ex-roommate Duke.
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Those made me laugh out loud at the risk of waking my 18 mo. old. I like this version of the latter:
"Give a man a beer and he'll waste the afternoon. Teach a man to brew and he'll waste the rest of his life." I think Charlie Papazian may have said it, but it could easily have been someone else.
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Originally posted by high_way
"Don't think! Feeeeel. It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory."
bruce lee - enter the dragon
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I like that one. Every so often when someone (usually my wife) is picking apart the wrong part of something I just said, I'll say "Ferkristssake, stop looking at the finger and look at the moon!"
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Originally posted by tiberry
Stop wasting your time trying to learn - just remember what you already know.
- Me
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Actually, that and the one I have quated before it are both paraphrases of quotes by Medeival Chinese Buddhists who's names I forget.