Submissions
These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.
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tiny.ag/hrhuscvd · submitted 2003
Reflex knowledge. Just like the mirror reflects itself through the reflected object, so Man knows himself through the object known.
Heroic furore. The six senses without reason are “non-sense”, reason without them a castle in the air.
Beyond. Often we attribute to the words of a speaker meanings that go ‘beyond’ the significance given them by the speaker himself.
Involution. On the circumference of a circle: he who believes he is going forward is going backward instead.
Decadence. Whatever survives its death becomes a rotting receptacle of flies and disease.
Sentimental interpretations. Quite often we consider “altruism” what could very well be the effect of perfect egotism.
ken, http://www.geocities.com/psychosophy_net
tiny.ag/oz1boywp · submitted 2003
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
tiny.ag/tnpo4slg · submitted 2003
Â’T is better to have loved and lost
Than
never to have loved at all.
Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam. xxvii. Stanza 4
tiny.ag/b78xhmfq · submitted 2003
Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all.
Arthur Hugh Clough, From Peshiera
tiny.ag/merw5dbf · submitted 2003
It was better to have boomed and busted than never to have boomed at all.
Alan Greenspan, Fed Chairman
tiny.ag/t5myckzl · submitted 2003
"When in despair, hope; in happiness, beware"
old Roman Proverb, heard on HGTV on Extreme Homes
tiny.ag/xlocudop · submitted 2003
Life is real, love is real, and pain is real. Nothing more.
tiny.ag/1mafqthl · submitted 2003
To love, there must be something to be loved. Without something, there can be nothing.
tiny.ag/cfdni5ai · submitted 2003
If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.
Warren Buffett, aka The Oracle of Omaha
tiny.ag/bmha72cv · submitted 2003
"'Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all."
Arthur Hugh Clough, from Peshiera
tiny.ag/d7frnn0o · submitted 2003
Propaganda does not decieve people; it merely helps them decieve themselves.
tiny.ag/tr32i5mv · submitted 2003
Morality is doing what is right no matter what you're told. Religion is doing what you're told no matter what is right.
tiny.ag/exytbslr · submitted 2003
Experience is what we get when we don't get what we want.
tiny.ag/0qmzrwyl · submitted 2003
C students -- you too can be president.
George W Bush, Said in a Yale Commencement Speech
tiny.ag/fvexdgib · submitted 2003
You can't kill a man until you've killed his name.
tiny.ag/z2yyixru · submitted 2003
Love is love, yes indeed. But there are plenty who call molestation "love."
Calling perversity by a divine name does not change its true nature.
tiny.ag/lagekq2n · submitted 2002
Gay, lesbian, straight- why should it matter? Love is Love.
tiny.ag/hng5k9re · submitted 2002
What if salvation were not by divine grace through Christ? What if it were rather, as many apostate faiths claim, based upon a tally of works and good deeds? What an unholy, wretched, unjust system that would be-- where a soul could be damned to eternal torment for falling below some unknown arbitrary "line of morality" by the smallest of infractions!
tiny.ag/c8mgn0zd · submitted 2002
We percieve that the structure and the order of the Universe is sustained by the will and the presence of the Creator. We know that Hell is the one place where God is not. Thus we understand: Hell is not some specially designed eternal torture chamber for the execution of Divine sadism. It is simply what happens to the Universe when God withdraws Himself.... and those who go there do so because they desired to be away from His presence.
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