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Psychologisch There is more to life than increasing speed. (Er is meer in het leven dan steeds sneller gaan.) Mohandas K. Gandhi It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Krishnamarti, (1895-1986) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. (Iedereen is gek, maar degene die zijn waanideeen kan analyseren, wordt een filosoof genoemd.) Ambrose Bilerce. Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. (Het haten van iemand is hetzelfde als je huis afbranden om van de rat af te komen.) Harry Emerson Fosdick Consider the past and you shall know the future. (Overdenk de geschiedenis en je zal de toekomst kennen.) Chinees gezegde Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize (Of we nu fiosoferen of niet filosoferen, we moeten filosoferen.) Aristotle I think therefore I am (Ergo Cogito Sum) (Ik denk dus ik besta.) Descartes I need a prison in order to dream of being free (Ik heb een gevangenis nodig, om van vrijheid te kunnen dromen.) John Popper (Blues Traveler) Life is what happens to us while we're making other plans (Leven is wat ons overkomt, terwijl we andere plannen maken.) John Lennon A wise man that walks in the dark with a blindfold on, is not much of a wise man (Een wijze man die in het donker met een blinddoek loopt, is niet echt een wijze man.) Chris Senkbeil Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. (Een kalme zee maakt geen goede zeelui.) Oud africaans gezegde Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Onbekend Live in today because your past is not your potential (Leef in het heden, want je verleden is niet je potentieel.). Onbekend You can't get where you want to go if you don't know where you are (Je kunt niet komen waar je wil komen, als je niet weet waar je bent.) Anoniem If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got (Als je ddingen blijft doen zoals je ze altijd gedaan hebt, wat je dan krijgt is wat je al hebt.) Radio Commercial, 1994 Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. (Angst maakt vreemden van mensen die vrienden zouden moeten zijn.) Onbekend Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind. unknown Happiness is the meaning and purpose of Life, the whole aim and end of Human exsistence. unknown No one can make you inferior without your consent. (Niemand kan je de mindere maken, zonder jouw toestemming.) Onbekend If you want the rainbow you have to put up with the rain. unknown To many time we confuse motion with progress. Cyclops Not just passing time and place, but living the experience of being anytime, anyplace. Folkert Ringnalda on the Internet and the future Philosophy, like Medicine, has many drugs, very few good remedies, and almost no specifics. Sebastien-Roch-Nicholas Chamfort (1741-1794) If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. Frederick II, the Great (1712-1786) All that man can say or do that can possibly concern mankind is, in some shape or other, to tell the story of his love-to sing, and if he is fortunate and keeps alive he will be forever in love. This alone is to be alive to the extremeties. It is such a pity that this divine creature should ever suffer from cold feet. A still greater pity that the coldness so often reches to his heart. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) The past is history, The future is a mystery and now is a gift. That's why we call it the present. Unknown The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends. Chinese saying (I think) The best way to predict your future is to create it. Unknown To action alone have you a right, and never at all to its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be your motive; Neither let there be in you any attachment to inaction. From the Bhagvadgita. I would willingly stand on street corners, hat in hand, begging passersby to drop their unused minutes into it. Unknown If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. Marcus Garvey Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go James Baldwin No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. Franz Schubert I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past. Patrick Henry One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. Dr. Martin Luthor King Jr. The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. Mohandas Gandhi I think it would be a great idea. Mohandas Ghandi's answer when asked what he thought of Western Civilization Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Robert M. Pirsig If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there. unknown The shadows we see on the walls in front of us come from the flashlight we hold behind us. David Nicoll Time exists so that not everything happens at once. unknown How do you know you are there? When you don't have to ask the question anymore. unknown We stand within the realm of that which hides itself. Martin Heidegger When you follow your bliss, and by bliss I mean the deep sense of being in it and doing what the push is out of your own existence, you follow that, and doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors. And where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. Joseph Campbell Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, you've got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. Mel Brooks I don't want the cheese, I just want out of the trap. Spanish Proverb My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous. Quentin Crisp It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying 'really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style. Quentin Crisp A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. Alfred Alder Nor do I seek to understand that I believe, but I believe that I may understand. For this too I believe, that unless I first believe, I shall not understand. St. Anslem There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. William Jennings Bryan |
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| Humor Baldrick, you wouldn't recognize a cunning plan if it painted itself purple, danced on a harpsycord and sang: 'Cunning plans are here again'. Blackadder after Baldrick uttered the words: 'I have a cunning plan' I fear the words 'I have a cunning plan' are rapidly marching towards this conversation with ill-deserved confidence. Blackadder to Baldrick, about to say . . . The certain proof that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that no one has bothered to make contact with us Anonymous I had a lovely evening. Unfortunately, this wasn't it. Groucho Marx, on leaving a dull party. Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car Laurence J. Peter Take your life into your own hands, and what happens. A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious. Roger Berg The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you are still a rat! Lily Tomlin I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen Your in big trouble when your mom sets you up on a blind date Chris Cleary That guy couldn't sell out a phone booth to his parents. A music promoter when speaking about an act he didn't like. "New Year's Resolutions" is a marketing Campaign invented by the makers of Nicotine Flavoured Chewing Gum Unknown I used to believe in reincarnation, but that was long ago, in another life. Dave Schinbeckler You can't imagine the extra work I had when I was a god. Hirohito, Emporer of Japan (1901-1989) A camel is a horse designed by a committee. Unknown It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats. Unknown You know it is going to be a bad day when... you wake up and discover that your waterbed sprang a leak, and then realize that you don't have a waterbed. Unknown If my grandmother had balls, she'd be my grandfather. Yiddish saying Flattery is all right, if you don't inhale. Adlai Stevenson Yes, God made man first, but there's always a rough draft before the final copy. Unknown How much money did you make last year? Mail it in. Simplified tax form suggested by Stanton Delaplane Anyone who hates Dogs and Kids Can't be All Bad. W. C. Fields I don't care to belong to any organization that accepts me as a member Groucho Marx in a letter of resignation sent to a Hollywood club. Sometimes you're the windshield ... sometimes you're the bug!! Mark Knopfler Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry. John Jensen There's so much polution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all in. Robert Orben Either this wallpaper goes or I do. Famous last words Thank you, but I have other plans. Response to 'Have a nice day' suggested by Paul Fussel That's a great outfit you're wearing . . . I have just the perfect hanger for it. anonymus |
| Wetenschap
This book fills a much-needed gap. Moses Hadas when he was asked to say something nice about a fellow scientist's new book I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it. Erwin Schrodinger talking about quantum mechanics. A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting. Dr. Who Door meten tot weten. (To knowledge by measurement) Kammerlingh, Dutch low temperature physicist It is the business of the future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. Alfred North Whitehead Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious. Marvin Minsky There is no gravity, the earth just sucks. Unknown Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants. Sir Isaac Newton As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Only two things are certain: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) All science is either physics or stamp collecting. Ernest (1st Baron) Rutherford (1871-1937) The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't. Ernest (1st Baron) Rutherford (1871-1937) Never express yourself more clearly than you think. Neils Bohr (1885-1962) In the pure and physical sciences each generation inherits the consequences made by its predecessors, but in the moral sciences, particularly the arts of administration, the ground seems never to be incontestably won. Unknown The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it) but "That's funny..." Isaac Asimov |
| Werk I love my job, it' s the work I hate. Give us the tools and we will finish the job Winston Churchill We work not only to produce but to give value to time Delacroix I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) Work is a four letter word! Unknown Hard work never killed anybody, but why take the chance? Edgar Bergen A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind. Unknown Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. Frederick W. Taylor Few great men could pass Personnel. Paul Goodman (1911-1972) WARNING TO ALL PERSONNEL Firings will continue until moral improves Unknown |
| Strategie
Why is it that if you kill a man in war your are a hero, but if you kill a man outside of war you are called a murderer? Jonathan Grimes They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judegement and iron will; but he was most loved for the enemies he made General Edward S. Bragg (speaking about Grover Cleveland) First, we're going to cut it (the Iraqi Army) off, then we're going to kill it. Colin Powell About the military : If it moves, salute it. If it does not move pick it up. If you can not pick it up,paint it! Unknown Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Robert Frost The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. General G.C. Patton (1885-1945) While your saving your face, your losing your ass, President Lyndon Johnson (1908-1973) There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. Douglas MacArthur War is based on deception. Sun tzu (+/- 500 B.C.) To secure peace is to prepare for war. Carl von Clausewitz It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. Darrin Weinberg We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out; there's not much you can do about it because the reasons for your failure are within yourselves. Konosuke Matsushita "Is there any one point to which you wish to draw my attention?" "To the curious incident of the dog at nighttime." "The dog did nothing in the nighttime!" "That was the curiouse incident." Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in Silver Blaze When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. Lao Tse You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Al Capone |