i've been searching for quotes to use on my new site.
ill post em here.

"He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Once for all I wish to be blind to many things--Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"To speak of right and wrong per se makes no sense at all. No act of violence, rape, exploitation, destruction, is intrinsically unjust, since life itself is violent, rapacious, exploitative, and destructive, and cannot be conceived otherwise."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He."
-Friedrich Nietzsche (THIS ONE ROCKS!)

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"A man recovers best from his exceptional nature--his intellectuality--by giving his animal instincts a chance."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
-Albert Einstein

"The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
-H.P. Lovecraft

"The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable."
-H. L. Mencken

"Posthumous men, like myself, are not so well understood as men who reflect their age, but they are heard with more respect. In plain English: we are never understood--hence our authority."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"You just can't escape the conclusion that half the people you know are below average."
-Scaramouche

"Life is tale told by an idiot, full of sound and furry, signifying nothing."
-William Shakespeare

"No human thing is of serious importance."
-Plato

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ouselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
-Sophocles

"Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life."
-Robert Byrne

"If a choice were given him between suffering death and living his early years over again, who would not shudder and choose death?"
-Augustine

"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another...It's one damn thing over and over."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness."
-David Dunham

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
-Andre Gide

"Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation."
-Bertrand Russell

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false."
-Paul Valéry


"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
-Robert Heinlein

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
-H. P. Lovecraft

"There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by makebelieve."
-W. Somerset Maugham

"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so."
-Bertrand Russell

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards."
-R. A. Dickson

"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. "
-Samuel Johnson

"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
-Calvin

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
-Aldous Huxley

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato, The Republic

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates