Quotes thread.

"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe."
"Don't ... depend on current fashion or ... popular opinion."

"Illegitimi non carborundum."

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

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I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
- Elon Musk

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest." -Hermann Hesse

“What do you mean, there isn't "any more" garlic bread?” — Cat

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” (J.R.R. Tolkien)

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." (John Anster)

"What is time, but a pattern of reality."

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear" -- Albert Camus

"Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - Modern translation from Hamlet by Shakespeare

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” - Dumbledore to Harry in Harry Potter 7 by JK Rowling

"I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face." Johnny Depp

"Life is the sum of all your choices."
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time." Albert Camus

"Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."-Leonardo da Vinci

"The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches." Eric Hoffer

Smile_phantomhive said:

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” (J.R.R. Tolkien)

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So much for science... Guess the great Tolkien doesn't need ink, among other things.:tongue:

Nephandus said:

"The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches." Eric Hoffer



So much for science... Guess the great Tolkien doesn't need ink, among other things.:tongue:

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Heh. I debated explaining what it means at least to me in my original post, as I had an inkling someone would bring this up...

The context of the quote is when Gandalf and Saruman speak of his robes showing all colours; he is no longer Saruman the white. Saruman speaks of breaking the white light, to which Gandalf replies something along the lines of 'it is then no longer white', which to me references the light of the trees and their destruction. Just as Gandalf's words were rather specific (in my understanding), this quote is not to be applied broadly. I relate it to specific things; when something is astounding, useful and remarkable on its own, and in your process to understand it, you render it useless and utterly destroyed and achieve nothing but destruction for the sake of your greed or lust - you 'left the path of wisdom'.