General / Off-Topic dangerous quotes

[znôrt]

"What is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms—in short, a sum of human relations which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins."

 

[Chaparral]

So, you have embraced the religion of post-modernism? Or are you criticizing it? I hope the latter.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

a gold coin has value even without markings to let you what value it should have, and in most cases, the value they derive from their "pictures" is irrelevant to all but some collectors. some "coins" are always valuable regardless of marks are on them. others are worthless without the value assigned to it by an authority which may or may not be recognized by everyone.

thus there are universal truths, and there things that some try to make true by fiat.

 

[znôrt]

i thought it's a beautiful and interesting quote to share. i don't see yours?

 

[znôrt]

actually, i envisioned a thread with just quotes. silly me, but bang on! just bang on!

 

[Turd Ferguson]

i thought it's a beautiful and interesting quote to share. i don't see yours?

a gold coin has value even without markings to let you what value it should have, and in most cases, the value they derive from their "pictures" is irrelevant to all but some collectors. some "coins" are always valuable regardless of marks are on them. others are worthless without the value assigned to it by an authority which may or may not be recognized by everyone.

thus there are universal truths, and there things that some try to make true by fiat.

there. now it's a quote.

 

[znôrt]

there. now it's a quote.

i knew someone would make sense of it all!

 

[CMDR Big Mike]

“To the question of, what is all this micro computer
And computer business is going to do to our society
The case is that we are humans
And we are much adaptable to our environment than the computer is to it's own”

 

[Habu2u]

A credit earned is an hour burned.

 

[VR Jay Le Chardon]

Whisper your way to success.

You can't make a deal if you're dead.

You can't free a fish from water.

A plan that assumes a passive enemy is not a plan, it is a day dream.

 

[VR Jay Le Chardon]

And my personal favourite:

You cannae spend a shilling twice...

 

[Chaparral]

"can't let the little pricks generation gap you"

 

[IndigoWyrd]

No Expectations.™

Goes hand in hand with Frontier's own: No Promises, No ETA's™ and Soon™

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

"can't let the little pricks generation gap you"

That took me a moment. I'll raise you:

"Christ! Rat in a business suit."

 

[Schmack]

"Dyin' aint much of a livin', boy" -Josey Wales

This is what I tell to the pirates that pop in and ask me how they're going to make a living when I'm not hauling anything.

 

[Flimley]

To some, I am just a dream. To others, A NIGHTMARE !

Flimley

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Since no one can say it better than the man himself:

 

[Jenner]

Quote thread!

General / Off-Topic - Favourite quotes (new thread)

...because I couldn't find the old one. Either it got blasted during the move, or the Search still isn't really up to snuff. "Depression is your avatar telling you that it's tired of being the character you're trying to play" -Jim Carrey

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