Pensamentos e citações

''Se os matadouros tivessem paredes de vidro, ninguém comeria carne" Paul McCartney

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
"Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see."
— Benjamin Franklin

"A «perpetuação da espécie» é um eufemismo vulgar de reprodução e é indubitavelmente uma consequência desta." - R. Dawkins, em O Gene Egoísta.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kraft durch Freude escreveu:

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grande pensador!

Aqui ficam mais duas dele:

"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it"
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same"

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” - Bertrand Russell

Dazkarieh escreveu:

E este desejar
Que não acaba não
Louco procurar
Por algo que não seja em vão

Parte da letra da música "Estrela de Cinco Pontas" no álbum Incógnita Alquimia de Dazkarieh.

Citação :

Pale Blue Dot

It’s the twentieth anniversary of the famous “pale blue dot” photo – Earth as seen from Voyager 1 while on the edge of our solar system (approximately 3,762,136,324 miles from home). Sagan’s words are always worth remembering:

Carl Sagan escreveu:

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

Fonte: http://blog.jmlynch.org/2010/02/13/pale-blue-dot/

"O pensamento colectivo é estúpido porque é colectivo: nada passa as barreiras do colectivo sem deixar nelas, como real de água, a maior parte da inteligência que traga consigo."

Fernando Pessoa

E com isto antevejo a estupidez colectiva no dia 5 de Junho...

O que há a 5 de Junho?

Nuno escreveu:

O que há a 5 de Junho?

O fim do mundo já era, por isso há a next best thing: eleições legislativas

Ah, pois é. Esquece xD

Estava a pensar se havia alguma manif, ou assim..

Nuno escreveu:

O que há a 5 de Junho?

A minha festa de aniversário, claro!

Vampiria escreveu:

E com isto antevejo a estupidez colectiva no dia 5 de Junho...

"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."
- Anatole France

Vampiria escreveu:

"O pensamento colectivo é estúpido porque é colectivo: nada passa as barreiras do colectivo sem deixar nelas, como real de água, a maior parte da inteligência que traga consigo."

Fernando Pessoa

E com isto antevejo a estupidez colectiva no dia 5 de Junho...

x2

Al-Ma'arri, a fucking hero:

Citação :

A little doubt is better than total credulity

Citação :

You are diseased in understanding and religion.
Come to me, that you may hear something of sound truth.
Do not unjustly eat fish the water has given up,
And do not desire as food the flesh of slaughtered animals,
Or the white milk of mothers who intended its pure draught
for their young, not noble ladies.
And do not grieve the unsuspecting birds by taking eggs;
for injustice is the worst of crimes.
And spare the honey which the bees get industriously
from the flowers of fragrant plants;
For they did not store it that it might belong to others,
Nor did they gather it for bounty and gifts.
I washed my hands of all this; and wish that I
Perceived my way before my hair went gray!

Citação :

Leaders Wrong Their Subjects

My stay in the world is wearisome:
How long shall I associate with a people
Whose leaders command what is not good for it?
They wronged their subjects, allowed themselves
To deceive them and neglect their interests,
Although they are their hirelings.

Citação :

Servants of the People

If we consider things well,
They surely disclose this secret:
The people's leader is the servant
Of those he rules.

Citação :

The Two Universal Sects

They all err—Moslems, Jews,
Christians, and Zoroastrians:
Humanity follows two world-wide sects:
One, man intelligent without religion,
The second, religious without intellect.

Citação :

Creeds as Fairy Tales

So, too, the creeds of man: the one prevails
Until the other comes; and this one fails
When that one triumphs; ay, the lonesome world
Will always want the latest fairy tales.

Citação :

What is Religion?

What is religion? A maid kept close that no eye may view her;
The price of her wedding gifts and dowry baffles the wooer.
Of all the goodly doctrine that I from the pulpit heard
My heart has never accepted so much as a single word.

Fonte: http://www.humanistictexts.org/al_ma'arri.htm

RedHead escreveu:

Já conhecia essa. Muitos já referiram cenas parecidas! Por exemplo Picasso:

"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal." - Pablo Picasso
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources" - Albert Einstein

E já agora, o que Crazy Legs diz ao início:

Um bocadinho de humor vindo do South Park, conforme samplado numa música da banda Amagortis:

"Once you jack off to Japanese girls puking in each other's mouths, you can't exactly go back to Playboy!"

Averróis escreveu:

Um bocadinho de humor vindo do South Park, conforme samplado numa música da banda Amagortis:

"Once you've jacked off to Japanese girls puking in each others mouth you cant exactly go back to Playboy!"

Grande episódio esse!

Vi isto numa tshirt e acehi brutal

You cannot silence the voice of the voiceless

Rage against the machina

And

Fuck You

Gosto mais desta

"Hell was Full so i Came back"

Eis as minhas favoritas

"Time is the Fire in Which We Burn"

"Life is a hereditary disease"