Favourite quotes - Page 17

Vinny · 03-30-2005, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Marth:
"God is dead" ~Niezetche

"Niezetche is dead." ~God.

It was on the wall of my english room. sorta funny.

You haven't read where that actually came from, have you? It's really an inaccuracy. The quote "God is dead" came from a story that Nietzsche wrote as an analogy, and the character that said it followed it with "God remains dead. And we have killed him." This implies that God once existed. What Nietzsche was saying was that the morality for which God stood was no longer relevant in an ever-changing age, and people were sometimes rushing into technology and a new lifestyle without considering the old morality that they had previously held dear. It was the character that said that, not Nietzsche, and it was used as an analogy rather than as some sort of smart-assed remark. Nietzsche did not say "God is dead" anymore than Shakespeare said "to be, or not to be."

[ March 30, 2005, 03:08 PM: Message edited by: Disraeli Gears ]

DELICIOUS POISON · 03-31-2005, 03:22 AM

Well. I didn't expect anyone else to have the desire to explain that away. I just don't manage to care enough when it comes to "omg wittay" english teachers, anyway..

[sage] · 03-31-2005, 04:53 PM

No I haven't read where I came from. I sort of figured that "God is dead" meant something along those lines. It was god's supposed response that Nietzche is dead that's funny, not the quote itself.

And if its in something he wrote, than yes, he did technically say it.

[ March 31, 2005, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: Marth ]

DELICIOUS POISON · 03-31-2005, 05:30 PM

You're not grasping. Nietzsche's intent was that the moral structure of God in society had been undermined. That ritual persisted without purpose, in that modern society crossed its own religious restrictions. Trampling upon the concept of moral standards in the name of technology. "Nietzsche is dead" a comeback to an insult that was never there.. is just foolish. Nietzsche(or rather, a written character in a piece of fiction intended to make social statement) did not ever attempt to claim that the moral indignation was no longer possible in the name of God. Simply that it did not exist by the same means. He nearly asserted that God was, in modern culture, misrepresented and ignored. This would make God, or by this chance the original author of such words, look foolish and ignorant.

Sidenote: I still love the quote, because it stinks of the modern pseudo-intellectual "prowess" of your everyday would-be philosopher.
...The sort of thing that speaks "The work of a scholar should be left to the scholarly"

[ March 31, 2005, 04:41 PM: Message edited by: Deus Ex Machina ]

Swordmaster Link · 04-03-2005, 03:30 AM

Quote:

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

***Heroine of the Dragon*** · 04-04-2005, 12:31 AM

Nice quote, SML!!

Quote:

Sometimes we put up walls, not to block people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

-Unknown.

Just the one today since it's so profound.

OcarinaMan · 04-04-2005, 12:46 AM

Quote:

It is difficult to make a TV documentary that is probing and incisive when every 12 minutes you are interrupted by 12 rabbits singing about toilet paper.

~Rod Serling (not verbatim)

***Saria Dragon of the Rain Wilds*** · 04-07-2005, 01:35 AM

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I have a new life goal: get drunk enough to see the devil, take a few good pictures, sell them on eBay, become rich.

Sounds like a plan, don'tcha think?

Quote:

Think about a woman. Doesn’t know you’re thinking about her. Doesn’t care you’re thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

***Heroine of the Dragon*** · 04-26-2005, 08:36 PM

Quote:

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

Quote:

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Quote:

The best way to change your belief system is to change the truth about you. What you actually *do* is more important than what you say you'll do.

- Steve Chandler 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself

***Saria Dragon of the Rain Wilds*** · 04-27-2005, 01:37 AM

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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

***Heroine of the Dragon*** · 04-27-2005, 10:28 PM

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"No one in his right mind would put up with the corruption and cruelty of those in power, if he believed this were the only world he would experience. So they promise him a mythical life hereafter, where the wrongs of this life will be compensated. Only a fool would believe that, which shows how many fools there are."

The Hierophant from Tarot by Piers Anthony.

***Ace Mercury*** · 04-28-2005, 07:20 AM

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Super-Duper-Mega-Bummer!
- Selphie Tilmitt

DELICIOUS POISON · 04-30-2005, 01:08 AM

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...and please be aware, that while it is a live broadcast; it may arrive today, tommorrow, or yesterday.

- serial experiments: lain

"Your original name was Rick.
But you were strong as a bull at 7 or 8 so I called you Ricky."

DELICIOUS POISON · 04-30-2005, 10:38 PM

Quote:

whoa.. did everything just taste purple for a second?

-futurama

**Prince Toad** · 04-30-2005, 11:19 PM

^On that note...

Quote:

Leila... nothing's wrong with anything.

--Fry, Futurama

03-31-2005, 03:22 AM	#322
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03-31-2005, 04:53 PM	#323
[sage] Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Florida Gender: Posts: 18,066 Thanks: 1 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts Points: 33,764.48 Bank: 597.55 Total Points: 34,362.03 Donate	No I haven't read where I came from. I sort of figured that "God is dead" meant something along those lines. It was god's supposed response that Nietzche is dead that's funny, not the quote itself. And if its in something he wrote, than yes, he did technically say it. [ March 31, 2005, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: Marth ]

03-31-2005, 05:30 PM	#324
DELICIOUS POISON Retro Nintendo Supermod Art & Literature Mod Metroid Mod Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 16,563 Thanks: 554 Thanked 1,590 Times in 784 Posts Points: 6,653.69 Bank: 3,462,620.43 Total Points: 3,469,274.12 Donate	You're not grasping. Nietzsche's intent was that the moral structure of God in society had been undermined. That ritual persisted without purpose, in that modern society crossed its own religious restrictions. Trampling upon the concept of moral standards in the name of technology. "Nietzsche is dead" a comeback to an insult that was never there.. is just foolish. Nietzsche(or rather, a written character in a piece of fiction intended to make social statement) did not ever attempt to claim that the moral indignation was no longer possible in the name of God. Simply that it did not exist by the same means. He nearly asserted that God was, in modern culture, misrepresented and ignored. This would make God, or by this chance the original author of such words, look foolish and ignorant. Sidenote: I still love the quote, because it stinks of the modern pseudo-intellectual "prowess" of your everyday would-be philosopher. ...The sort of thing that speaks "The work of a scholar should be left to the scholarly" [ March 31, 2005, 04:41 PM: Message edited by: Deus Ex Machina ]

04-30-2005, 11:52 PM	#336
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