Elrond
But it seems to me now clear which is the road that we must take. The westward road seems easiest. Therefore it must be shunned. It will be watched. Too often the Elves have fled that way. Now at this last we must take a hard road, a road unforeseen. There lies our hope, if hope it be. To walk into peril - to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire.
Sr. Burrito
- Keeping it mysterious
If you admire something, you want to learn more about it. The problem is that you won't feel the same admiration if you do so. As you understand more about it, the mysteriousness gradually wears out; what has been initially exciting will become nothing remarkable in the end. I don't want to sound like a champion of ignorance, but some things that we love may be better kept unclear than thoroughly scrutinized.
Sr. Burrito
- (from my notes to self)
Every human being has goodness in them. Even if the person is evil to the maximum, one corner, one tiny part will remain pure and gold. And that's human nature. Respect everyone. Be generous. Someone might appear to be bad for the moment; but might appear to be angelic for other moments. Do you know someone like this? This might be how you appear to other people as well.
Sr. Burrito
- Don't Give Up, Keep It Up
There are days you bungle all the way through the quotes; I know, it really sucks. But there are also days you don't miss a single letter; and it feels good! Some days you don't get to type as fast as you usually do; I feel you, it's frustrating. But some other days you type faster than you usually do; and it feels like flying, doesn't it? Happiness only exists as a counterpart of sadness. Don't give up, keep it up. Consistency is what makes your typing strong.
Plato
- Meno
How will you look for it, Socrates, when you do not know at all what it is? How will you aim to search for something you do not know at all? If you should meet with it, how will you know that this is the thing that you did not know?
Jean-Paul Sartre
- Existence Precedes Essence
What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he himself thereby become a monster... and when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
