HAMLET
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
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"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
- unknown
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"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill
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"Facts are the enemy of truth."
- Don Quixote
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"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley
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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot
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"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes
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"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. "
- Socrates
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"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. "
- Socrates
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. "
- Aristotle
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"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. "
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous
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For reason, in this sense, is nothing but Reckoning (that is, Adding and Subtraction) of the Consequences of generall names agreed upon, for the marking and signifying of our thoughts; I say marking them, when we reckon by our selves; and signifying, when we demonstrate, or approve our reckonings to other men.
-Thomas Hobbes
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In Deliberation, the last Appetite, or Aversion, immediately adhaering to the action, or to the omission therof, is that wee call the Will.
-Thomas Hobbes
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