Submissions
These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.
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tiny.ag/bdkbo7gh · submitted 2003
I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folk are like leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.
tiny.ag/8yyl2nhj · submitted 2003
No nation on earth ever taxed itself into prosperity.
tiny.ag/ws7urlzt · submitted 2003
An eye for an eye and the world will go blind? Aye, maybe. But let the eye-gouger go without accounting long enough... and the world goes blind anyway.
tiny.ag/kbrj0uwl · submitted 2003
Perfection would have a devestating effect on the economy.
tiny.ag/xu2c4zus · submitted 2003
How many legs does a cat have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling the tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
tiny.ag/z08u3som · submitted 2003
It would not be hard to prove with sufficient repitition that a square is in fact a circle. What after all are a square and a circle? They are mere words and words can be moulded to hide ideas in disguise.
Joseph Paul Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda
tiny.ag/txb0rpay · submitted 2003
Every new technology medium seems to enjoy a delicious moment, between being born as a vehicle for human creativity controlled by no one, into a Pigopolistic advertising channel, controlled by very few.
Andrew Orlowski, Taken from an article in The Register
tiny.ag/5zb6wnhb · submitted 2003
Bastard Operators don't just win. Anyone can win. Bastard Operators win and totally demoralize. That's real winning.
Simon Travaglia, From the "Bastard Operator from Hell"
tiny.ag/jckvo3ap · submitted 2003
If I ever happen to fall... I hope its not in shit.
tiny.ag/wfmca5r9 · submitted 2003
Put a man behind a mask and you will get the truth from him.
tiny.ag/xop2reyv · submitted 2003
Profits due to an increasing price level are only fictitious. If they are consumed, capital is consumed.
Fritz Machlup, Review of Economic Statistics, 1935
tiny.ag/1joqz7hj · submitted 2003
"To understand the behavior of large organizations, imagine that it is secretly controlled by a cabal dedicated to its destruction."
tiny.ag/oollcfjs · submitted 2003
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Adam "Finley" King, Battle of Wits [WWII cryptanalysis]
tiny.ag/hrhuscvd · submitted 2003
Reflex knowledge. Just like the mirror reflects itself through the reflected object, so Man knows himself through the object known.
Heroic furore. The six senses without reason are “non-sense”, reason without them a castle in the air.
Beyond. Often we attribute to the words of a speaker meanings that go ‘beyond’ the significance given them by the speaker himself.
Involution. On the circumference of a circle: he who believes he is going forward is going backward instead.
Decadence. Whatever survives its death becomes a rotting receptacle of flies and disease.
Sentimental interpretations. Quite often we consider “altruism” what could very well be the effect of perfect egotism.
ken, http://www.geocities.com/psychosophy_net
tiny.ag/oz1boywp · submitted 2003
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
tiny.ag/tnpo4slg · submitted 2003
Â’T is better to have loved and lost
Than
never to have loved at all.
Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam. xxvii. Stanza 4
tiny.ag/b78xhmfq · submitted 2003
Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all.
Arthur Hugh Clough, From Peshiera
tiny.ag/merw5dbf · submitted 2003
It was better to have boomed and busted than never to have boomed at all.
Alan Greenspan, Fed Chairman
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