Just some quotes I thought were cool...
"A satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairys wing." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"A longing to return to the realm of the soul." - Jostein Gaarder, Sophies World
"Its bad enough that you sell your waking life for minimum wage, but now they get your dreams for free." - Waking Life
"Death is only the beginning" - The Mummy
"Shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is" - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"Orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think. orthodoxy is unconsciousness." - George Orwell, 1984
"Some animals are more equal than others." - George Orwell, Animal Farm.
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted all else follows." - George Orwell, 1984
"It eluded us then, but thats no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further... And one fine morning -" - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth" - Goethe
"Death does not concern us because as long a we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist." - Epicurus
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more; it is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Cogito, ergo sum" - Descartes (Means "I think, therefore I am.)
"True enlightenment is to man
Like sunlight is to the soul." - N.F.S. Grundtvig
"If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it." - Jostein Gaarder, Sophies World
"Act only on that maxim through with you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." - Kant
"Act in such a way that you never treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end." - Kant
"Only when we follow our 'practical reason' - which enables us to make moral choices - do we excercise our free will, because when we conform to moral law, it is we who make the law we are conforming to." - Jostein Gaarder, Sophies World
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then? - Coleridge
"Tired of the eternal efforts to fight our way through raw matter , we chose another way and sought to embrace the infinate. We went inside ourselves and created a new world.." - Henrik Steffans
"So the world spirit first meets itself in philosophy. You could say, perhaps, that philosophy is the mirror of the world spirit." - Jostein Gaarder, Sophies World
"If an overgrown child draws something on apiece of paper, you can't ask the piece of paper what the drawing is supposed to represent." - Jostein Gaarder, Sophies World
"Credo quia absurdum" - Jostein Gaarder, Sophies World (means "I believe because it is irrational.")
"The important thing is not what you may think is presicely right or wrong. What matters is that you chose to have an opinion at all on what is right or wrong." - Jostein Gaarder, Sophies World
"You'd better hurry up and cut the umbilical cord to your mortal progenitor. We no longer need their world. We belong to the invisible people." - Jostein Gaarder, Sophies World
"But she who wins the lot of life must also draw the lot of death, since the lot of life is death."
"The universe is a happening. The universe is an explosion." - Jostein Gaarder, Sophies World
"We too are stardust." - Jostein Gaarder, Sophies World
"When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way back to ourselves." - Jostein Gaarder, Sophies World
"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And heaven in a wild flower,
To hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour." - William Blake
"it is simply the agreed rules that make mathematical statements true or false; and that these agreed rules might be changed." - John Tyerman Williams
"Let my epitaph be: 'Here lies one whose name was writ on water'" - John Keats
"...it was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world... on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves." - Anne Rice, Interview With The Vampire
... the phiosophical search for truth was like looking in a darkened room for a black cat, which was probably not there" - F. H. Bradley
"To be is to be percieved or to percieve." - Berkeley
