When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
- C. S. Lewis
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I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom’s realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer’s Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.
- Conan of Cimmeria, Queen of the Black Coast, Robert E. Howard
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Player: You have something we want… a Finger of Sartek.
Minotaur chief: All you will get from us is a cold axeblade between your eyes!
Player: I didn’t think you would give it up without a fight.
Minotaur chief: We are Minotaurs. We do NOTHING without a fight!
– Warlords Battlecry III
Splitting matter and ideas
Published by 1 year, 2 months ago in Books, Novelists and Philosophers. 0 CommentsI accepted their insults, their frauds, their extortions. I thought I could afford to ignore them — all those impotent mystics who prattle about their souls and are unable to build a roof over their heads. I thought that the world was mine, and that those jabbering incompetents were no threat to my strength. I could not understand why I kept losing every battle. I did not know that the force unleashed against me was my own. While I was busy conquering matter, I had surrendered to them the realm of the mind, of thought, of principle, of laws, of values, of morality.
- Hank Rearden, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Sam: What do you think of the White House, Max?
Max: There aren’t nearly as many roller coasters as you’ve led me to believe, Sam.
- Sam & Max: Abe Lincoln Must Die
Filled to the brim with darkness deeper than night, with bitterness hotter than the depths of hell - that’s coffee.
- Godot, Gyakuten Saiban 3
Insult not the White Wizard, for I have many powers. Here, pick a card. Any card.
- Goodgulf Grayteeth, Bored of the Rings, Harvard Lampoon
In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed”? Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.”
- Carl Sagan
Sam: Max almost lost a finger in a fan like that once.
Max: Yeah, but it wasn’t my own finger.
- Sam & Max (new series)
Cherryl Brooks: There’s something I want you to know, so that there won’t be any pretending about it. I’m not going to put on the sweet relative act. I know what you’ve done to Jim and how you’ve made him miserable all his life. I’m going to protect him against you. I’ll put you in your place. I’m Mrs. Taggart. I’m the woman in this family now.
Dagny Taggart: That’s quite all right. I’m the man.
- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I drink to make other people interesting.
- Groucho Marx
“Welcome to Lornadoon,” said Lavalier, rising slowly to her feet, and it seemed to the company that she was as fair as a young sapling or scrub oak. She had magnificent chestnut hair, and when she shook her head, handfuls of magnificent chestnuts dropped to the floor like rain. Frito toyed with the Ring and wondered at her great beauty.
“I see, Frito,” she said, “that as you toy with the Ring, you wonder at my great beauty.”
- Bored of the Rings, Harvard Lampoon
Don’t smoke, kids. Unless you’re on fire. Then it’s only natural.
- Max, Sam & Max: The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball
My job? Taking care of crazies like you. Making sure you don’t go and hurt yourselves with your deviant powers. And cookies, I make cookies.
- Lonk the Sane, Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn
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