heraclitus

[jimharri]

 

[calum down]

"nunc est bibendum!"

horace said that a long time ago.
he's known as horace to us english speakers.
his real name was quintus horatius flaccus.
monty python on a plate.

he fucked off to greece,
joined up with the epicurians and stoics in plato's academy.
suetonius wrote a book about him.
the real name of suetonius was gaius suetonius tranquillus.

you can check if you don't believe me.

 

[mancboy]

We came, we saw, we kicked its ass - bill murray, ghostbusters

 

[Bill Walker]

When the power of love overcomes the love of power,the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix,(1942-1970)

In other words.......never.

 

[calum down]

In other words.......never.

pax aeterna?

 

[RadcliffeRick]

it is reported in the bible thing by a bloke called john
that christ's last words were
"consummatum est"
though fuck knows why he'd be speaking latin.

it is reported in the old hebrew texts
(the manuscripts that the bible thing was somewhat based upon)
when some of his followers said "look, he has risen again"
mary magdalene said "you're not jesus, you are the gardener!" A very naughty boy.

 

[Bill Walker]

pax aeterna?

plus minusve

 

[calum down]

plus minusve

ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant.
"they create a desert and call it peace"

 

[calum down]

i can't be arsed typing it all out so i've cut+pasted it

jean-paul marat said this circa 1790...

“Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.”​

 

[hilts]

“no man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”

“time is a game played beautifully by children.”

“the only thing that is constant is change.”

“the soul is dyed the colour of its thoughts.
think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.
the content of your character is your choice.
day by day, what you do is who you become.
your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.”

“to be even-minded is the greatest virtue.
wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.”

“how can you hide from what never goes away?”

“it is in changing that we find purpose.”

“abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.”

“the unlike is joined together,
and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.”

“all things are in flux"

“thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.”

Not great at pulling birds though