What are your favorite quote/s? mine would have to be-
“Chuang-Tzu once dreamed he was a butterfly. When he awoke, he no longer knew if he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man, or a man who had dreamed he was a butterfly.” - Chuang-Tzu
“A spoon of salt in water renders it undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake goes unnoticed.” - Buddha
“Holding on to anger is like holding onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone, you are the only one who gets burnt.” - Buddha
“Stop harassing me you madman or I’ll call the police!” Haha…
On the heavier side: “Yesterday runs after me, tomorrow runs over me, but today runs WITH me.”
there’s dozens by Nietzsche that i like but i won’t list them here.
on the top of my head (quite obscure ones might i add);
and my sigs
Great avatar Crafedog. I’m Re-reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra for about the 5th time. I get something new out of it (or possibly discover something new in myself) everytime i read it. It is definitely an all-time classic from which comes, “He who cannot obey himself will be commanded”. R.J. Hollingdale pg 137
“A free life still remains for great souls. Truly, he who possesses little is so much the less possessed: praised be a moderate poverty!” (book 1, Of the New Idol)
“for the mob could one day become master, and all time be drowned in shallow waters.” (book 3, Of Old and New Law Tables 11)
“United with his fellow-men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love. The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instil faith in hours of despair. Let us not weigh in grudging scales their merits and demerits, but let us think only of their need, of the sorrows, the difficulties, perhaps the blindnesses, that make the misery of their lives; let us remember that they are fellow-sufferers in the same darkness, actors in the same tragedy with ourselves.”
A bit morbid, but I like imaginery provoked in his quote. I would quote this in my signature but I think it is too lengthy.
I have dozens, but here are a few of my very favorites:
“The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.” - Albert Camus
“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” - Voltaire
“Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“He who is not contented with what he has, will not be contented with what he doesn’t have.” - Socrates
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate; to have it make some difference that you have lived, and lived well.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man who has a why to live for, can bear almost any how.” - Victor Frankl
“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” -Hermann Goering, Hitler’s second-in-command
“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose”. --Jim Elliot
“A crimminal is rarely equal to his deeds; he slanders them and tries to make then less.” (my rough paraphrasing of a quote from Nietzsches’ Beyond Good and Evil. I can’t remember precisely how it goes)
“…Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of
doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
Philosophy does not result in ‘philosophical propositions’, but rather in the clarification of
propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is
to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries…” Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico Philosophicus; Line 4.112) 
“When a true genius appears in the world, you will know him by this sign, that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.” - Jonathan Swift
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on ‘I am not too sure.’” -H.L. Mencken
“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.” -Thomas Paine
“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.” -H.L. Mencken
“Political labels - communist, conservative, democrat, fascist, monarchist, republican, liberal, etc - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled, and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists, acting from the highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.” -Robert A. Heinlein
“The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.” -Emma Goldman
And of course:
“well I say he does have to shoot me now, so shoot me now!” -Daffy to Bugs before being shot by Elmer…
“she is unsinkable” -Captain of the Titanic…
“I can’t feel nothing in my leg!” -Richard Prior to Gene Wilder in Stir Crazy…
-Imp
This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.
–Tom Daschle, last week, when President Bush, struck Iraq
We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that . . . we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.
–Tom Daschle, in 1998, when President Clinton, struck Iraq
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
–Albert Einstein
This war will not be over by the next commercial break
–US spokeperson talking to reporters during the Gulf War
What’s the use of sending a $2 million missile into a $10 tent to hit a camel in the butt?
–George W. Bush
Just thought some of these were interesting
I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too will end, that peace and tranquility will return once more. In the meantime I must hold on to my ideals. Perhaps the day will come when I’ll be able to realize them!"
-Anne Frank
The definition of a writer… He is the scapegoat of Mankind. He makes it possible for men to enjoy sin without guilt, almost without guilt.
-Franz Kafka
Being invisible and without substance, a disembodied voice, as it were, what else could I do? What else but try to tell you what was really happening when your eyes were looking through? And it is this which frightens me:
Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
-Ralph Ellison
“But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but to justify his logic at all cost.” - Fyodo Dostoevsky
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Ben Franklin
“To recognize that you know when you do know and recognize that you do not know when you do not know: that is knowledge.” Confucius
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson
“This perpetual motion machine she made is a joke : It just keeps going faster and faster. Lisa, get in here! In this house, we obey the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!” - H. Simpson