What's your favorite profound quote?

"Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing."

Dalinar Kholin

I am typically this when someone accuses me of being a hypocrite. Either way, I certainly do tolerate it though, in fact I have a system for it.
Whoa I've never thought this thought. Thank you for sharing.
Life before death, Radiant.

I'm a simple man:

“What day is it?” asked Pooh.

“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.

“My favorite day,” said Pooh.

- Based pooh

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France

The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

From the Magic: The Gathering card "Blood of the Martyr"

Those who will not follow are doomed to lead.
From the Magic: The Gathering card "Anarchist"

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

When working on an office, it's great and all that you have "the power of accurate observation" but god our Debbie downer is insufferable.
That's a pretty accurate way of looking at things.

This too shall pass.

No matter how good or bad your life is, there will ways be change.

That works both ways though. Even the fable where the quote originated had that as a takeaway.
- I'm paraphrasing but it was something along the lines of
  'Something that will make me sad when I am happy and happy when I am sad'

“The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.”

― Abraham Lincoln 1864

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."

H.G. Wells

“1 in a million chances happen 9 times out of 10”
— Terry Pratchett

- He's also easy to read. Too often I see a comment with this much text and lose interest instantly, but I didn't even notice that this comment doesn't even fit on my screen until I started typing this

David Foster Wallace: You'll stop worrying* what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.

It might 'caring' rather than 'worrying', I'm not sure, and can't be bothered finding the book to check it.

It's also possible that DFW didn't coin this phrase.

”A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts.” Alan Watts

I think it’s just a reminder of the pointlessness of overthinking. I find it poignant because I spend a lot of time lost in rumination, myself

"Change and comfort rarely come together"

Unattributed quote from a manager I work with

Change your perspective... and the reality changes!

That's what a daycare npc told me in Pokemon Black. Although I haven't really found much use for the quote, it has stuck with me for long.

"To know which questions are unanswerable, and to not answer them: this is the skill that is most needful in times of stress and darkness."

Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

Or, if you like it more pithy: "The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than it is in theory."

What is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?

-Paarthurnax

(- also Catholicism)

Comparison is the thief of happiness.

I have many favorites, but this comes to mind often.

Fear shrinks the brain.

Is another good one.

Fear is the mind-killer
- I like that. Also, “if they want you to be afraid, they don’t want you to think.”
No wonder psychiatrists are called shrinks.
Funny. "Fear keeps you alive" is one I use fairly often.
- lol also true! I think of mine more in the context of when I see things from the media. If they seem to be instilling fear (omg immigrants are coming, they’re scary), it’s because they don’t want you to think critically.

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

H. H. Dalai Lama

Off the top of my head, I'm going to go with Hanlon's razor: "Don't attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity"

Although, it's somewhat complicated by the existence of willful or lazy ignorance.

Better to piss in the sink than sink in the piss

Haha but really my favorite quote is
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Really helps me feel better about the fact that I'm a 28 year old man who exclusively watches anime
- CS Lewis?

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius

You practising stoicism?
- Sort of.
  More it's just the way I've pretty much always been. Before I was even really aware of it, I apparently figured out that I couldn't control the outside world but I could control how I reacted to it, so that was what I focused on. One could sort of say that I did it simply because it made sense to me, but even that makes it sound more conscious than it was. It's more that it just never occurred to me to do things any other way.
  It was only much later that I discovered that there was a philosophy called "stoicism" that advocated that.

I am better off than he is – for he knows nothing, and thinks he knows. I neither know nor think I know.

Socrates

Unfortunately, a lot of smart people still have this problem. I'd say I'm pretty damn well rounded and all that's taught me is how easy it is to find a subject that I don't know that's still very important. Meanwhile, you can hardly throw a rock without finding an engineer that thinks he should rule the world.
- To be fair to the engineers it's not hard to do a better job then the people paid to be make our lives miserable for the profit of a few.

Life is a comedy to those who think, but a tragedy to those who feel.

Horace Walpole

"The world is cruel but you don’t have to be"

Don't let quotes tell you what to think.

Gnorv
- Wayne Gretzky

"“That’s not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives.” IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN’T LIVE AT ALL."

From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.

“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”

-Hunter S. Thompson

“Anything worth doing, is worth doing more of.”
-also Hunter S. Thompson, probably

I really like that one, thanks for sharing.

Choosing proprietary tools and services for your free software project ultimately sends a message to downstream developers and users of your project that freedom of all users—developers included—is not a priority.

— Matt Lee, https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/opinion-github-vs-gitlab

On a post about GitHub Vs Gitlab - lol.
https://forgejo.org/
- Quote is still relevant. GitLab wouldn’t be my first choice but open core is better than fully proprietary. The work on Ayulla is a bit more interesting at the moment for the Git space, but I would prefer something atop Darcs or Pijul to Git.

From Frank Herbert’s Dune

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Though there are questions as to its veracity, "a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad". As an artist, this is the reason I'll never rush things and spend ample time on my art.

If they gave Jerry Falwell's corpse an enema, they could bury him in a matchbox.

Christopher Hitchens

Soulmates are not found. They're made.

If you fall asleep with an itchy butt you’ll wake up with a smelly finger.

Confucius was wise.

Don't do what you think you have to do... only do what you absolutely must do

"LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?"

From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.

A new one I heard from Nightcrawler, he probably quoted someone else...

"Love is best measured by the things we forgive. "

We have not created the heavens and the earth and everything in between except for a purpose. And the Hour is certain to come, so forgive graciously.

15:85 Quran

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

From The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.

We growing wiser, or are we just growing tall?

Damian Marley

"There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived." —Anomander Rake

From Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen.

“Anything that detracts from enjoying yourself is to be avoided.”

“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” Harry S. Truman

I lost the game

Be not afraid.

"Love is just a word" haha just kidding, but it's the first one that came to mind. I don't think I actually have a fav

"Have a good time, all the time."

--- Viv Savage, keyboardist for Spinal Tap

i have 2

im going to kill sam, im going to kill him dead

BAD MCGEE

Anything Einstein said I have a bias towards.

Gnothi Sauton

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it"

And at the end:

"No one keeps death in view, no one refrains from far-reaching hopes; some men, indeed, even arrange for things that lie beyond life—huge masses of tombs and dedications of public works and gifts for their funeral-pyres and ostentatious funerals. But, in very truth, the funerals of such men ought to be conducted by the light of torches and wax tapers, as though they had lived but the tiniest span." [As if a child had died]

Seneca, On the Shortness of Life