The great XIX century portuguese writer Eça de Queirós:
"Politicians and diapers need to be changed often and for the same reason."

Quote:It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god

Robert Green Ingersoll

(May 14, 2013 at 7:15 pm)Rayaan Wrote:

Do you have a citation for this, Rayaan. To the best of my knowledge it doesn't occur in the Tao Te Ching. (I've read the Tao Te Ching more times than I can count and it doesn't ring any bells. Searching a favorite translation on the words past, present, and future doesn't yield anything relevant either.) Are you sure this is a quote of Lao Tzu?

Quote:
"Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear, and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet, and what unsavory; some we discriminate by habit, and some we perceive by their utility. By this we distinguish objects of relish and disrelish, according to the seasons; and the same things do not always please us. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us, some by night, and some by day, and dreams and untimely wanderings, and cares that are not suitable, and ignorance of present circumstances, desuetude, and unskilfulness. All these things we endure from the brain..."

— On The Sacred Disease, Hippocratic Corpus, attribution uncertain, 400 BCE

(May 14, 2013 at 7:25 pm)apophenia Wrote: Are you sure this is a quote of Lao Tzu?

I am not sure, but I saw that in a different forum and I also googled the quote and then I found many sites which show that it was a quote of Lao Tzu.

https://www.google.com/#output=search&sc...80&bih=892

https://www.google.com/search?q=if+you+a...4APymoGgDg