Love of Quotes?

[RubberDucky451]

Am i insane or do the majority of the members on this forum have quotes for their signatures? I certainty don't notice a lot of quotes in other forums I've visited. Is this an INTP thing or just an intellectual thing?

Speaking of signatures i can never get my .png in my siggy to display. I've tried BB code and HTML

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

I've seen quotes used as signatures elsewhere so I don't think it's an INTP thing. I only last week put one in mine and I've been here nearly a year. It's one of those things that just catches on I think. One person does it and others think it's a good model to follow.

 

[Agent Intellect]

People use quotes as short, clever ways of expressing a thought that someone else has summed up more cleverly and concisely then they could. I for one like putting reading material in my signature - something that will make people have to think for themselves then tell them what I believe they should be thinking.

 

[RubberDucky451]

People use quotes as short, clever ways of expressing a thought that someone else has summed up more cleverly and concisely then they could. I for one like putting reading material in my signature - something that will make people have to think for themselves then tell them what I believe they should be thinking.

I read the article about conformity and really enjoyed it

 

[PollyIsAQueen]

I despise the current culture of bite-size quoting. I see it as a degeneration of man's purity and honor, in that it simultaneously implies that his particular worldview is validated by the words of some supposed authority and enforces the practice of processing information independent of the specific cultural and individual context from which it originated.
People do not talk in quotes. That which is nowadays ''quoted'' invariably originates in a context which differs significantly from the context in which it is so degenerately used, and the meanings attributed to a bite-size ''quote'' by readers from that modern context is usually incompatible with the type of understanding that *grows* from an deep intellectual relationship with, and analysis of, the length and breadth of an individual's work, art, thoughts, and history.

88

 

[Claverhouse]

88

Wolfie would be 120 this year. A solemn thought.

People still quote him extensively.



Claverhouse

 

[Agent Intellect]

Wolfie would be 120 this year. A solemn thought.

People still quote him extensively.



Claverhouse

Wolfie? I thought 88 meant "HH" for Heil Hitler.

 

[Anthile]

Adolf=Adeliger Wolf="noble wolf"

 

[Agent Intellect]

Adolf=Adeliger Wolf="noble wolf"

Ah I see, I've never heard that before.

 

[Morel Panic]

Quotes are only as deep as meaningful as the reader makes them out to be. For example, "Be Yourself" is arguably one of the most important pieces of advice one can be given, but almost no one who gives it really thinks about or acts on it's implications.

To reply to the topic of quoting with a quote :

Thoreau said,

"the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."​

That's one of those dumb cocktail quotations that will strike fear in your heart as you get older.

I like the quote within the quote as well as the quote (from a Bill Watterson speech).

 

[Oblivious]

I on the other hand, will contend that the very concept of original speech is an illusion.

 

[Decaf]

I think INTPs like quotes because we don't tie people to ideas intuitively. Ideas exist in and of themselves regardless of who utters them. When we read a quote its really not that different from when we say what's on the top of our heads, but the quote exists generally because it was said in such a concise or emotionally powerful way that people felt it deserved to be repeated.

I've heard the argument that using quotes shows a lack of individual thought, but I don't buy it. Oblivious is right. There's nothing new under the sun and pretending that what you say has never been said before (and probably better) is arrogant. All arguments are made of up everything that has happened in the world before that point, so why must we reinvent the wheel when any subject we discuss aside from the origin of the universe inherently demands that we accept the wheel has already been invented?

Quoting can be indicative of intellectual bankruptcy or a healthy degree of humility. Determining which depends on how it is used.

 

[Oblivious]

I shall call it Conservation of Creativity.

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

check the sig