Quotes
From printed books I've read, and I thought enlightening.
Not all lies are untrue. Here, the lie isn't in what he's telling
you, but in what he's not.
--F. Almanac 2006
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is
not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
--Aurelius
Augustinus 397 AD
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm.
--W. Churchill
that all servitude is voluntary and the slave is more despicable than
the tyrant is hateful.
--G.A. Borgese
By themselves, rulers cannot collect taxes, enforce repressive
laws and regulations, keep trains running on time, prepare
national budgets, direct traffic, manage ports, print money,
repair roads, keep markets supplied with food, make steel, build
rockets, train the police and army, issue postage stamps or even
milk a cow. People provide these services to the ruler through a
variety of organizations and institutions. If people would stop
providing these skills, the ruler could not rule.
--Dr.Gene
Sharp
Violence is the last refuge of the weak.
--Jorge Luis Borges
Everything that is harmoniously constituted is knit together out
of opposites and, of course, out of real things; for neither can
non-existent things be set in harmony, nor can things that exist,
but are like one another, nor yet things that are different, but
have no relation one to another. It remains, accordingly, that
those things out of which a harmony is made are both real,
different, and things with some relation to one another
--Nicomachus
History reveals the Church and the State as a pair of indispensable
Molochs. They protect their worshiping subjects, only to enslave and
destroy them. The relations between social organizations and the
individuals who live under them is symbolically expressed by the word
"shepherd," as applied to the priests and ruler, who like to think of
themselves as G-d's earthly representatives, and even to G-d himself
[...] We never pause to relfect that a shepherd is "not in business
for his health," still less for the health of his sheep. If he takes
good care of the animals, it is in order that he may rob them of their
wool and milk, castrate their male offspring and finally cut their
throats and convert them into mutton.
--A. L. H.
the human brain receives several billion signals a minute. your
brain is being flooded with millions of coded messages from all
parts of your body every second. most of us most of the time are
completely blocked from awareness of the information which is
flooding into our nervous system. often people during lsd sessions
get trapped where their consciousness floats into one of these
areas of the nervous system, to be lost there because you don't
recognize it, and is suffered a tremendous anguish, or experience
incredible new ecstasies as you whirl through this center, to
slowly dissolve and go back down the history of your own nervous
system, and experience the ecstasy of the root beginnings. but the
terror is that you'll never get back, or that you'll slowly spiral
down some central sewer in the middle of this universe, bloop,
that'll be the end of you, at that point you'll be grabbing,
struggling, to pull out of this, and the advice is, recognize this
and float with it.
--Timothy Leary (BA from UA in Psychology;
MA from WSU in Psychology; PhD from UC in Psychology)
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most
precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would
be generated by accident, is zero.
--Ilya Prigogine
(Chemist-Physicist) Recipient of two Nobel Prizes in chemistry
Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the
fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the
growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us
today.
--David Bohm
When we kill our brother, we kill ourselves.
--Carl Sagan
G-d has not called me to be successful; He has called me to be
faithful.
--Mother Teresa
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers.
--Francois Fenelon
Don't be afraid to expose your own flaws and examine yourself,
because what can defile a man can deliver a man.
--Paraphrased
Before I was your little son, before I was your baby, your
dependent, I was a free spirit in the next stage of life. I walked
in the cosmos not imprisoned by a body of flesh, but free in a
body of light, I knew all things, there were no questions only
answers, no weaknesses only strength, I was light, I was truth, I
was a spiritual being, I was a g-d... but you had to fock! and
bring my arse down here!
--Sam Kinison
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who
is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the
matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the
collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are
acceptable.
--Terence McKenna
I had a lot of friends who were sent to mental hospitals instead
of universities. Most people would think that's too bad but I
think they came out with more cylinders than many who went to
university.
--Dr.Richard Alpert; Stanford graduate, Harvard
professor, researcher in human consciousness
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and
the world remains and is immortal.
--Albert Pine
For example, unlike humans, all natural meat-eaters manufacture
their own vitamin C, whereas we need to consume vitamin C in
fruits and vegetables. True carnivores perspire through their
tongues rather than through their skin. Natural meat-eaters have
sharp, pointy front teeth, sharp and jagged molars, and a tooth-
bone density that's many times greater than that of humans, which
enables them to crunch through the bones of their prey. Carnivores
have no digestive enzymes in their saliva at all, and their
digestive acids are many times more acidic than those of humans,
so the bacteria from rotting flesh won't kill them. Natural
meat-eaters have jaws that move only vertically, instead of in a
grinding motion as ours do, and they don't chew food their they
just rip and swallow. Carnivores have claws to rip their prey
apart instead of sensitive fingers for plucking. They have
intestinal tracts that are only three times their body length,
which enables them to eject rotting flesh quickly. No matter how
much saturated fat and cholesterol they consume, natural
meat-eaters never develop atherosclerosis, the heart disease that
consistently kills more human beings in the industrialized world
than any other cause of death.
--Bruce Friedrich
In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of
my room; I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone
from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my
Lord, and seeking her I have come to thy door. I stand under the
golden canopy of thine evening sky and I lift my eager eyes to thy
face. I have come to the brink of eternity from which nothing can
vanish--no hope, no happiness, no vision of a face seen through
tears. Oh, dip my emptied life into the ocean, plunge it into the
deepest fullness. Let me for once feel that lost sweet touch in
the allness of the universe.
--Tagore, from Gitanjali,
LXXXVII.
People that want to control [...] anything that gives the power
to change reality to the individual, to every inclusive
individual, well you (statists) can't have that happening.
--Timothy Leary
The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking
we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the
same level as the level we created them at.
--Albert Einstein
I don't want anything. I exist only to serve others.
--Neem
Karoli Baba.
O journeyer, deaf in the mould, insane with violent travel &
death: consider me in my cast, your first son. Would you were I by
now another one, witted, legged? I see you before me plain (I am
skilled: I hear, I see)
--John Berryman
Being a man or being a woman has nothing to do with your
genitalia; it has to do with what's right here in your heart, and
what's in your mind.
--Robert Eads
In other words, a peaceful man is the first criterion if you want
to have a peaceful universe. You start with the universe you've
got, which is your own being; and if you're angry, you can't be
angry about peace because all you're creating is more anger in the
world, rather than more peace. So whatever you're going to do,
you've got to do it peacefully... you've got to do it with peace
in your heart if it has anything to do with peace.
--Ram Dass
You must be the change you wish to see.
--Mahatma Gandhi
The dust of the universities is draped like a death veil over the
truth
--Edgar Froese
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on
the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the
process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of
wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom
by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever
conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and
discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate
into physical violence.
--MLK
The natural impulse of the primitive man to strike back, to
avenge a wrong, is out of date.
--Red Emma
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up
to them.
--Alfred Adler
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is
found in the effect was already in the cause.
--Henri Bergson
Everyone has their point of view and everyones' point of view is
absolutely valid, you know, for them, a monarch; don't get caught
in your point of view or you will impale yourself on your point of
view.
--Timothy Leary
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The
proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a
world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
--Karl Marx
There are many causes for which I am prepared to die for, but
there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
--Gandhi
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the
mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll
always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer
-- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to
seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange
plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater
than the need for an answer.
--Ken Kesey
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely
energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one
consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such
thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination
of ourselves.
--Bill Hicks
In other words, all of us are more the same than we are
different. That we give overwhelming attention to our perceived
differences gives rise to much of the human drama.
--Ingo
Swann
