favorite qoutes
What are some of your favorite quotes?
Here's my favorite. "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all it's contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we would voyage far. The sciences, each straining in it's own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piercing together of disaccotiated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." - Introduction paragraph to "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft. 3
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"science is magic that works" -cats cradle, Vonnegut "As long as you have a window, life is exciting" "Life is a song. Love is the music" "When you've boxed yourself in, there is no sunshine." "Most of today's worries are like puddles: tomorrow they will have evaporated." "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott "Minds are like parachutes-- they only function when open." "I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which have never happened." - Mark Twain "Earth laughs in flowers." "Why not go out on a limb? Thats where all the fruit is." Too fun. Some are haikus some are from conversations, others are just me trying to be clever and witty :) “Deluded in some enlightened in some other aspects are we all.” ~ Atypican “Wisdom comes when you can admire without worshiping, and criticize without condemning.” ~ Atypican “There is no need to forgive someone who is not to blame.” ~ Atypican “Curiosity is wisdom's strongest ally.” ~Atypican “The doctrine that says 'hate this world' is an evil doctrine.” ~ Atypican “birds of a feather may not flock together but ought to write letters.” ~ Atypican “There's the curious and those who aim to silence curiosity.” ~ Atypican “Wisdom is about curiosity trust and doubt within and without.” ~ Atypican “Those who listen and agree every bit will grow very little.” ~ Atypican “Side by side should be seen the voices of those who truly disagree.” ~ Atypican “You can exercise without play but you can't play without exercise.” ~ Atypican “If you make an oath that you do not understand you won't be alone.” ~ Atypican “We make agreements though some state otherwise we obey all laws.” ~ Atypican “If you look for them you indeed find agreements hidden by language.” ~ Atypican “Don't call it knowledge strong belief indeed maybe corrupt and quite strong.” ~ Atypican “The humble can see that they are susceptible to as much folly.” ~ Atypican “The violent eye can never see a defeat without injury.” ~ Atypican “Wisdom can see through what on it's face appears to be hypocrisy.” ~ Atypican “In an argument unable to remain calm a good sign you're wrong” ~ Atypican “I am aware of myriad influences of which I am not.” ~ Atypican “If I had my way we would coerce our leaders to fight each other.” ~ Atypican “Non-violence is the philosophy people adopt once they become sufficiently acquainted with the realities of serious personal conflict.” ~ Atypican “In time of war, the non-violent know their enemy. While for the violent their enemy is mysterious and always changing.” ~ Atypican “True peace is not the absence of conflict: it is the prevalence of non-violent conflict.” ~ Atypican “The strongest get strong through many intense struggles with opposition.” ~ Atypican “The young they frolic the old have forgotten how and what about you?” ~ Atypican How can I be expected to support a secret system which I am not permitted to investigate the inner workings of? ~ Atypican “I thought to myself, how would my daily routine change if a nuclear detonation occurred in a major city? How big of a tragedy needs to happen before even (mind your own business) types like me began to do something? I started asking myself, how much do I really want my family to survive? What lengths would I go to? what lengths could I go to?” ~ Atypican “Why is it that we don't follow our own advice we're certain is good?” ~ Atypican “Do we not see who the real enemy is to the home of the brave?” ~ Atypican “Arrogance and wisdom are incompatible.” ~ Atypican “People with humility and dignity, who respect one another as peers, have richer interactions.” ~Atypican “I am not anti government, I am against secret governments that don't admit wrongdoing, and make no effort to insure that it's citizens are voluntary participants as opposed to compliant subjects.” ~ Atypican “We can accept the programming that educates us to believe that we face an enemy that is fundamentally different from us or we can set about the strenuous task of examining and compiling our own beliefs about the worldwide community.” ~ Atypican “We must mine our texts for pieces of great value can be extracted.” ~ Atypican “Bad beliefs are caused by misuse of trust.” ~Atypican “The most prolific problem with religion is worship.” ~ Atypican “Embarrassment and progress go hand in hand.” ~ Atypican “A higher order of contest is possible, urgently needed, indeed imminent, that is historically unprecedented.” ~ Atypican “Not everyone can bear the unfavorable treatment given to people who openly disagree with popular foolishness.” ~Atypican “It shows an unhealthy imbalance when you can go on and on about what you are against, but when asked you have not much to say about what you support.” ~ Atypican “Accuse first and you will have an edge, an advantage among the non-discerning.” ~ Atypican “There should be challenging rites of passage that people have to go through before they are considered adults or citizens.” ~ Atypican “Everyday ordinary people outgrow anger and jealousy.” ~ Atypican “To put out the most effort you must learn to be gentle.” ~ Atypican “It is possible, and very common for a person to be honest while being untruthful.” ~ Atypican “Condemning people for the same sort of violence that we ourselves still commit....That is the worst hypocrisy.” ~ Atypican “An imaginary problem is a real problem.” ~ Atypican “Slavery causes tyranny” ~Atypican “Prayer is a confession of what we lack, in order to get what we hope for” ~ Atypican “To be looked up to is the main motivation of priests and preachers.” ~ Atypican 1
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How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. -Barry Lopez 1
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Seriously, JakeJ? What was so offensive that I needed to be downvoted in a thread called "what's your favorite quote"? It wasn't my quote, and it didn't even have anything to do with Nazis or liberals or dead puppies. Was it the compassion? Was it the becoming adult part? That life is not black and white? Leaning into the light? 1
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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. " - Voltaire "I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom." - Voltaire "Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it." - President Thomas Jefferson when referring to Obama "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all outta gum." - Duke Nukem. |