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A Quote Thread....

"the clouds will part and the sky cracks open and god himself will reach his fucking arm through just to push you down, just to hold you down" - trent reznor
 
'Happiness is a choice, not a result'

'Love brings up anything unlike itself for the purpose of healing'

"A birthing planet vibrating at a lower tone than evolving Earth is preparing itself to receive beings who prefer to embrace greed and power, those who desire to control, possess and destroy that which is not rightfully theirs. The awaiting planet is far from Earth, but it is not altogether unlike Earth."
 
"There's nothing wrong with being different, just don't be average"-some dude I can't remember.
"Life is a dick, when it gets hard, fuck it"
"The reason why I don't believe in god is that I have to much respect for it to believe that it created humanity."
"Why live life from dream to dream just to dread the day when dreaming ends?" -Moulin Rouge
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past" -Ben Franklin(?)
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly-BF (?)
"People who fight fire with fire usually wind up with ashes"-BF
"Fear not death, for the sooner we die, the sooner we are immortal"-BF
"Our eyes are placed in front, because it's more important to look foward than to look back"
"Be more concerned about your character than your reputation. Your charachter is who you are, but your reputation is only what others think of you. "

And my all time favourite quote that I'm getting tatooed onto me, because it's just so true is "When the well is dry, we know the worth of water."

Ben Franklin was a genius. Poor Richard's Almanack is one of the truest, most inspirational books I have ever read.
 
"which is weaker, the student or the teacher?"
"Kiss me brother, i will not fight."
"truly the worst poker player is the philosopher."
all by Evan Horetsky
 
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
-Gottfried Leibniz
 
The desire to trancend self-concious selfhood is the principal appetite of the soul

Wherever you go, there you are

Its an ill wind that blows no minds

The sage wears rough clothing and holds the jewel in his heart
 
"I realized either the world is crazy or I am crazy... I picked the world and of course I was right."
- Jack Kerouac

"I been through mad different phases like mazes to find my way, and now I know that happy days are not far away" - DMX

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
-Helen Keller

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." - Traditional Cherokee Expression

"Cameras, smokescreens and lies... it's not the politicians but the actions I despise," - Beastie Boys

"Those whose minds are swept away in the pursuit of power or pleasure are incapable of following the supreme goal and will not attain samadhi." - Sri Krishna, The Bhagavad Gita ch. 2

"I've been crawling on my belly, clearing out what could of been, I've been wallowing in my own chaotic insecure delusions for a piece to cross me over, or a word to guide me in, I want to feel the power coming down, I want to feel the change consume me, in my shadow," - Tool

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
-Harold Whitman

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
Hunter S. Thompson

"Blessed are the solitary and elect, for you will find the Kingdom. For you are from it, and to it you will return." - Jesus, Gospel of Thomas

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." - Buddha

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is."
- Albert Einstein

"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." - Jesus, Gospel of Thomas

"Sleep! That's where I'm a Viking!" - Ralph Wiggum, The Simpsons

"I would speak on Jacob but I don't got the time, and too much knowledge can break up the rhyme, but I did it anyway just to wake up the mind."
- GZA

"who gonna chain this beast back on the leash? this Texas furor, for sure a, compassionless con who serve a lethal needle to the poor the cure for crime is murder?" - Zack De La Rocha

"My Earth and my Heaven contain me not, but the hearts of my faithful servants containeth me." - Mohammed

"Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you. For there is nothing hidden which will not become manifest." - Jesus, Gospel of Thomas

"Be a world child form a circle before we all go under, and fade out, fade out again." - Radiohead
 
"I Co-Exsist" - Me to my shrink.


"I wish that they'd swoop down in a country lane
Late at night when I'm driving
Take me on board their beautiful ship
Show me the world as I'd love to see it

I'd tell all my friends
But they'd never believe
They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely

I'd show them the stars
And the meaning of life
They'd shut me away
But I'd be all right
All right...

I'm just uptight
Uptight..."
- Radiohead - Subterrainian Homesick Alien


"While you make pretty speeches
I'm being cut to shreds
You feed me to the lions
A delicate balance

And this just feels like spinning plates
I'm living in cloud cuckoo land
And this just feels like spinning plates
My body is floating down the muddy river"
- Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates


"i'm never coming back
i'm never giving in
i'll never be the shine in your spit
i disconnect the act
i disconnect the dots
i disconnect the me in me"
- Smashing Pumpkins - Fuck You(an Ode to no one)


"Cinema, simulated life, ill drama
Fourth Reich culture - Americana
Chained to the dream they got ya searchin for
Tha thin line between entertainment and war"
- Rage Against the Machine - No Shelter


"The mentality of this place is such that sometimes a very massive crime slips by unnoticed..." - Hunter S. Thompson from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas


"Yeah, so Jonny(Depp) passed out in the basement on the floor, and he woke up the next morning and smoked about a pack of cigarettes untill he realised he was leaning on 6 kegs of dynomite. He came running to me asking me what the hell the dynomite was for. Do I need a reason to have dynamite in my basement? I asked him. Can't a man have dynamit in his own household and not be questioned by every passing drunk!?" - Hunter S. Thompson speaking to Conan O'Brian about his friendship with Jonny Depp. :D

God Hunter S. Thompson is one of the coolest men alive.
 
"But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first free-thinker and emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge."-Mikhail Bakunin
 
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

-Bertrand Russell


I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding of a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

-Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)


All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
-Ernest Rutherford


Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.

-JS Haldane, English geneticist. Possible Worlds and other Essays. (1927)


If we take in our hand any volume -- of divinity or metaphysics, for instance -- let us ask, 'Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?' No. 'Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?' No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

-Hume, Treatise Concerning Human Understanding.


'I know what you're thinking about,' said Tweedledum: 'but it isn't so, nohow.'
'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
-HL Mencken (1880-1956)

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
-RP Feynman

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It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.
-George Santayana

A certain impression I had of mathematicians was ... that they spent immoderate amounts of time declaring each other's work trivial.
-Richard Preston, New Yorker, 1992

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
-Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

Mathematical proofs like diamonds should be hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
-John Locke

At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.
-Bertrand Russell

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Never make a calculation until you know the answer.
-Wheeler and Taylor, in Spacetime Physics.

I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it possibly be like that?' because you will go down the drain into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
-RP Feynman

[During a lecture:] This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.
-Albert Einstein

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
-Bertrand Russell

... they are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
-Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

No man can worthely praise Ptolemye ... yet muste ye and all men take heed, that both in him and in all mennes workes, you be not abused by their autoritye, but evermore attend to their reasons, and examine them well, ever regarding more what is saide, and how it is proved, than who saieth it, for autorite often times deceaveth many menne.
-Robert Record, 'The castle of knowledge' 1556


"This is the essence of science. Even though I do not understand quantum mechanics or the nerve cell membrane, I trust those who do. Most scientists are quite ignorant about most sciences but all use a shared grammar that allows them to recognize their craft when they see it. The motto of the Royal Society of London is 'Nullius in verba' : trust not in words. Observation and experiment are what count, not opinion and introspection. Few working scientists have much respect for those who try to interpret nature in metaphysical terms. For most wearers of white coats, philosophy is to science as pornography is to sex: it is cheaper, easier, and some people seem, bafflingly, to prefer it. Outside of psychology it plays almost no part in the functions of the research machine.''

-(Steve Jones, University College, London) reviewing Pinker, NYRB Nov 6 1997 p13-14
 
zorn said:
If we take in our hand any volume -- of divinity or metaphysics, for instance -- let us ask, 'Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?' No. 'Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?' No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

-Hume, Treatise Concerning Human Understanding.
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Aw David Hume, that guy must have been a real blast at a party, huh? I find his philosophy to be extremely positivistic and reductionist, yet at the same time I have to admire the man for being so freaking brilliant.
 
^^^ So do I, but I kinda like that about it. :) No airy flights of philosophical fancy or anything.. and yeah, he's damn brilliant.
 
quotes

Wow, some great quotes so far, I'll try to mix those that make me feel, think, and laugh

"What about the children..........Fuck the children." George Carlin

"I noticed I had a spoon in my hand, so I took it and jammed it up my ass because if I was going to be in that much pain.....I was going to do it to myself." -comedian whose name I dont know describing the events of the Superbowl Halftime show

"Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom." Tyler Durden - Fight Club

The world is an ugly place, but you're so beautiful to me

After everything I've done
I hate myself for what I've become
-Trent Reznor

Those dancing were thought insane by those that could not hear the music.

In the beginning you are the master the problem is you never notice which day it was that you became the servant.

If a man could fuck a woman in a card board box, he wouldnt buy a house
-Dave Chappelle

I think of my mom every day of my life. She was as happy a person as I've ever been around. She made fun of herself and was telling jokes until the day she died--literally. She never had much money. No cars. She didn't have a house. But she was happy. She led a great life. She was proud. And people loved her. Tell me that's not success.
-Coach K

And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it’s a very very
mad world mad world
-Gary Jules - Mad World

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
-William S. Burroughs -TRUEST WORDS I HAVE EVER HEARD

"He is very unselfish with who he passes the ball to."
-Football Announcer talking about QB

The ill effects of marijuana have been grossly exaggerated in the U.S. Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror. People believe what they want to believe without regard for the facts.

Burroughs


"People who have experienced these drugs (psychedelics) agree that the mental changes produced are so far out of the ordinary range of human consciousness that they are impossible to accurately describe. It might be comparable to trying to explain music to a person born deaf."
-Pharmacology report on 2C-T-7 and 2C-T-2

"Fuck me God damn you!"
-The Temple of Poon

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'
Bill Maher

there are a ton of quotes that are fucking great from Victory Starts at Home by Bill Maher
 
A few Terence Mckenna quotes from his book The Food of the Gods

"To share food is to be of one body, through eating the food of others, we remain as one."

"The psilocybin intoxication is a rapture whose breadth and depth is the dispair of prose."

"Terror of being was the placenta that accompanied the birth of Christianity, the ultimate cult of domination by the unconstricted male ego."
 
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