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What are you favorite philosophical and political quotes?

One day I was really high and I was listening to some G?G! and an Alan Watts sample was played;
Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream, and that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of dreams, or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fufill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could concieve. And after several nights, of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say "Well, that was pretty great. But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's gonna be." And you would dig that and come out of that and say "Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?". And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.
And at the point in time, even though I couldn't think of the things I might have wanted to experience, I couldn't conceive the pleasures that are possible, that my life was extremely dull and stagnant, everything felt okay. I felt like I was exactly where I was supposed to be, I didn't want to be in any other situation. I wanted to experience that moment for what it was.
It's not my favourite, but it has instilled an emotion in me that no other amalgamation of words has, however fleeting that feeling was.
 
I embrace my desire to
feel the rhythm, to feel connected
enough to step aside and weep like a widow
to feel inspired, to fathom the power,
to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral
of our divinity and still be a human.

(Tool - Lateralus)
 
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;
but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”
- Francis Bacon

"It is true that, a little philosophy inclineth a mans mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bring mans mind to religion"
- Francis Bacon
 
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

James Baldwin (1924-1987) African-American writer.
 
"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us." - Anthony the Great
 
The day the walls of the citys
Will crumble away
Uncovering our naked souls,
We'll all start singing,
Shouting, screaming
Loud, loud, loud, loud.

The day the circus horses
Will stop turning around,
Running fast through the green valleys,
We'll sing and cry and shout
Loud, loud, loud, loud.

The day the cars will lay in heaps
Their wheels turning in vain,
We'll run along the empty highways
Shouting, screaming, singing
Loud, loud, loud, loud.

The day young boys will stop
Becoming soldiers, and soldiers
Will stop playing war games,
We'll sing and cry and shout
Loud, loud, loud, loud.

The day will come up
That we'll all wake up
Hearing the shouts of joy
And shouting together with the freaks
Loud, loud, loud, loud.

The day the world will turn upside down
We'll run together round and round
Screaming, shouting, singing
Loud, loud, loud, loud.
 
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