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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum] 1
#23551640 - 08/17/16 10:50 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
-Paul Harvey
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"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe." --Philip K. Dick, from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
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"[T]o have any agency we need to think freely, which requires our love of truth to be greater than our fear of consequences. Risking one's status, career progression, or inviting criticism, are some of the fears that work semi-consciously to restrict people's ability to consider uncommon ideas."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: CookieCrumbs]
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Everything in moderation, even moderation itself.
-Oscar Wilde
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: concretelush] 2
#23587768 - 08/28/16 05:55 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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concretelush said: Everything in moderation, even moderation itself.
-Hunter s Thompson
It was Oscar Wilde who said this.
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The only reason we don't realize the truth is because it is too simple.
Ju Mipham
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DividedQuantum
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#23594328 - 08/30/16 04:45 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience." --Frank Herbert, Dune
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"The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.” ― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon
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DividedQuantum
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#23602718 - 09/01/16 08:52 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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"Some turds float to the top, and some sink to the bottom, but in the end they all get flushed." --Deputy Travis Junior, Reno 911!
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Self-righteous goes hand-in-hand with self-loathing.
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: falcon]
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Indigestion, n. A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the western wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: "Plenty well, no pray; big bellyache, heap God." --The Devil's Dictionary
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#23610815 - 09/04/16 10:01 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity - George Carlin
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun - Alan Watts
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LoneTripper] 4
#23612173 - 09/04/16 05:57 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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"How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? " --Charles Bukowski
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
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Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold.
Mario Cuomo
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maynardjameskeenan
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 1
#23636696 - 09/11/16 06:24 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
-H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
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"We have to change ourselves. And we'll never do that. Because of the dollars now. Cause everybody wants a dollar and a toy. Everybody's got a telephone that will make pancakes and rub your balls. So nobody wants to rock the boat. Nobody wants to change anything.
We are on a nice downward glide. I call it circling the drain. And the circles get smaller and smaller and faster and faster. And you watch the sink empty. Huish!
I then we'll be gone. And that's fine. I welcome it. I wish I could live 1000 years to watch it happen. From a distance - so I can see it all".
- (Interviewer) "Does that depress you?" -
"No, it lifts me up! It lifts me up, because I gave up on this stuff. I gave up on my species and my fellow countrymen. Because I think we squandered a great gifts. I think humans were given great great gifts: walking upright, binocular vision, opposable thumb, large brain... making tools, language, learning... Great gifts! And we gave it all up for both money and God. [...]
We gave it all up to superstition, primitive superstition, primitive shit. An invisible man in the sky, looking down, keeping track of what we do, make sure we don't do the wrong thing, if we do, he puts us in hell, where we burn forever.... That kind of shit is very limiting for the brain we have. So we keep ourselves limited.
And then we want a toy and a gizmo and gold and shiny things, and we want something to plug that will make big things for us... And all this shit is nothing! It's nothing.
And Americans, who also had great gifts... When you take the theory of democratic rule - self government. OK, they started off wrong: they owned slaves, they didn't let women vote, they didn't let people who didn't own land vote, fine, they started on the wrong foot. But the ideas were good. And we fuckin' blew that! We polluted it with this stuff, things, material goods, gains, gizmos, toys gadgets, having possessions...
'Ah, he's got a bigger truck! Did you see his truck? It's bigger than mine! I'm getting a new truck! Oh, and he has a DVD on it? Oh, I gotta have a DVD too!'
Please... whatever happened?.... And that's why I'm divorced from it now. I see it from a distance. I got myself a divorce. I said: "George, you have no stake at this, you don't care one way or another. So watch it, have fun."
You know what, I said it this way: when you're born in this world, you are given a ticket to the freak show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks. And I'm a notebook kind of guy: (writing) "Oh, my God, did you see that?" And I watch the freak show, and I kept my notes, and I make up stuff about it, and I talk about the freaks. And the freaks are all humans, and they are all like me, and we are all the same. I'm not better, I'm not different, I'm just a part now. But I don't have a stake at the outcome. I'm not a cheerleader for a given outcome now.
Oh, they say if you scratch a cynic, you'll find a disappointed idealist. And I would admit, that somewhere underneath all this there's a little flicker of a flame of idealism that would love to see it all - huish - change. But it can't happen that way. And incremental change - it just seems the pile of shit is too deep." --George Carlin
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#23645126 - 09/14/16 04:20 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships.
These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...
Remember, to spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.
Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person might not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.”
― Bob Moorehead
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“As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so” ― Freeman Dyson
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