More Quotes to Live By

"The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct 'actuality' of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation, however, is impossible . . . Atoms are not things." Werner Heisenberg


"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. --Friedrich Nietzsche
"The vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world.
And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George W. Bush
(Washington DC, Oct 27 2003)
"The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation

that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing
falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any
refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the
war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this
process of grotesque self-deception."
--Mark Twain, 1917










"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong." Winston Churchill


"There are two ways of losing oneself: by insulation
in the particular or by dilution in the 'universal'"
Aimé Cesairé






"Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music."
- Anon



"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

"If the law is on your side, argue the law; if the
law is against you, argue the facts; and if the law
AND the facts are against you, just argue."





"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?" Stanislaw Lem


"Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance." -- Oscar Wilde


"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory."
-Steven Wright





"It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others."



"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson



"Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever."

"the tragedy of Canada is that they had the opportunity to have British culture, French cuisine,
and American technology. Instead they ended up with American culture, British cuisine, and
French technology."






"To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe. I call it stillness, but it is a jewel with many facets: that stillness is also joy, and it is love."
eckhart tolle


"To read a book early in the morning, at daybreak, in the vigor and dawn of one's strength—this is sheer viciousness! —"
—Ecce Homo, WIASC, 8






"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving
taxi cabs and cutting hair." George Burns



"Walk with the Gods. And he does walk with the Gods who lets them see his soul invariably satisfied with his lot and carrying out the will of that "genius", a particle of himself, which Zeus has given to every man as his captain and guide." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus [121 A.D. -- 180 A.D.] -- Meditations



"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."

- H. L. Mencken





"What do you call someone in possesion of all the facts? Paranoid." -William Burroughs



"What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only
imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
This is a genuine religious feeling and has nothing to do with mysticism."
Albert Einstein



"What is the difference between a sh*thead and a brown-noser"?  the answer is depth perception


"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly."
- Barbara J. Winter



"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why
bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but
what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One
descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of
conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher
up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know." Rene Daumal




(Terence McKenna) They were urging me to experiment with my voice and I discovered years later, taking Ayahuasca in the Amazon jungles, tribes of Indians that have actually mastered this art, and that saturate their bodies with DMT and harmaline, and then sing. But for them this singing is not a musical exercise, it's a pictorial exercise. They see what they intend. This is a kind of telepathy. Well, it's humbling, it's transformative, it's astonishing to realise that Shamans all over the world for time uncountable have been accessing this appalling, complex, ontologically challenging, scientifically impossible, reality. This means that culturally we are living out some kind of schizophrenic delusion, because we live our lives totally ignorant of these possibilities, or perhaps only glimpsing them at the edge of anaesthesia, or something like that, unless, of course, we have the courage to be counter-cultural heads, but even then many people confine themselves in the private world of their own reflection because social pressure and, indeed, social legislation make it very touchy to talk about these things. But I say to you, this is part of the human birthright. This is as much a part of the game as birth, sex and dying.
From the Camden Center Talk
(Terence McKenna)

“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspects of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds them. A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb show: you wonder why he is alive. This discomfort in the face of man’s own inhumanity, this incalculable tumble before the image of what we are, this “nausea,” as a writer of today calls it, is also the absurd. Likewise the stranger who at certain seconds comes to meet us in the mirror, the familiar and yet alarming brother we encounter in own photograph is also the absurd.”
- camus



> "And if there is still one hellish, truely accursed thing in our time, it is > our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the > stake, signaling through the flames."-Antonin Artaud. ~