I will be constantly adding more quotes, because there are so many good ones out there for me to find yet!
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
All our yesterdays have lighted fools
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.
Where is the life we lost in living?
There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
Satanists are more aware than anyone of how humanity - including ourselves - have a finger on the miraculous and the monstrous, and most poignantly it's sometimes difficult to define the one from the other.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re
still a rat.
Everything leads us to believe that there exists a certain point of intelligence at which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived as opposites.
Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority.
When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are infinite.
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.
Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.
This is the way the world ends
If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.
Such people are not only unable to admit that what is morally degraded can be aesthetically right, but their real demand of every artist is that he shall pat them on the back and tell them that thought is unnecessary.
Genius... is the transcendent capacity for taking trouble first of all.
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
...of the perversion of instinct that has been made possible by the machine age...
The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.
The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one,
You're talking a lot
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
Peeping through my behold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is infrared and some little ultraviolet, perfectly apparent to many animals, but invisible to me. A nightmare network of ganglia, charged and firing without my knowledge, cuts and splices what I see, editing it for my brain. Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain: 'This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.'
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but *minds* alive on the shelves.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
Custom is often only the antiquity of error.
Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.
I teach you the Superman. Man is something to be surpassed.
[Man found a solitary existence tedious.] There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'
Master-morality and Slave-morality.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.
Great intellects are skeptical.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Ignorance is prolonged infancy, only deprived of its charm.
As if anything were so common as ignorance! The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
The narrower the mind, the broader the statement.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
"The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom respectable. No virtuous man--that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense--has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading...
The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.
A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass; he is actually ill. Worse, he is incurable."
The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked...
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the
time we have rushed through life trying to save.
A person with a watch knows what time it is. Someone with two
watches is never sure.
Absurdity: a statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with
one’s own opinion.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but
World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Many students treat knowledge as a liquid to be swallowed rather
than as a solid to be chewed, and then wonder why it provides so
little nourishment.
Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is
no path and leave a trail.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far
one can go.
I passionately hate the idea of being ‘with it,’ I think an
artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Doing more things faster is no substiture for doing the right
things.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to
performing daily acts of trivia.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a
fool.
A government is like fire: a handy servant, but a dangerous
master.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual
wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the
same time prevented from ever clashing.
The ultimate aim of government is... to free every man from fear,
that he may live in all possible security... In fact, the true
aim of government is liberty.
All existence is senseless and there is no possibility of an
objective basis for truth.
Savages we call them, because their Manners differ from ours,
which we think the Perfection of Civility; they think the same of
theirs.
Wherever Christians have passed, conquering and discovering, it
seems as though a fire has gone, consuming everything.
Chacun appelle barbarie ce qui n’est pas de son usage.
If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would
rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as
our neighbouring savages are.
Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a
large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder
is divided according to an agreed convention. If this
villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures
cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the
title of kingdom.
Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble questions.
Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when
thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
True philosophy invents nothing, it merely establishes and
describes what is.
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Cynicism is the precipitate of any experiment in human nature.
I believe that this country’s policies should be heavily biased
in favor of non-discrimination.
In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things
remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and
shudders for the refined, and in brief, all that is rare for the
rare.
Science is a belief, a theory. But it is most accepted because
of its testibility... or it passes the test we make for it to
pass.
Lend our voices only to sounds of freedom
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
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Signifying nothing.
- William Shakespeare (Macbeth, Macbeth)
- Nietzsche
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Where is the wisdom we lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we lost in information?
-T.S. Eliot
-Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
- Brian Courtemanch
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In close proximity.
- Anonymous
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- William Blake
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This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
- T.S. Eliot (The Hollow Men)
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- George Orwell (Benefit of Clergy)
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Yet the light of a whole life dies, when love is gone.
- Francis William Bourdillon
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-Saint Augustine, CITY OF GOD, c.420
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-Brandi (aka H.P.Lovecraft; aka Nietzsche)
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