Quotes

Quotes

Enjoy the expansion of yet another day, another year, another time - while we are free to live as much as we are to breathe! -Danielle Schasse

"Is All that we see or seem, but a dream within a dream?" -Edgar Alan Poe

"They are waiting to take us into the Severed Garden. Do you know how pale and wanton thrill-full comes death on a strange hour . . . unannounced, unplanned for, like a scary over-friendly guest you've brought to bed? Death makes Angles of us all, and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws. No more money, no more fancy dress, this other Kingdome seems by far the best. Until it's other jaws reveal incest, and loose obedience to a vegetable law . . . I will not go-prefer a Feast of Friends to the Giant Family." -Jim Morrison

"The only people for me are the mad ones... the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes, "Awww!" -Jack Kerouac

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Einstein

"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends" -Shakespeare

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

They're treating this planet like we have a spare one. - Albert Midoux,

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. - Hypatia of Alexandria

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -unknown

GOD, n. 1) A three-letter justification for murder; 2) An unsavory character found in many popular works of fiction; 3) An explanation that means "I have no explanation."

MIND, n.
A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

Dalai Lama: "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."

Tsao Hsueh-chin: When the unreal is taken for the real, the real becomes unreal."

Dana Scully, character on the TV program "X-files": "There is no contradiction in Nature - only contradiction in what we know of it."

Anais Nin: "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." Joan Crawford

Anon; a Wiccan prayer: "May the Gods always stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk."

Khalil Gibran: "For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction".

Alfred Kinsey: "The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform."

Calvin & Hobbes: (cartoon characters): "It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning."

Jean Jaures: "Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive."

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
- unknown

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher

It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts

Carpe Deim

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