Paved roads are comfortable for walking, but no flowers grow there. -Vincent van Gogh 'Christmas': Glass balls and glowing lights. / Dead tree in living room. / Killed to honor birth. -Ron Loeffler A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. — Thomas Harrison The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist All you have to lose is time, and even that you leave behind. Truth is a moving target. If this sentence wasn't true, you'd still be confused. - samovar, undernet #philosophical A celebrity is someone who's well-known for how well-known they are. We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of. [freenode #philosophy] I suspect that people cherish whatever they see in their mind when their brain brings them across some circumstantial river in life What doesn't kill you gives you a set of unhealthy coping mechanisms and a dark sense of humor. Only when you are looking from awake awareness can you see that what you took to be a solid self is a flurry of changing content arising within your mind. -Loch Kelly, Shift Into Freedom At the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistical way only when you employ large enough numbers. Between that universe and a relatively predictable one where the passage of a single planet can be timed to a picosecond, other forces come into play. For the in-between universe where we find our daily lives, that which you believe is a dominant force. Your beliefs order the unfolding of daily events. If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order. -Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather. -Bill Hicks As Judge of his village, Mullah Nazardin was trying a case. Listening to the plaintiff, he said: “You are right”. Listening to the defendant, he said, “You are right”. The clerk of the court bent down and whispered to the judge, “But Mullah, they can’t both be right.” To which Nazardine replied, “You are right, too.” I broke my G-string while fingering a minor. Time passes, life is a stream, etc., so people say. That is not what I find: time stands still, and so do I. All the plans I project fly straight back at me; when I want to spit, I spit in my own face. - Kierkegaard Between what is said & not meant, & what is meant & not said, most of love is lost.~K Gibran The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. -attributed to Albert Einstein There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea. ? D.H. Lawrence Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. - John Barrymore In English, any word can be verbed. The moment a boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. ~ Eric Berne Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness. People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. -Stephen King As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -Albert Einstein A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. -Rabindranath Tagore The man who listens to reason alone is lost; reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. -George Bernard Shaw How gibbering man becomes, when he is really clever, and thinks he is giving the ultimate and final description of the universe! Can't he see that he is merely describing himself, and that the self he is describing is merely one of the more dead and dreary states that man can exist in? -D.H. Lawrence The wiser you are, the more you believe in equality, because the difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to all that is unknown. -Albert Einstein According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union. -Rabindranath Tagore Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. -Ludwig Van Beethoven When I look into your eyes it isn't you that I see, but who you want to be. -some band, I think I'm not myself today. Maybe I'm you. -T-Shirt If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove. -Cheyenne (Native American proverb) Narcissism is not a valid substitute for self-esteem. -some random IRC user Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. -Oscar Wilde Forgetting someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew. -someone I knew on MSN Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. -Rabindranath Tagore Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. War doesn't determine who's right; it determines who's left. Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. (anything said in latin sounds profound.) If this quote didn't exist, somebody would have invented it by now. This statement is unprovable. (adaptation of Godel's incompleteness theorem) Life is like an analogy. By the time you read this you've already read it. -a T-shirt I have This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. Can't brain today.. I have the dumb. On a clear disk you can seek forever. We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of. -some kids ' show The opposite of the sense of the sacred is not serenity or sobriety. It is drabness; taken-for-grantedness. Lack of interest. The humdrum and prosaic. -Smith Nice guys don't finish last, they're running a different race. Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.