Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[GrandTrinity]

Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy.

My mind craves nectar day and night.

Like a blue lotus floating on the sea of love

-Shpongle

[Lozen]

"Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them." -Kant

 

Oh, and "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." I forget who said that.

[Wayfarer64]

Thanks Lozen-that's one of my favorites too-by Napoleon Bonaparte.

[rex]

Man's work is not merely to exist on this earth, to scratch ignorantly at its surface, to mutilate Nature in every possible way, to fight and rob his neighbour, but to develop the powers surrounding him, to manipulate those forces that he may truly and deservedly claim his right to inherit the earth. A garden which has been neglected for years and is overgrown with weeds, when taken over by an intelligent human being who will work hand in hand with Nature, may once again become a thing of beauty and joy. Thus the earth, which is man's garden, must be sown and cultivated by him, perfected by his art.

 

Archibald Cockren

[xenolith]

Suspend belief to discover new ones.

Edited November 21, 2006 by xenolith

[Treena]

We are what we repeatedly do. ~Aristotle

[feahth]

"The Sponge

 

None of us understands our story better

than this nonentity, unconscious slip

of nature, nonetheless our common parent

dilating at the bottom of the sea.

 

The parent, too, of octopus and pony,

of reefs and villages, once it was strange

simply for being not a rock itself —

not rock, but a blank sleep on a rock shelf.

 

And, deeply sympathetic to the rock,

to sea and sea-dust washing through its skin,

it knows, although it doesn't know it knows,

that minds and their milieux are all one thing.

 

Some see its way of thinking; most, not yet.

Still, one day, just by living, all will find

reason enough within themselves to think

the single thought forever in its mind."

 

-Joshua Mehigan

[Taomeow]

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with is not it, and what's it seems strange and scary to me.

-- Grandpa Simpson

 

 

I loved you for your body,

there's a voice that sounds like God to me

declaring that your body's really you.

-- Leonard Cohen

 

 

Ong namo gurudev namo (I bow before my higher self)

-- a Hindu chant

 

 

It's not hard to wrong a cat but there's no honor in that, I can assure you. That's right, none whatsoever!

-- Mikhail Bulgakov

Edited December 18, 2006 by Taomeow

[QiDr]

Turn right at the first star, then, straight on 'till morning.

 

Peter P.

[iadnon]

"I am who I will be" - The flaming bush (old testament).

[Taomeow]

With Beginning, __________ created God.

-- Zohar (a kabbalistic text quoting the Bible in Aramaic exactly and literally. The original "__________" is also translated as "it" or "nothingness.")

[clouds pass by]

"Someday we'll cut our hair off and they won't know who we are!"

Arlo Guthrie on the "Mike Douglas Show" or the "Merv Griffin Show" or...

 

"If you're not cheating, you're not trying hard enough".

Jim Rome

 

Real estate developer to W.C. Fields, "You're drunk!!!"

Fields replies, "And you're crazy. And tomorrow I'll be sober and you'll still be crazy!"

 

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Bob Dylan

 

When life looks like easy street, there is danger at your door.

Robert Hunter

[Leidee]

"And should never run your mouth with a suspect chin"

 

Pretty close to last line of Method Man's "Suspect Chin Music"

 

The WU rock.

[Pero]

[Uncle Fester]

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Edited September 28, 2021 by darebak

[soaring crane]

"It is wise to remember, that but for one trifling exception, the entire universe is made up of others"- Oliver Wendall Holmes

[KnightoftheBlackRose]

"Sta Ac Es Judica" Stand and be judged, this is a self quote but it is also a philosophy I hope you may find something in it as I did

[sean]

[mYTHmAKER]

With Beginning, __________ created God.

-- Zohar (a kabbalistic text quoting the Bible in Aramaic exactly and literally. The original "__________" is also translated as "it" or "nothingness.")

 

Also known as Bupkis

[fatherpaul]

Dr. David Bohm,

Profressor of Theoretical Physics at Birkbeck College,

University of London:

 

"But I was thinking of looking at one point, that the importance of these fragments is that when I identify myself and say "I am this", "I am that", I mean the whole of me. The whole of me is rich or poor, or American, or whatever, and therefore it seems all-important. I think the trouble is that the fragment claims it is the whole, and makes itself very important."

[Yen Hui]

[fatherpaul]

"if it aint broke, ya dont need it."

 

psk 1992

[Taomeow]

Stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost. -- T.H. White

[aporetic]

"Dark and, so to speak, inscrutable spaces being met with in life, there must be such places in any statement dealing with life."

--Joseph Conrad, Chance

[Taomeow]

Think as though your every thought is carved in fire in the sky for everyone to see,

for in Reality, it is.

-- Gautama

 

Tell me, my friend,

tell me, my friend,

tell me the law of the earth that you have learned.

I won't tell you, my friend,

I won't tell you.

If I told you the law of the earth,

you would fall on your face and weep.

-- Gilgamesh

 

A movement is accomplished in six stages,

and the seventh brings return.

The seven is the number of the young light,

it forms when darkness is increased by one.

-- Pink Floyd/Syd Barrett channeling the I Ching, Chapter 24