"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"The true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love." -Che Guevara
The difference between truth and fiction: fiction has to make sense --Mark Twain
Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. -Flannery O'Connor
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." - Aldous Huxley
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. -Albert Einstein
'The word is divided into fear and boredom.' -Al Gordon
"It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After that, I would console myself for the plainness of my fellow bus-riders by dissecting them in my imagination." --J. B. S. Haldane
"You may be capable of great things, but life consists of small things." --Deng Ming-Dao
"If Christians want us to believe in a Redeemer, let them act redeemed." --Voltaire
"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do." --from Usenet
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." --H.G. Wells
"Only the educated are free." --Epictetus, Discourses
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting." --e.e. cummings
"Those unaware are unaware of being unaware." --Merrill Jenkins
"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves." --August Strindberg
"I have lived too long with cautious thinking. Now I will make myself mad." --Rumi
"Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life." --John Rogers (comedian with a graduate degree in physics)
"If morons could fly, the sky would be pitch black." --Red Eldorado
"We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic." --Cullen Hightower
"Now I want the truth!" "Talk t'Descartes, toots!" -Julie and Mr. Gone, the Maxx by Sam Keith
As Oscar Wilde wrote "The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered."
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells." - Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991
"Freedom is the right to never have to lie." -Albert Camus
"Any tool can be a weapon when held properly." -Ani DiFranco
"A riot is the language of the unheard." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." - A.J. Liebling
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Dom Helder Camara
"who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell
"Life without an ideal is spiritual death." - Emma Goldman
"When you can't say 'fuck,' you can't say 'fuck the government.'" - Lenny Bruce
"Fear not the path of truth for lack of people walking on it." - Arabic Proverb
"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." -Mohandas K Gandhi
"Power that comes from the barrel of a gun can only be effective for a short time." -The Dalai Lama
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it--even if I have said it--unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." -Buddha
"A good song should make you wanna tap your feet and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs." -Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine)
"If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street." -Studs Terkel
jesus is my copilot
he works the brake pedal
(me)
"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe." -Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.
"What a day to stop sniffing glue." -Mike Doyle, 9/11/01
"Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past." ~-Landrum Bolling
Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time. -anon
We are born cold, wet and hungry. Then things get worse. -anon
"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. that way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes." -anonymous
"Men have become the tools of their tools." - Henry David Thoreau
It's a well-known axiom in filmic studies that no film yet produced in the history of cinema could not have been improved with Jackie Chan and/or a monkey. --Stuart Anderson
"Whoever wants to work greatly on this earth must apply himself with such concentration of all his forces that to appear to idle specttors as insane." -Goethe
Not matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. -- (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man)
Be always displeased with what thou art, if you desirest to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest. But if thou have enough thou perishest. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still, nor go back, nor deviate. -- St. Augustine
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. -- Horace (65-8 B.C.)
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool., -- Kelvin Throop III
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away". -- Philip K. Dick
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. -- Albert Einstein
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. -- Steven Weinberg
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. -- Sydney J. Harris
"No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step." -- Sidney Hook
I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment." -- Gotama Buddha
"And God said to Moses: I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: I AM have sent me unto you." Exodus 3:14
"If you want to know what happens to you when you die, go look at some dead stuff." -- Dave Enyeart
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu
"The most important question in the study of government is 'how can we prevent government from going berserk and killing off half the population?'" -- John Kormylo
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. -- Socrates (470?-399 B.C.)
"The way to get a new theory accepted is to propose it and then wait for all the old physicists to die." -Max Planck
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. -- Sir Winston S. Churchill
"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day." --Bertrand Russell
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad." - Salvador Dali
"Sex is a far darker power that feminism has admitted. Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges." -Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
"We are born between feces and urine." (St. Augustine)
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. --Muhammad Ali
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -- Leo Tolstoi
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." ~Albert Einstein
"An integral part of any relationship is knowing you could be killed in your sleep at any moment." -- Trent Reznor
"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him." -- Booker T. Washington
"philosophy is the disease of that which it ought to be the cure" -a philosopher
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock."-WIll Rogers
"Only the shallow know themselves." -Oscar Wilde
"We don't know a milionth of 1% about anything."-Thomas edison
"I gave up drinking, smoking and sex. It was the most horrifying 20 minutes of my life." -anonymous
"Silence is the true friend that never betrays." -Confucious
There are still people out there who say psychology isn't a science. Of course, these people also worship sky-elves, so fuck 'em. -Talysman