The Great Quotes thread

[chocolate milk]

Posted by Star Mariner (here)
"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is not ignorance, it is the Illusion of Knowledge."
- Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Bumping this profoundly underrated quote. It points to the very heart of the illusion humanity finds itself stuck in. Seemingly impossible to escape from, yet resolved as swiftly as removing a tablecloth and shaking it out, if only we simply wake up and become aware of it, instead of being in conflict with it.

“Whatever you think appears in consciousness as a show. That’s the way thought works to display its content, as a show of imagination. Therefore if you think the observer is separate from the observed, it’s going to appear in consciousness as two different entities. The point is that the words will seem to be coming from the observer who knows, who sees, and therefore they are the truth, they are a description of the truth. That’s the illusion.”

David Bohm (1917 – 1992)

[pueblo]

Posted by Jill (here)

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

[Eva2]

Since the very earliest time
When both people and animals lived on earth
A person could become an animal
and an animal could become a human being.
Sometimes they were people
and sometimes animals
and there was no difference.
All spoke the same language
That was the time when words were like magic.
The human mind had mysterious powers.
A word spoken by chance might have strange consequences.
It would suddenly come alive
and what people wanted to happen could happen--
all you had to do was say it.
Nobody could explain this:
That's the way it was.
Nalungiaq, Inuit woman interviewed by ethnologist Knud Rasmussen in the early twentieth century.

[justntime2learn]

The eyes are useless when the mind is blind ~ Mark Venturini

[pueblo]

"Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work.

So do you also; cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is in shadow; labor to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiseling your statue until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness established in the stainless shrine."

- Plotinus

[Bill Ryan]

Indeed you won the election, but I won the count.

Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza (1896-1956)

[sandyinatlanta]

"Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted"

Always thought it was Einstein but turns out it is by a sociologist by the name of William Bruce Cameron.

[justntime2learn]

There is a difference between loyalty and bondage. There's a difference between faithfulness and fearfulness. There's a difference between being devoted and being dominated. The difference is called freedom, and it is all the difference in the world ~ Bryant McGill

[Lunesoleil]

- Edgar Cayce: "... the position of the planets shows the trends for a given life, without reference to the will of the native ..." ... So make the individual understand how the power of his will can overcome everything .... ". (Reading 3744-3)

- Dante: "... The stars are indeed the first cause of your actions, but you have received a light which allows you to distinguish good from evil, and a free will which, after having begun to fight against the stars, triumphs everything if it is well directed ... "- (Purgatory, XVI, 73).

Time ripens all things, by time all things come to light, time is the father of truth. François Rabelais

Never take astrology as a mechanic, even if it is celestial, because you risk drying yourself up in it.
Charles VOUGA

I am not trying to know the answers, I am trying to understand the questions. "Confucius


The one who does not know ... and who does not know that he does not know, run away from it
The one who does not know ... and who knows that he does not know, educate him
Whoever knows ... and who doesn't know that he knows, wake him up
Whoever knows ... and who knows he knows, follow him
Chinese proverb

Pay attention to your thoughts because they will become words.

Pay attention to your words because they will become deeds.

Pay attention to your actions because they will become habits.

Pay attention to your habits because they will become your character.

Pay attention to your character because it is your destiny. "
The Talmud

"Do not believe ..." (Kâlâma sutta Siddhârtha)
“Do not believe in the faith of traditions even though they have been honored for generations and in many places.
Don't believe a thing because many are talking about it.
Do not believe on the faith of the wise men of times past.
Do not believe what you have imagined, thinking that a God has inspired you.
Do not believe anything on the sole authority of your masters or priests. After examination, believe what you have experienced yourself and found to be reasonable, which is for your own good and that of others. "

[Franny]

We have been speaking to each other as though we are all in the same sphere of consciousness, we are not. What we are seeing is not a rivalry in ideas, or even politics, but rather completely different levels of consciousness trying to establish social homeostasis. ~ Gigi Young

[norman]

The Media has spent 4 years Fact Checking the President, well now it's time to Fact Check the Vote - Paul Joseph Watson, November 2020

[Eva2]

Martin Luther King: ′′ I have one dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, dream of justice, dream of equality and wish I no longer need to dream them "

[Eva2]

A similar theme/scheme has played out with me (obviously on a smaller scale but having been on the receiving end of a group of vile narcissists, I certainly understand and feel this message.

[Hermoor]

Charlie Robinson's delivery close to his effortless best.

"China is an interesting place, to say the least. In less than half a century the country was transformed from mostly farmland in to the largest factory on earth. This was not an accident."

One way or another that little ripple is shaping up to tsunami the lot of us unless we can pull the plug on it.

[Eva2]

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

[Constance]

"Let someone love you just the way you are .... as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room."
Marc Hack

[Eva2]

'Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.'
Alberto Hofmann

'I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
To her fair works did nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.
Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And ‘tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
The birds around me hopped and played:
Their thoughts I cannot measure,
But the least motion which they made,
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.
The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.
If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature’s holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?'

Alberto Hofmann

[Eva2]

[pueblo]

"Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self."

- Kierkegaard


"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens."

- Carl Jung

[Lunesoleil]

Posted by Jill (here)

The most difficult subjects can be explained To thé most slow-wittew man or he has bit formes any idea of them aldready , but thé simples thinf canot ne made clean To the most intelligent man if he is format persuaded that he knows already , without a shadow of doubt what is laid before him
Leo Tolstoy

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Remember that great accomplishments take time and that there is no overnight success. Leo Tolstoy

Of all the sciences that man can and should know, the main one is the science of living in such a way as to do the least harm and the most good possible. Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be it! Leo Tolstoy

It is only a short step from killing animals to killing people, just like making animals suffer to make people suffer. Leo Tolstoy

Go, sow, sow and God will make it grow. Leo Tolstoy



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