The Great Quotes thread

[pueblo]

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[Kryztian]

Now, the first time you encounter the spinning of the wheels you try to go inside and figure out every single spoke of the wheel. Then, over time, you go, ‘Madness, madness, madness, madness, oh, really strong truth. Let me hold on to that.’ You have to reach inside the hurricane and pull out that beautiful little baby.”

- - - George Wolfe

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[EFO]

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[pueblo]

[Eva2]

One is nothing that
One is conscious of.
Yet one creates it all.
When the structure is dismantled,
The foundation is revealed.
This one can point to the sky;
The seeing of the stars is One's own.
wu'hsin

[TargeT]

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

-Dune

[pueblo]

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[norman]

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - Bejamin Franklin

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[Sue (Ayt)]

Some quotes on fear that I had saved:

A propaganda tactic of dehumanization is a tactic that involves lumping a group together in such a way that takes away any individuality.
Unknown

“For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.“
Job

Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
ACIM

“Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.”
Bhagavad Gita

“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”
FDR

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato

If you want to cure the world, don’t emanate fear – emanate love.
Ram Dass

There is no illusion greater than fear.
Lao Tzu

Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
Plotinus

Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.
Paulo Coelho

If I had just a little bit of wisdom I should walk the great path and fear only straying from it.
Lao Tzu

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
Sophocles

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.
C.G. Jung

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John

“But I'm not, I'm not giving in an inch to fear
'Cause I've promised myself this year
I feel oh, like I owe it, to someone… “
CS&N

[The Moss Trooper]

You can pick your friends,

And you can pick your nose.

But you can't pick your friend's nose.


Again, another of my father's pearls of wisdom. When I was growing up and in my teens, and these little pearls were oft spouted, I used to think he was the biggest hypocrite on Earth......... It wasn't until I was older, wiser and had children of my own, that I realised that, no, he wasn't a hypocrite, he'd just lived more and had more life experience than I. Had done these things and made the mistakes, and hence, knew.

[justntime2learn]

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ~ Albert Einstein

[onawah]

“It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.”
JOHN STUART MILL

[Zanshin]

The following is excerpted from a letter to Woodrow Wilson from Col. Edward Mandell House:

“Very soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a national system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to work and earn a living. They will be our chattel, and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions.

Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be none the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two would figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability.

After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor to this fraud which we will call ‘Social Insurance.’ Without realizing it, every American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner; every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our dummy corporation to foment this plot against America.”

As a matter of course these prophetic words have come to apply to all of us - not just Americans.

[Bill Ryan]

Here's a quote for us all in 2020.

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A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us."

St. Antony the Great

[Sue (Ayt)]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Here's a quote for us all in 2020.

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A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us."

St. Antony the Great

That reminds me of the theme of that weird childhood poem I shared in another thread. It was a strange middle-of-the night download type of a poem, that I was compelled to jump up and write down.
I don't know if I was actually the author, though.
Share-one-poem-from-your-younger-days

[justntime2learn]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Here's a quote for us all in 2020.

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A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us."

St. Antony the Great

This reminded me of a song, speak to me by Pink Floyd.

"I've been mad for ****ing years, absolutely years,
Been over the edge for yonks,
Been working me buns off for bands

I've always been mad, I know I've been mad,
Like the most of us, very hard to explain why you're mad,
Even if you're not mad" ~ Pink Floyd

[Sue (Ayt)]

And yet another:

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

[Eva2]

This knowledge came upon me
In a flash:
When I sought to remember
What was before
Thoughts arrived, before
The sense of the body arrived, before
This me was born.
The revelation was that
I was birthed from Nature,
From the Totality of every thing.
Shackled by time,
Anchored to an identity
Of my own making,
With smallness.
When I am done,
I will return there;
The cycle will be complete.
Not by death
But renewal into the Continuum
wu'hsin