The Great Quotes thread

[pueblo]

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

- G.K. Chesterton


"Gentlemen did not always live up to their ideal, but the existence of an ideal is a matter of extreme importance"

-Richard M. Weaver


"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."

-William A. Ward

[Wind]

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Only one thing is certain — that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.

-Ancient paradox

[Eva2]

[pueblo]

"The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it"

-Osho

[Eva2]

'Even our lostness and confusion has its own dignity. It's the discomfort that is the greatest evolutionary force for our awakening'.
' Adyashanti

[pueblo]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SCO3ZZJ9KdY

[Constance]

“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.” - Buckminster Fuller

[Eva2]

"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

[pueblo]

"Be kind, every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle."
-Plato

"Money makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value."
-Plato

"The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice."
-Aristotle

[Constance]

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
Claude Monet
Claude Monet from the Japanese bridge in his garden, 1918.

[Catsquotl]

“When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt,
pain itself will crack the rock and Ah!
Let the soul emerge”.
~ Rumi

[Bluegreen]

Posted by Constance (here)
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
Claude Monet
Claude Monet from the Japanese bridge in his garden, 1918.

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Matisse had other motivations

[Bluegreen]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zxx1BWXI4AA

"The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society, and we are as a people, inherently and historically, opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweigh the dangers which are cited to justify it.

Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today there is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gwJDs1cg9Eo

[gord]

I just like the juxtaposition of these two quotes:

We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the american public believes is false. - William Casey, CIA Director 1981

Logical thinking is important, but insufficient. In a maze of deception, you also need to be able to unlearn, and recognise you have been fooled. This is an emotional skill, as it means dealing with a hurt ego and the loss of the “feeling of knowing”. --Martin Geddes

[Constance]

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
Pearl S. Buck

[Eva2]

The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bull**** does.
Terence McKenna

[Eva2]

"If you're intelligent, and you live past forty, you will outgrow your culture. I mean, some people may do it sooner but you have to be a complete idiot to just buy-in at fifty-five, at sixty, at seventy-five, at eighty. What are you still going to be doing? Expressing homophobic views, voting Republican, and worrying about the A, B, and C's of phony reality? I mean, most people get to a place where they just see: it's a bunch of crap! The scandals are recycled, the philosophical issues are recycled, the technical innovations are recycled. Once you've been through about three cycles of this you realize that this is a media-created state of cultural involvement and reciprocal narcissism, only to be assuaged by the expenditure of money, and that you can just walk away from it. It is unnecessary."
- Terence McKenna

[Constance]

Posted by Jill (here)
"If you're intelligent, and you live past forty, you will outgrow your culture. I mean, some people may do it sooner but you have to be a complete idiot to just buy-in at fifty-five, at sixty, at seventy-five, at eighty. What are you still going to be doing? Expressing homophobic views, voting Republican, and worrying about the A, B, and C's of phony reality? I mean, most people get to a place where they just see: it's a bunch of crap! The scandals are recycled, the philosophical issues are recycled, the technical innovations are recycled. Once you've been through about three cycles of this you realize that this is a media-created state of cultural involvement and reciprocal narcissism, only to be assuaged by the expenditure of money, and that you can just walk away from it. It is unnecessary."
- Terence McKenna

Once you've been through about three cycles of this you realize that this is a media-created state of cultural involvement and reciprocal narcissism, only to be assuaged by the expenditure of money, and that you can just walk away from it. It is unnecessary.

[Innocent Warrior]

“Thought creates the world and then says I didn’t do it.”

“Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls it. Whereas actually thought is the one that controls each one of us.”

“We are internally related to everything, not just externally related. Consciousness is an internal relationship to the whole, we take in the whole, and we act toward the whole. Whatever we have taken in determines basically what we are. Wholeness is a kind of attitude or approach to the whole of life. If we can have a coherent approach to reality then reality will respond coherently to us.”

“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”

“Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than ‘I know’ oriented?”

DAVID BOHM