The Great Quotes thread

[Anka]

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” Edward R. Murrow

If there were no "pcr tests" then maybe there would be no statistics in chain reaction (?)

[Kryztian]

"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

- - - Gustav Mahler

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ag18Np_JInY

[Eva2]

“At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.”
— Aldous Huxley

[Constance]

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.” ~Charles Bukowski

[Constance]

“The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.” - Rumi

[pueblo]

"True love differs from gold and clay
That to divide is not to take away"

- Anonymous

[Constance]

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature ... the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter."
Rachel Carson

[Guru Know It All.]

The journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step.
Inch by Inch it's a synch yard by yard it's very hard.

Always Us Living Love.

[Guru Know It All.]

Love Victor and his study of water is pure magic.
Always Us Living Love.

[Guru Know It All.]

The wisdom that we seek is far beyond the words we speak.
Me . at the Living Love College USA.

[Eva2]

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
George Orwell

Listen closely...
the eternal hush of silence goes on and on
throughout all this
and has been going on
and will go on and on
This is because the world
is nothing but a dream
and is just thought in
the everlasting eternity
pays no attention to it
Jack Kerouac

[Eva2]

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. Whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

[Kryztian]

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

~~~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, 1881

[Lunesoleil]

"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.
Do not believe a chosen one because many are talking about it.
Do not believe on the faith of the wise men of times past.
Do not believe what you are imagining, 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. "

[Agape]

Every form of happiness rests on consent.

Our state of “unhappiness” of any kind on the other hand, reflects our disagreement with reality of matters.

Before humans achieve state of harmony and happiness they will have to meditate on meaning of “consensual reality” for thousand years.

There is no internet in heaven like there’s no rest for the wicked.

DoDo

😁

[Bill Ryan]

We must be the most miserable, wet, cold stinking wretches imaginable. But we’re alive, really alive, like people seldom are.

Climber Warren Harding, in a note dropped to the valley floor in a tin can towards the end of his epic 27-day ascent of El Capitan in 1970.

[pueblo]

"The words we give to earthly realities engender illusion; they turn the heart away from the Real to the un-real. Real to un-real.The one who hears the word God does not perceive the Real, but an illusion or an image of the Real....High Spiritual powers (the Archon) wanted to deceive man ....They took the name for goodness and applied it to what was not good: Words became deceitful, and (since) then they are joined to that which is without being and without goodness. They alienate with simulations and appearances: they make a free person into a slave."

Gospel of Philip [Eng. translation Joseph Rowe]

[Bill Ryan]

The mountains had bestowed on us their beauties. We adored them with a child’s simplicity and revered them with a monk’s veneration of the divine.

Maurice Herzog, mountaineer

[I am B]

"In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is."

Annie Besant

[pueblo]

"Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly in the air? You have done no better than a bluebottle.
Conquer your heart; then you may become somebody."

- Ansari of Herat