The Great Quotes thread

[Icare]

"Some are influenced by the love of wealth while others are blindly led on by the mad fever for power and domination, but the finest type of man gives himself up to discovering the meaning and purpose of life itself. He seeks to uncover the secrets of nature."


Pythagoras

[Icare]

"Remember, YOU are immortal with all the abilities of an immortal being (despite ALL the limitations religion and society would like to place on you).
You WILL come to your full potential after your Final lncarnation is complete. Then you will look back on much of your incarnational experiences and smile at how there was so much opposition to you discovering your True Self.
Your Higher Self will NEVER abandon you. Your Higher Self is the only being you can fully trust, not some non-existent mythological beings created to keep you from regaining your power.
Push away the noise and the external.
Know that you are loved and watched over by you, your Higher Self. Look within for who you REALLY are."

From: The author, Matrix 5, Gold Edition, published by V. Valerian

[Ewan]

Can't find a source for this...

The law should be the lowest bar for your morality and your ethics.

(leaving aside the law is frequently an ass and recently written ones are probably corrupt)

[Kryztian]

Your rulers do not care what race you are. They do not care if you are gay, transgendered or nonbinary. They do not care how many bullets you are allowed to have in your gun. They do not care if you are allowed to have an abortion or not. They do not care whether you are racist, sexist, ageist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic or fatphobic. They do not care about diverse representation in politics or media, and they do not care about any lack thereof. All they care about is that we all keep thinking, speaking, working, consuming and voting in ways which keep them rich and powerful and keep us poor and powerless. And they will happily keep us arguing as intensely as possible about the things they do not care about so that we don't turn our attention to the things they do care about.

--- Caitlin Johnstone

[Isserley]

“When evil comes disguised as progress, celebrated in ignorance as righteous, when the truth triggers vitriol and disgust, as the good are slandered and silenced, and when the sick are hailed as heroes, while our the natural state of things is ridiculed, then truly we are in dangerous times.”

– Maajid Nawaz

[Seeclearly]

"Nature loves courage. You make the commitment
and nature will respond to that commitment by
removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible
dream and the world will not grind you under, it will
lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these
teachers and philosophers who really mattered,
who touched the alchemical gold, this is what
they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the
waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself
into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed."
Terence McKenna

[Icare]

"Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking - and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority."


Erich Fromm (1900-1980)

[Matthew]

Life is precious, and tomorrow isn't guaranteed. Today, I want to thank all the amazing, beautiful people in my life for always being there for me, I'm so very grateful to know you.

Giles Paley-Phillips
source: the internet

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[Ewan]

Here’s a toast to Alan Turing
born in harsher, darker times
who thought outside the container
and loved outside the lines
and so the code-breaker was broken
and we’re sorry
yes now the s-word has been spoken
the official conscience woken
– very carefully scripted but at least it’s not encrypted –
and the story does suggest
a part 2 to the Turing Test:
1. can machines behave like humans?
2. can we?”

― Matt Harvey (No idea who he is).

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“A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.”
― George Orwell

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What I was actually hunting for, and failing to find as per usual, was a quote by, I believe, an American General that went roughly like this....

"We fought WWI in Europe, we fought WWII in Europe, and if you suckers let us we will fight WWIII in Europe too!"

(In response to Alexander Mercouris suggesting Europe is terrified America pulls out of the Ukraine backing leaving them to it.)

[Bill Ryan]

The world is made up of three kinds of people: wise men, knaves, and fools. Wise men aim to do what is right and do it. Knaves mean to do what is wrong, and do it. And the fools are willing to do either right or wrong depending upon which is the more popular.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1970

[Tintin]

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"I'm accident-prone. I've been in shipwrecks, car crashes, fires, floods and tornadoes. I've had every disaster but bubonic plague and a husband."
~ Edith Russel (Titanic survivor)

[Icare]

''Through this ever evolving consciousness over ages and aeons in the Omniverse, we learn that our beliefs are but relative explanations to satisfy our limited understanding to which we are emotionally
attached.

In the bigger picture of the Multiverse and the greater equation of eternity, our beliefs are only altered versions of the reality, partially filtered by our limited perceptions and conceptions.

Beliefs are thus, only relevant in the measure they influence our behaviors, attitudes and actions, and their results."


from chapter 46 of "The Sasquatch Message to Humanity: Conversation With Elder Kamooh"

[Tintin]

"If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell."

- Thomas Merton

[Matthew]

❝The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.
One word of truth outweighs the world.❞

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn.

[Michi]

I learned, the best way to teach is to let her/him do it ...

[Miller]

Inspired by Exomatrix post https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...23#post1561123 #55

[Tintin]

"The reporter’s task, is to find a way of weaving these threads of unreality into a fabric that the reader will not recognize as entirely unreal.”

- Daniel J. Boorstin: from The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America published 1962

[Eva2]

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.

Sun Tzu

[norman]

"We're Going To Do A Mass Experiment & See What Happens When You Tell People The Truth"


RFKjr (2023)