The Great Quotes thread

[Kryztian]

"I think we are property. I should say we belong to something; that once upon a time this Earth was no-man's land, that other worlds explored and colonised here and fought among themselves for possession, but now it's owned by something; that something owns this Earth. All others warned off." --Charles Fort, 1931

[Franny]

🌟For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
~ Vincent Van Gogh

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"Old age - the only disease you don't look forward to being cured of."
— from Citizen Kane

[pueblo]

"The masses have never thirsted after truth.

They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them.

Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim."

- Gustave Le Bon

[grapevine]

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” - Mike Tyson

[Eva2]

“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan

Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found everyone, myself as well.
- Rumi

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anäis Nin
Catrin Welz Stein - The Bouquet.

The truth will always come out. You can try to suppress truth, you can threaten, punish, enslave, crucify those who dare speak it, you can run from it, try to numb it, silence it, smother it, shame it, ridicule it, throw all manner of lies and half-truths against it.
But in the end, truth will always come out.
Because truth is Life. And it takes courage to speak truth. You may risk losing your livelihood, your relationships, your reputation, your worldly possessions, your friends, your family, even your life. You may be quaking as you speak it, dripping with sweat, nauseous and dry-mouthed and on the verge of fleeing. But in the end you cannot hold it back.
It is more powerful than you. It will outlast you. Outlive you. You were born from it and will return to it. It speaks through you. You are a vessel for truth. And when you know truth and declare it to the Universe and to all who will listen, you may feel the doubt and the guilt and the shame of it too, the terror of abandonment, old thoughts warning you to shut the **** up. But you may feel so alive, too. So on your path. So aligned with your calling. So willing to face the consequences, moment by moment, breath by breath. There is no greater power on Earth No more potent agent for change Than you, awake.
~ Leopold Molensky

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

[Eva2]

Reality outruns apprehension. Our role is not to understand but to appreciate. We have an outstanding ability for resonance of beauty, aesthetic awareness, intuition of truth. The notion that by creating these models of reality which are not acknowledged as models, we betray ourselves down the primrose path to a dreary, dusty death. We take the poetry out of being by the assumption of the mundane, the banality of modernity. The steady flattening of values so that nothing means much, the sense of outrage as a society shifts towards the abyss is muted. This is the heresy of the bad little boys of the 19th century. Nietche, Darwin and Hegel, Schopenhauer. These guys were on a bad trip, they give us a universe devoid of soul out of which fascism is an outcome. Nature is something from which we torment her secrets. The world is created for man to remake in his image not the other way round. Man is in the abyss. We seem abandoned. This is permission for a pathology which ignores the centrality of nature. And this is what we must redeem. A thundering recognition of the symbiotic relationship we have with nature. Nature is full of affection for humanity. Our relationship with the world demands a restoration of natures dominion above and beyond any inflated egotism. We are on the brink, peering into the vast abyss and we are required to shift our core understanding with as much rapidity as our minds can facilitate. The hour is late, the die is cast. Nature wins because it must. Redemption draws near.'
Terence McKenna

[kfm27917]

When you start on the road, the road finds you.
Rumi

[kfm27917]

"Do not compare, do not measure.

No other way is like yours.

All other ways deceive and tempt you.

You must fulfill the way that is in you."

Carl Jung

[kfm27917]

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”

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Joseph Campbell

[norman]

Dr Lee Merritt had this on her green-screen background during the Dangerous Dames chat about the Carlson/Putin interview.

"This is not the end of the world, it's the end of the illusion" - Humberto Braga


( a tad optimistic, maybe )

[kfm27917]

The being of two people can differ from one another more than the being of a mineral and of an animal. This is exactly what people do not understand. And they do not understand that knowledge depends on being. Not only do they not understand this latter but they definitely do not wish to understand it.

- G. I. Gurdjieff

[kfm27917]

Better an inconclusive but profitable Forever War than any other kind.

US Military Industrial Congressional Complex

[Eva2]

The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world."
~ Terence McKenna

[Rosencross]

[kfm27917]

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

William Casey, CIA Director, 1981, when asked what the goal of the agency was

[Kryztian]

"I'm not clever enough to solve the UFO puzzle. There's almost no topic where I can't generate multiple explanations. This is the only topic I've ever met where I can't generate a single explanation for what the hell's going on. Nothing I can think of makes sense."

- Eric Weinstein


from this great interview:

Posted by Miller (here)
Eric Weinstein On UFOs - “There Is Way More To This Story Than We Know”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ufrqdRO7Lj4

(13:33)
"Chris Williamson and Eric Weinstein discuss the latest information leaks on UFOs. What does Eric Weinstein think the UFO phenomenon is? Why does Eric Weinstein believe there is more than what is being told to the public? Has the United States lost control of its airspace according to Eric Weinstein? "

[Kryztian]

A government is never more dangerous than when embarking on a self-defeating or downright suicidal course. —William S. Burroughs

[kfm27917]

Take the right to vote. In principle it is a great privilege. In practice as recent history has repeatedly shown the right to vote by itself is no guarantee of liberty. Therefore if you wish to avoid dictatorship by referendum break up modern society’s merely func­tional collectives into self-governing voluntarily cooperating groups capable of functioning outside the bureaucratic systems of Big Business and Big Govern­ment.

– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, 1958

[kfm27917]

A’ohe pau ka ‘ike i ka halau ho’okahi
– Not all knowledge is learned in one school

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