The Great Quotes thread

[Raskolnikov]

The swiftest is mind, for it speeds everywhere.
The strongest, necessity, for it masters all.
The wisest, time, for it brings everything to light.

He held there was no difference between life and death.
“Why then,” said one, “do you not die?”
“Because,” said he, “there is no difference.”

To the adulterer who inquired if he should deny the charge upon oath he replied that perjury was no worse than adultery.

To the question what was the strangest thing he had ever seen, his answer was, “An aged tyrant.”

To him belongs the proverb, "Know thyself."

[Bill Ryan]

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

[Vicus]

There are periods in the life of humanity, which generally coincide with the beginning of the fall of cultures and civilizations, when the masses irretrievably lose their reason and begin to destroy everything that has been created by centuries and millennia of culture. Such periods of mass madness, often coinciding with geological cataclysms, climate changes, and similar phenomena of a planetary character, release a very great quantity of the matter of knowledge.

- George Ivanovich Gurdjieff

[Raskolnikov]

They say that great inventions were often discovered by more than one person at the same time, sometimes scores from the four corners (there's a loaded phrase) of the Earth. An idea whose time has come. May be more to this ethernet than meets the eye...

"...periods of mass madness...release a very great quantity of the matter of knowledge."

[Mari]

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese 🧀

luis Bunuel

[Raskolnikov]

[grapevine]

"When I get a letter from the BBC addressed to " Occupier" to pay my licence fee I send it to the Israeli embassy." A great idea.
- Craig Murray -

[Raskolnikov]

[Raskolnikov]

Saturday night edition...

"A cocktail or several, before dinner, enabled me to laugh wholeheartedly at things which had long since ceased being laughable." Jack London

"When I have a martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there’s no holding me." W. Faulkner

"He was a good companion until he drank too much and, at that time, when he was lying, he was more interesting than many men telling a true story." Hemingway

[kfm27917]

“Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.” --- Kurt Vonnegut

[Kryztian]

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
~~~Noam Chomsky

[kfm27917]

"if you poke the Russian bear with a stick, don’t be surprised if he responds."

Nigel Farage

[kfm27917]

If you invite a bear to dance...it's not you who decides when the dance is over.
-Russian proverb

[grapevine]

Loved that kfm. Reminded me of a verse my father used to say:

Algy met a Bear
A Bear met Algy
The Bear was bulgy
The bulge was Algy

According to Google the poem is attributed to Spike Milligan

[Raskolnikov]

"I have often cursed my Creator and my existence.  Plutarch has shown me the path of resignation.  If it is at all possible, I will bid defiance to my fate, though I feel that as long as I live there will be moments when I shall be God's most unhappy creature ... Resignation, what a wretched resource!  Yet it is all that is left to me."

Beethoven, growing deaf in 1801

[Eva2]

Me: Hey God.
God: Hello.....
Me: I'm falling apart. Can you put me back together?
God: I would rather not.
Me: Why?
God: Because you aren't a puzzle.
Me: What about all of the pieces of my life that are falling down onto the ground?
God: Let them stay there for a while. They fell off for a reason. Take some time and decide if you need any of those pieces back.
Me: You don't understand! I'm breaking down!
God: No - you don't understand. You are breaking through. What you are feeling are just growing pains. You are shedding the things and the people in your life that are holding you back. You aren't falling apart. You are falling into place. Relax. Take some deep breaths and allow those things you don't need anymore to fall off of you. Quit holding onto the pieces that don't fit you anymore. Let them fall off. Let them go.
Me: Once I start doing that, what will be left of me?
God: Only the very best pieces of you.
Me: I'm scared of changing.
God: I keep telling you - YOU AREN'T CHANGING!! YOU ARE BECOMING!
Me: Becoming who?
God: Becoming who I created you to be! A person of light and love and charity and hope and courage and joy and mercy and grace and compassion. I made you for more than the shallow pieces you have decided to adorn yourself with that you cling to with such greed and fear. Let those things fall off of you. I love you! Don't change! ... Become! Become! Become who I made you to be. I'm going to keep telling you this until you remember it.
Me: There goes another piece.
God: Yep. Let it be.
Me: So ... I'm not broken?
God: Of course Not! - but you are breaking like the dawn. It's a new day
John Roedel

[Raskolnikov]

“The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal.”

Ah…here is where you get hung up. You can accept “His son,” “offspring,” “likeness,” but you recoil at being called “His equal.” It is too much to accept. Too much bigness, too much wonderment - too much responsibility. For if you are God’s equal, that means nothing is being done to you - and all things are created by you. There can be no more victims and no more villains - only outcomes of your thought about a thing.

I tell you this: all you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.
Do you want your life to truly “take off”? Then change your idea about it. About you. Think, speak, and act as the God You Are.

Of course this will separate you from many - most - of your fellow men. They will call you crazy. They will say you blaspheme. They will eventually have enough of you, and they will attempt to crucify you.

They will do this not because they think you are living in a world of your own illusions (most men are gracious enough to allow you your private entertainments), but because, sooner or later, others will become attracted to your truth - for the promises it holds for them.

Here is where your fellow men will interfere - for here is where you will begin to threaten them. For your simple truth, simply lived, will offer more beauty, more comfort, more peace, more joy, and more love of self and others than anything your earthly fellow could contrive.

And that truth, adopted, would mean the end of their ways. It would mean the end of hatred and fear and bigotry and war. The end of their condemning and killing that has gone on in My name. The end of might-is-right. The end of purchase-through-power. The end of loyalty and homage through fear. The end of the world as they know it - and as you have created it thus far.

So be ready, kind soul. For you will be vilified and spat upon, called names, and deserted, and finally they will accuse you, try you, and condemn you - all in their own ways - from the moment you accept and adopt your holy cause - the realization of Self.

“Why, then, do it?”

Because you are no longer concerned with the acceptance or approval of the world. You are no longer satisfied with what that has brought you. You are no longer pleased with what it has given others. You want the pain to stop, the suffering to stop, the illusion to end. You have had enough of this world as it presently is. You seek a newer world.

Seek it no longer. Now, call it forth.


Conversations with God, Neale Donald Walsch

[Vicus]

Best 1 liner from Plato !

[Kryztian]

[Kryztian]