The Great Quotes thread

[Eva2]

"The reason is that the waking consciousness lives under the influence of Ahriman. Ahriman has great power over our waking consciousness. It is quite different in the case of the sleep consciousness."
- Rudolf Steiner; Dornach, November 22, 1914 (GA 158)

[Raskolnikov]

[Ernie Nemeth]

You can tuna piano, but you can't tuna fish. REO Speedwagon

[Raskolnikov]

[happyuk]

Remember, it isn’t only the good boys who help win the wars. It is the sneaks and stinkers as well.

Winston Churchill

(From Giles Milton's 'Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare', a GREAT read!)

[Raskolnikov]

"Poetry is vocal painting, as painting is silent poetry."
Simonides

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
Plato

[Paul D.]

"We are living in a culture entirely
hypnotized by the illusion of time, in
which the so-called present moment is
felt as nothing but an infinitesimal
hairline between a causative past and
an absorbingly important future. We
have no present. Our consciousness is
almost completely preoccupied with
memory and expectation. We do not
realize that there never was, is, nor will
be any other experience than present
experience. We are therefore out of
touch with reality."
~ ALAN WATTS

[Bill Ryan]

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.

Enoch Powell, 20 April 1968. Powell was a classical scholar, and was quoting directly from a section of Virgil's Aeneid, published in 19 BC.

[Bill Ryan]

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.
This was paraphrased and popularized in the TV series The Wire, in a quote by the character Omar Little:

Come at the king, you best not miss.

[happyuk]

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

Carl Jung

(+ some filler text to counter the "Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters" message I am getting )

[Vicus]

[Raskolnikov]

[Raskolnikov]

[kfm27917]

"You have power over your mind--not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

Marcus Aurelius

from https://www.sott.net/article/493720-...e-of-Adversity

[Kryztian]

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

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[Raskolnikov]

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[Ewan]

Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy,

which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

WB Yeats.