~The Unofficial Wisdom Quotes Wanted Thread – Roast a Bowl and Post a Quote~

[tokin']

It is desire that creates aptitude.

[TheBriManFoScho]

Originally Posted by naku06

playing off of ak's last post:

"lsd, find the questions. shrooms, find the answers."

im gonna play off of this one

"Drugs never gave me the answers, only the questions."

[I_Hate_Pot]

if you are currently tripping, have tripped ,or are going to trip remember this until your next psychedelic experience...it will literally blow your mind.

"The only things in life that make any sense are the things that make absolutely no sense."-I_Hate_Pot

[KingTut]

I've realized that I am getting older, each year music becomes shittier and shittier.

[TheKroNdiZZle]

"You are only as smart as you percieve." lmfao just randomly thought of that outta nowhere, no thinking before hand involved rofl

[TheKroNdiZZle]

The matter of everything comes from the oneness of everything. lol

[imcherokeeangel]

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau

[AK Infinity]

"Testosterone is responsible for many of the wrong turns in human history."

~AK Infinity~

[KingTut]

"Imagine a Glorious Death
Then
Life is a Silhouette"

"Experience a Surreal Balance of Harmony"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cv0NCaKB7A

Plenty of quotes on this, and Stupid ones from hannity too.

[imcherokeeangel]

Originally Posted by AK Infinity

"Testosterone is responsible for many of the wrong turns in human history."

~AK Infinity~

That's a good one! Estrogen is probably responsible for many too...lol

[tabbit]

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)


"I’m not an atheist and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God."
-Albert Einstein


"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism."
(Albert Einstein)


"I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. [He was speaking of Quantum Mechanics and the breaking down of determinism.] My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality."
(Albert Einstein,The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press)


"I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?"
(The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, 2000 p. 208)


"Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is the same as that of the religious fanatics, and it springs from the same source . . . They are creatures who can't hear the music of the spheres."
(The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, 2000 p. 214)


"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know his thoughts. The rest are details."
(The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, 2000 p.202)


"In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support for such views."
(The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, p. 214)


"It is very difficult to elucidate this cosmic religious feeling to anyone who is entirely without it. . . The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it ... In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it."
(The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, p. 207)


"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves."
(Albert Einstein, The World as I See It)


"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
(Albert Einstein, "Religion and Science", New York Times Magazine, 9 November 1930)


"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings."
(Albert Einstein, responding to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein who had sent Einstein a cablegram bluntly demanding "Do you believe in God?" Quoted from Victor J. Stenger, Has Science Found God? 2001, chapter 3.)

(Baruch Spinoza believed God exists only philosophically and that God was abstract and impersonal.[1] Spinoza's system imparted order and unity to the tradition of radical thought, offering powerful weapons for prevailing against "received authority." As a youth he first subscribed to Descartes's dualistic belief that body and mind are two separate substances, but later changed his view and asserted that they were not separate, being a single identity. He contended that everything that exists in Nature (i.e., everything in the Universe) is one Reality (substance) and there is only one set of rules governing the whole of the reality which surrounds us and of which we are part. Spinoza viewed God and Nature as two names for the same reality,[11] namely the single substance (meaning "that which stands beneath" rather than "matter") that is the basis of the universe and of which all lesser "entities" are actually modes or modifications, that all things are determined by Nature to exist and cause effects, and that the complex chain of cause and effect is only understood in part.)


Credit for this post also goes to 'PookztA'.

[Howard]

Couple of Thomas Paine quotes...

"It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes."

"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. "

"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."

And one Einstein...

"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."

[FendallHawkins]

Temporary by-passes may be acquired either spontaneously,
or as a result of deliberate "spiritual exercises," or through
hypnosis, or by means of drugs. Through these temporary bypasses
there flows, not indeed the perception 'of everything that is happening
everywhere in the universe', but something more than, and above
all something different from, the carefully selected utilitarian
material which our narrowed, individual minds regard as a complete,
or at least sufficient, picture of reality.
-Aldous Huxley

[Howard]

Originally Posted by FendallHawkins

Temporary by-passes may be acquired either spontaneously,
or as a result of deliberate "spiritual exercises," or through
hypnosis, or by means of drugs. Through these temporary bypasses
there flows, not indeed the perception 'of everything that is happening
everywhere in the universe', but something more than, and above
all something different from, the carefully selected utilitarian
material which our narrowed, individual minds regard as a complete,
or at least sufficient, picture of reality.
-Aldous Huxley

Nice first post! Welcome to the forums.

[.420.]

BILL HICKS!

“If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.”

“They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference.”

“The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.”


FUCK the Rest, Bill Hicks the best!