Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas Huxley Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. Thomas Huxley I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. Thomas Huxley <dl><dt class="quote">An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. </dt><dd class="author">Aldous Huxley</dd><dt class="quote"> </dt><dt class="quote">At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. </dt><dd class="author">Aldous Huxley </dd></dl>
"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be obtained. " -Marie Curie Polish scientist and the first person to win two Nobel prizes; along with her husband, Pierre, she discovered radioactivity, which led to radiation treatment for cancer.
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." ~William Dement~
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.You are not your job. You are not the money in your bank account. You are not the car you drive. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. -Tyler Durden.
A minister, the Rev. John Schwabenland, once caught my Mother in a lie (never found out what), and I walked in on them (I was 5) as my gentle grandfather angrily said - "If the truth won't do, then something is wrong! I was shocked by his anger- I'd never seen him angry before! The words stuck in my mind. -Granny
"By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward." ~Herman Melville - Moby Dick~
When you're young, not much matters. When you find something that you care about, then that's all you got. Telly, from Kids
"The hard truth that remains for everyone is that love will always have buyers remorse, despite its soaring highs its lows are like lead down deep and buried beneath the never will see." -AK Infinity
"There's just too much money here! I mean nobody should be hittin' the lotto for 36 million and then, over here, we got people starvin' on the streets. There's no way some people should have a million-thousand-droople-billion dollars and then there's still people out there starvin'." - Tupac Shakur - "A man is successful if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan - "Officer, I was too wasted to know there was beer at this party!" - My friend -
tomorrow. intersting. iv been waiting for tomorrow, but it will never come now will it? sorry man, i couldnt help myself. great quote tho. "Truth is treason in the empire of lies."- Ron Paul
"Evolution moves towards greater complexity, greater elegance, greater knowledge, greater intelligence, greater beauty, greater creativity, and greater levels of subtle attributes such as love. In every monotheistic tradition God is likewise described as all of these qualities, only without limitation: infinite knowledge, infinite intelligence, infinite beauty, infinite creativity, infinite love, and so on. Of course, even the accelerating growth of evolution never achieves an infinite level, but as it explodes exponentially it certainly moves rapidly in that direction. So evolution moves inexorably towards this conception of God, although never quite reaching this ideal. We can regard, therefore, the freeing of our thinking from the severe limitations of its biological form to be an essentially spiritual undertaking." - Ray Kurzweil
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." ~Archimedes~