Quotations
“These quotes are taken from books, readings, publications, media, and people, both known or otherwise. I started physically writing down passages that made an impact on myself sometime beginning in 2009, in order to remember them better. At this point this has turned into thousands of quotes, that have all integrated themselves into my life and artwork.” – Bardos
– Many of these quotes are centuries old and, because of the times, directed specifically towards men. Instead of changing their words, we’ll safely assert they’re speaking for all people. –
“Alas! When the uncertain experiencing of Reality is dawning upon me here, with every thought of fear or terror or awe for all set aside, May I recognize whatever visions appear as reflections of mine own consciousness;
May I know them to be of the nature of apparitions in the Bardo; When at this all important moment of opportunity of achieving a great end, May I not fear the bands of Peaceful and Wrathful Deities, mine own thought-forms.”
-Tibetan Book of the Dead, English Translation
“A dream you dream alone may be a dream, but a dream two people dream together is a reality.”
-Yoko Ono
“Tea is in my opinion a phantasticum, coffee an energeticum – tea therefore possesses a disproportionally higher artistic rank. I notice that coffee disrupts the delicate lattice of light and shadows, the fruitful doubts that emerge during the writing of a sentence. One exceeds his inihibitions. With tea, on the other hand, the thoughts climb genuinely upward.”
-Ernst Jünger
“All of humanity’s problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
– Blaise Pascal
“On the contrary, it is words that are vague. The reason why the thing can’t be expressed is that it’s too definite for language.”
– Perelandra
The Space Trilogy
C.S. Lewis
“I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000 step process.”
– Thomas Edison
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
– Albert Einstein
“Only the wisest and dumbest of men never change.”
– Fortune Cookie
“Tea is in my opinion a phantasticum, coffee an energeticum – tea therefore possesses a disproportionally higher artistic rank. I notice that coffee disrupts the delicate lattice of light and shadows, the fruitful doubts that emerge during the writing of a sentence. One exceeds his inhibitions. With tea, on the other hand, the thoughts climb genuinely upward.”
– Ernst Jünger
“All men naturally desire to know.”
– The Metaphysics
Aristotle
“He who fights too long against dragons, becomes a dragon himself.”
– Frederick Nietzsche
“It is an undeniable fact that any given number is not merely one more than the previous number and one less then the subsequent number, but is an independent individual idea, a thing in itself, a spiritual, moral and intellectual substance, not only as much as, but a great deal more than, any human being. Its merely mathematical relations are indeed the laws of it’s being, but they do not constitute the number, any more than the chemical and physical laws of reaction in the human anatomy give a complete picture of a man.”
– Book of Thoth
Aleister Crowley
“See. It’s not just a question of size. If you can’t handle your weapon… Its nothing more than baggage.”
– Berserk I
Kentaro Miura
“He’s kind of, you know, a Mr. Magoo on acid, if you will. He’s just tripping his way through life, and circumstances happen. He opens one door and then plummets nine stories but somehow or other lands on a trampoline and goes to another floor.”
– Bill Minutaglio describing Timothy Leary
“It is the business of the future to be dangerous. The major advances in civilization are processes that wreck the societies in which they occur.”
– Alfred North Whitehead
Adventures + Ideas
“A person will desire any object so long as he is convinced that it is desired by another person whom he admires.”
– René Girard
“That is not creative. You always know the creative because it is revealed openly. Concealment betrays the existence of another force entirely.”
– God Emperor of Dune
Dune Series
Frank Herbert
“The counterfeit ever guarantees the true.”
– Alice A Bailey
“The best way to learn is to teach.”
– Frank Oppenheimer
“The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assassinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite of this clear record, an amazing number of people have begun to scoff at the possibility of conspiracy at work today. They dismiss such an idea merely as a ‘Conspiratorial View’.”
– G. Edward Griffin
“Perhaps fifteen of his paintings survive, the small number because of his constant, and frequently disastrous, experimentation with new techniques, and his chronic procrastination.”
– About Leonardo Da Vinci
Wikipedia
Original Source Unknown
“You can tell the size of the man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
– Adlai E. Stevenson
“If you are not in danger do not fight.”
– Sun Tzu
“Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky.”
– Ojibwe Saying
Seen on ‘The Sopranos’
“Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise; risking more than others think is safe; dreaming more than others think is practical; and expecting more than others think is possible.”
– Unknown
“In many ways the functionaries were like children. Often they could be so deeply offended by the merest trifle — unfortunately, K.’s behavior could not be classed as a trifle — that they would stop speaking even to old friends, give them the cold shoulder, and work against them in all imaginable ways.”
– The Trial
Franz Kafka
“We are born from fire.”
– Elder Echo
“What sort of space is that which seperate a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much closer together (nearer to one another).”
-Walden
Henry David Thoreau
“Even so large as the universe outside is the universe within the lotus of the heart. Within it are heaven and earth, the sun and the moon, the lightning and all the stars. whatever is in the macrocosm is in the microcosm also.”
-Chandogya Upanishad
“He fled the light and the knowledge the light implied, and so came back to himself. Even so do the rest of us; even so the best of us.”
– The Gunslinger
The Dark Tower Series
Stephen King
“The only escape is forward.”
– Terence Mckenna
“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to innitiate a new order of things.”
– Niccolo Machiavelli
“A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.”
– Rembrandt
“I’d rather be hated for who I am then loved for who I am not.”
– Kurt Cobain
“This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and witheld permissions twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I’ll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace…”
– Royal Tart Toter
Adventure Time
“Sure, negative experiences do have benefits: loss opens the heart, remorse provides a moral compass, anxiety alerts you to threats, and anger spotlights wrongs that should be righted.”
– Buddhas Brain
“And if any skillful minister shall apply force to nature; and, by design, torture and vex it in order to its annihilation, it, on the contrary, being brought to this strange necessity, changes and transforms itself into a strange variety of shapes and appearences; for nothing but the power of the Creator can annihilate it or truly destroy; so that, at length, running through the whole of transformation and completing its period, it in some degree restores itself if the force be continued.”
– Francis Bacon
The Philosophers Stone
Israel Regardie
“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody.”
– V For Vendetta
Alan Moore, David Lloyd
“Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.”
– Unknown
“The white lines in the middle of the road, that’s the worst place to drive.”
– They Live
John Carpenter
“Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“7 times out of 10, we listen to music at night, hence the title of this program. The word maraud means to loot. In this case we maraud your ears.”
– Award Tour
A Tribe Called Quest
“Competition is a sin.”
– John D. Rockefeller
“Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job security.”
– ‘Bene Gesserit Coda’
Chapterhouse: Dune
Dune Series
Frank Herbert
“Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.”
– Sophocles
“From space, it seems an abstraction, a magicians trick on a darkened stage. And from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive. It first appeared in the Sea almost four billion years ago in the form of single-celled life. In an explosion of life spanning millions of years natures first multicellular organisms began to multiply. And then it stopped. 440 million years ago a great mass extinction would kill off nearly every species on the planet, leaving the vast oceans decimated and empty. Slowly, plants began to evolve, then insects, only to be wiped out in the second great mass extinction upon the Earth. The cycle repeated again and again, reptiles emerging, independent of the sea, only to be killed off. Then dinosaurs struggling to life, along with the first birds, fish and flowering plants, their decimations Earth’s fourth and fifth great extinctions. Only 100,000 years ago, homo sapiens appear… Man. From cave paintings to the Bible to Columbus to Apollo II, we have been a tireless force upon the Earth and off, cataloguing the natural world as it unfolds to us. Rising to a population of over five billion people, all descended from that original single cell- that first spark of life. But for all our knowledge, what no one can say for certain is what or who ignited that original spark. Is there a plan, a purpose or a reason to our existence? Will we pass, as those before us, into oblivion, into the sixth extinction that scientists warn is already in progress?”
– Dana Scully
X-Files
(Season 6 Episode 22)
“And never for each other shall we feel, till we have sympathy with nature in her forms inanimate, with objects such as have no power to hold articulate language. In all forms of things there is a mind.”
– Wordsworth
“When I was 5 years old, my mother told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happpy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life.”
– John Lennon
“Analysis is essential, but the eye and brain must restore what they have dissected to the active phenomenon and reintegrate it with the complex reality so as to see it again in the nexus in which it is alone existent.”
– Cymatics
Hans Jenny
“Because of the one-pointed time awareness in which the conventional mind remains immersed, humans tend to think of everything in a sequential, word-oriented framework. This mental trap produces very short-term concepts of effectiveness and consequences, a condition of constant, unplanned response to crises.
– Liet Kynes,
The Arrakis Workbook
Children of Dune
Frank Herbert
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