“Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.”–Mort Sahl, as quoted by Lewontin (2000).
[size=150]The deepest sexual penetration is really but a shadow of the way in which the Universe may penetrate us if we but allow it by sitting quietly and trustingly before this Universe. [/size]
ARCTURUS RISING (me)
[size=150]Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll gladly listen.Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively,but don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect you don’t understand.[/size]
[size=150]-Unk.[/size]
[size=150]Faith and hope will always cancel out experience and guide one back into the old track to repeat the same old mistakes.[/size]
[size=150]–Unk[/size]
[size=150]The truth is this. When a man is riding by night through this desert and something happens to make him loiter and lose touch with his companions - he hears Spirits talking in such a way that they seem to be his companions. Often these voices make him stray from the path, so that he never finds it again.[/size]
[size=150]- Marco Polo, The Travels [/size]
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
[size=150]A wise man has doubts even in his best moments. Real truth is always accompanied by hesitations. If I could not hesitate, I could not believe[/size]-
Henry David Thoreau
[size=150]The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” [/size]
Pablo Picasso