Quotes to make you look at life sideways and to inspire thought. Enjoy...
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
"We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
"Is fiction reality??"
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning how to dance in the rain."
"Why is there something rather than nothing?"
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats."
"Words are pegs to hang ideas on."
A man who can't visualise a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot."
"Failure is always an option".
"Letters are signs for sounds."
"Writing and Drawing enlarges the landscape of the mind."
A child is made known to itself by its name."
"Therefore place is in a place - and so on - ad infinitum."
"The answer may be "yes" or "no" depending on the interpretation."
"Art is pattern informed by sensibility."
"Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes."
"Logic is the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human brain."
"I am my brains publisher."
"Two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do..."
"It is difficult to say what is possible,
for the dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the realities of tomorrow".
"It is always alright in the end and if it's not alright it's not the end!"
"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams..."
“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.”
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
"Music is noise submitted to order by wisdom."
"The hen is only the egg's way of making another hen."
"Colour is the place where our brains and the universe meet."
"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone."
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."
"Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions."
"You can`t use the bible to prove the bible"
"Minds are like parachutes, they both work best when open. "
"On the first day, man created God."
"god must love stupid people...he created so many!"
"Man fears Time... Time fears the Pyramids..."
"Today, no one wished me a happy birthday. I wasn't suprised, today isn't my birthday."
"In my end is my beginning"
"Love has no form."
"I have an ear ache:
2000 B.C. -Here, eat this root.
1000 A.D. -That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.
1850 A.D. -That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion.
1940 A.D. -That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.
1985 A.D. -That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.
2000 A.D. -That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root."
Feel free to add more and maybe we can build a collection we can do something awesome with one day...
These are some of the quotes from http://www.zeitgeistaustralia.org
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must become the change we want to see in the world" Mohandas Gandhi
"The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson" Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery" Robert G. Ingersoll
"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." Thomas Paine
"Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." Thomas Paine
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." Thomas Paine
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." Thomas Paine
"Human nature is not of itself vicious." Thomas Paine
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." Martin Luther King Jr.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter." Martin Luther King Jr.
"f you don't do your own thinking' others will do the thinking for you, it's called facism" Jacque Fresco
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." Martin Luther King Jr.
"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him." Martin Luther King Jr.
"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true." Martin Luther King Jr.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr.
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King Jr.
"Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality." Martin Luther King Jr.
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence." Martin Luther King Jr.
"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important." Martin Luther King Jr.
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." Mahatma Gandhi
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." Mahatma Gandhi
"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." Mahatma Gandhi
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." Mahatma Gandhi
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." Mahatma Gandhi
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" Mahatma Gandhi
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." Mahatma Gandhi
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Mahatma Gandhi
"Hate the sin, love the sinner." Mahatma Gandhi
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." Mahatma Gandhi
"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." Mahatma Gandhi
"The good man is the friend of all living things." Mahatma Gandhi
"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten." Mahatma Gandhi
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Mahatma Gandhi
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." Arundhati Roy
"The only thing is impossible in the universe is to teach people not to use the word impossible" Eugene Nosko
"Greed and competition are not the result of immutable human temperament ... greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being created and amplified ... the direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive." Bernard Lietaer
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind" Leonardo da Vinci
"Sometimes I think the people are so far ahead of their leaders that the politicians of the world will have to get out of their way and let them have what they wish." R. Buckminster Fuller
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge" Stephen Hawking
"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." Albert Einstein
"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." Albert Einstein
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest" Thomas Paine
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance" Benjamin Franklin
"Brainwashing is a from of irrational conditioning." Jim Jones
"Whenever you hear someone put words like 'democracy' and 'freedom' together - run like hell." Jacque Fresco
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear" Nelson Mandela
"It always seems impossible until its done" Nelson Mandela
"Here is no such thing as part freedom" Nelson Mandela
"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat." Nelson Mandela
He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." Aquinas
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." Oscar Wilde
"The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people" Frank Kent
"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." Albert Einstein
"I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." Stephen F Roberts
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money." Benjamin Franklin
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." Plato
"As long as we remain in a monetary system, most people will never have the money to behave democratically." Jacque Fresco
"Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." Cree Indian Prophecy
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Michelangelo
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I’m from the government and I’m here to help." Ronald Reagan
"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." Samuel Adams
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it." Samuel Johnson
"The US and other Western governments turned a blind eye to Amnesty International reports of widespread human rights violations in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and ignored Amnesty International’s campaign on behalf of the thousands of unarmed Kurdish civilians killed in the 1988 attacks on Halabja. Once again, the human rights record of a country is used selectively to legitimize military actions." Amnesty International
"Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it." Homer
"One day we will look back on the murder of ...animals the same way we look at the murder of men." Leonardo da Vinci
"If you do nothing, rest assured that nothing will happen." Jacque Fresco
http://www.antilect.com/life-metaphors/
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.”
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
“Self-education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”
“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.”
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
“Recompense kindness with kindness, injury with justice.”
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”
“The superior man does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.”
“To correct the biggest misunderstanding of the ages: Treat others as they wish to be treated, not as you wish to be treated.”
“Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.”
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
“Try to become the kind of person others do not normally encounter in this world.”
“Sometimes our minds open up to the enormous possibilities we could achieve, they forget the a moment our own imposed limits. These are the moments to grab and remember and work towards.”
“Our greatest fear should not be that our lives may come to an end, but rather, that they may never begin.”
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