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Huxley/Camus/Celine grab-bag:

 

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

-Aldous Huxley.

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

-Albert Camus.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

-Huxley.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

-Louis-Ferdinand Celine.

 

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

-Camus.

 

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

-Huxley.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

-Celine.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

-Huxley.

 

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

-Camus.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

-Camus.

 

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

-Camus.

 

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

-Huxley.

 

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

-Camus.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

-Huxley.

 

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

-Camus.

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"hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is, in a certain sense, the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance" -Erwin Schrodinger

 

"if we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one, the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative" -Arthur c. clarke

 

"credo quia absurdum est" (I believe BECAUSE it is absurd) -Tertullian, on faith

 

"more weight" -giles corey ( in the context of being crushed to death by slowly having more and more heavy rocks placed on him in an attempt to coerce a confession to witchcraft. this was his response to "do you have anything to say to save yourself", a.k.a. lying to save his life)

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"Giles Cory suffered this rather than to appeal to his countrymen, as he was fully convinced that he must die anyway, and he was obstinate enough to cheat the gallows. So to avoid giving the prosecution any advantage, he would answer nothing, whereupon he was sentenced to be pressed to death. Hence, refusing to put himself on trial (no trial actually took place). Giles reportedly was a stubborn, fiery man who realized that he would not get a fair trial. By not pleading one way or the other, English law dictated that a person could not be tried, but the penalty for standing mute was "slow crushing under weights" until a plea was forthcoming or the person died. His death was the result of his obstinacy and firmness with scarcely a parallel---certainly not in American annals.

 

On September 17, the Sheriff led Giles to a pit in the open field beside the jail and before the Court and witnesses in accordance with an English procedure of the "Peine forte et dure". They striped Giles of his clothing, laid him on the ground in the pit, placed boards on his chest, six men lifted heavy stones, placing them one by one, on his stomach and chest. Giles Corey did not cry out, which perplexed Sheriff Corwin whose duty it was to squeeze a confession from the old man.

 

After two days, Giles was asked three times to plead innocent or guilty to witchcraft, to which he would say :"more weight."

 

a little more on giles just cause i think its one of the punkest things ever said.

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“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?”

 

-chris rock

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The beats were great at saying things. And then actualizing them.

 

William S. Burroughs:

 


  • "Nothing is true, everything is permitted."
     
     
    "Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing."
     
     
    "The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits."
     
     
    "Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has."
     
     
    "A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."
     
     
    "In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die or boredom."
     
     
    "Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."
     
     
    "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers."
     
     
    "A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering."
     
     
    "Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing."
     
     
    "The only possible ETHIC is to do what one wants to do."

 

 

 

Jack Kerouac:

 


  • "I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
     
     
    "...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets is each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness..."
     
     
    "Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken."
     
     
    "Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time."
     
     
    "No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength."
     
     
    "Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow."
     
     
    "What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?"
     
     
    "Dean took out other pictures. I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered, estabilished-within-the-photo lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless nightmare road. All of it inside endless and beginningless emptiness. Pitiful forms of ignorance."
     
     
    "Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"
     
     
    "What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."
     
     
    "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land."
     
     
    "Oh little Cody Pomeray if there had been some way to send a cry to you even when you were too little to know what utterances and cries are for in this dark sad earth, with your terrors in a world so malign and inhospitable, and all the insults from heaven ramming down to crowd your head with anger, pain, disgrace, worst of all the crapulous poverty in and out of every splintered door of days, if someone could have said to you then, and made you perceive, "Fear life, but don't die; you're alone, everybody's alone. Oh Cody Pomeray, you can't win, you can't lose, all is ephemeral, all is hurt."
     
     
    "We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move."
     
     
    "Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
     
     
    "-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I’d roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity."

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“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?”

 

-chris rock

 

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1. A bore is a person who lights up a room simply by leaving it.

2. A day to come is longer than a year that's past.

3. A first-class will and a second-class brain, will defeat a first-class brain and a second-class will.

4. A flame is not dead until the embers are black.

5. 7. A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

6. A lie is like a snowball; the farther you roll it, the bigger it becomes.

7. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

8. A parent's life is the child's copybook.

9. A Surprise monetary windfall will be accompanied by an unexpected expense of the same amount.

10. A talkative person is seldom over-estimated, someone silent often is.

11. A tree is known by its fruits -not by its roots.

12. A willing helper does not wait to be called.

13. Ability is the power of applying knowledge to practical purposes.

14. Age is in the mind, not in the calendar.

15. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

16. Always investigate before you speculate.

17. Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.

18. Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a Daddy.

19. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.

20. Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.

21. Anything scarce is valuable; praise, for example.

22. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

23. Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder.

24. Before we set our hearts upon anything let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

25. Better late than never.

26. Better to die with honor than to live without it.

27. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt..

28. Common sense is instinct, enough of it is genius.

29. Culture is not a substitute for life, but the key to it.

30. Diplomacy is the art of tranquil fishing in troubled waters..

31. Do not walk through time without leaving evidence of your passage.

32. Don't ever slam a door; you might want to go back.

33. Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

34. Every day is a great day but some are better than others.

35. Every one has three characters: That which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

36. Everyone is guilty of the good they didn't do.

37. Faith is not closing one's eyes to the facts of life, but opening one's eyes to the wonders of them.

38. Few have all they need, none all they wish.

39. Firmness of delivery dates is inversely proportional to the tightness of the schedule.

40. For the ignorant old age is as winter for the learned it is a harvest.

41. Forty is the old age of youth, fifty the youth of old age.

42. Friendship is like a chain easily broken.

43. Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.

44. Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.

45. Give one fish and you feed for a day. Teach how to fish and you feed for a lifetime.

46. Give your tongue more holiday than your hands and eyes.

47. God has given us two hands - one for giving, the other for receiving.

48. Good business never neglects to take expert advice.

49. Happiness is a way of seeing good in everything and everybody.

50. Health is not valued till sickness comes.

51. Health is the foundation of all happiness.

52. Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.

53. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, to have a thankless child!

54. Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

55. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

56. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

57. If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.

58. If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing

59. If we do not know to which port we are steering, no wind is favorable.

60. If you can't be a sun, don't be a cloud.

61. If you think you can - you can.

62. If you want to be original, be yourself-no two people are alike.

63. If you want to kill an idea, get a committee working on it.

64. If you would like to know the value of money go and try to borrow some.

65. It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.

66. It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

67. It is wise to look ahead, but foolish to look further than you can see.

68. It often needs an open mind to keep one's mouth shut.

69. It would be a better world if we spared for others a little of the sympathy we have for ourselves.

70. It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts.

71. Its better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

72. Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.

73. Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish.

74. Knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

75. Laugh and world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone.

76. Laughter lightens the cloudiest day.

77. Life is a short day, but it is a working day

78. Life is made up of getting and giving, and forgetting and forgiving.

79. Live for today.

80. Luck, love and lightning never strike twice in the same place.

81. Many people are born crying complaining and die disappointed.

82. Money lost, nothing lost; honour lost, much lost; courage lost, all lost.

83. Money will buy a pretty dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

84. More precious than gold or silver, happy memories brought to mind

85. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it is also the mother of instalments.

86. Never forget that the darkest hour is only sixty minutes.

87. Never lie for want of news.

88. Never say what time you'll be home, then you can't be late.

89. Never try to appear what you are not.

90. Never was good work done without so much trouble.

91. No man is rich enough to buy back his past. Oscar Wilde.

92. No matter how early you arrive, someone else is in line first.

93. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

94. Nothing is of greater value than a single day.

95. One is nearer God's heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth.

96. One kind word can warm three winter months.

97. One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure in life as laughter.

98. People can take everything away from you except memories.

99. People do not lack strength, they lack will.

100. Praise makes the good feel better and the bad feel worse.

101. Show you care - and others will care for you.

102. Silence is more musical than any song.

103. Silence is one great art of conversation.

104. Some are known by their deeds -others by their mortgages.

105. Some people with open minds let the wrong kind of stuff get in.

106. Some so-called open minds should be closed for repairs.

107. Success is a journey not a destination.

108. Success is a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

109. The art of living is to want less and experience more.

110. The best way to assure tomorrow's market is to make today's quality absolutely dependable.

111. The biggest liar in the world is "they say".

112. The good we stand on is our truth and honesty.

113. The great majority of people exist but do not live.

114. The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

115. The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.

116. The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest can answer.

117. The hand that gives, gathers.

118. The important thing is never to stop questioning.

119. The most expensive component is the one that breaks.

120. The phone call you keep waiting for comes the minute you're out the door.

121. The slogan that leads to success: "Adopt-Adapt-Improve".

122. The straight and narrow path is the only one which does not seem to have a traffic problem.

123. The wise will make more opportunities than they find.

124. The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

125. There are too many people and too few human beings.

126. There is a keystone to every arch; and a combination to every lock.

127. There is no argument equal to happy smile.

128. There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.

129. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

130. They are always right who suspect that they make mistakes.

131. They who commit a mistake and do not correct it commit another mistake.

132. They who work merely because they have to, will never advance.

133. Think before you ink.

134. Think twice before you speak, and then say it to yourself.

135. Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us who do.

136. Those who "get there" do so through their own achievements not through their dreams.

137. Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

138. Those who give - receive.

139. Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go.

140. Time is money - but not when you're doing it in jail.

141. Time passes, memories stay, loved and remembered every day.

142. To a brave heart -nothing is impossible.

143. To love and be loved is the essence of life.

144. Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday - and all is well.

145. Truth is the only thing that cannot be improved upon.

146. Undecided People lose half their life; the energetic double it.

147. Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge.

148. Waste is crime.

149. We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

150. We are all manufacturers making good, making trouble or making excuses.

151. We better serve ourselves by serving others best.

152. We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

153. We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road -they get run over.

154. We never know the love of parents until we become parents ourselves.

155. What benefits a man if he gains a whole world but loses his own soul?

156. When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.

157. When you're down you are not necessarily a failure. It's staying down that makes a failure.

158. Where are the snows of yesteryear?

159. Write it down. The worst ink survives the best memory.

160. You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.

161. You cannot build a reputation on things you are going to do.

162. You'll never know unless you try.

163. You've got to keep going to get anywhere.

164. Your competitor can cut prices, but when you sell personal service he is up against it.

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-loser's visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. -fortune cookie

 

-the step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now. -fortune cookie

 

-if you don't program yourself, life will program you. -fortune cookie

 

-everyone is the architect of his or her own future. -fortune cookie

 

-procrastination is the fear of success. -fortune cookie

 

-if you have a job without aggrevations, you don't have a job. -fortune cookie

 

-venture not all in one boat. -fortune cookie

 

-a man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he gives up. -fortune cookie

 

-don't be discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. -fortune cookie

 

-opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected. -fortune cookie

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