"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." ~ William Blake
 

"Speech is great, but silence is greater." ~ Thomas Carlyle

"Out, out, brief candle, 

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury

Signifying nothing." ~ William Shakespeare

"The Kingdom of Ends has a population of one." ~ David Pugmire

"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much." ~ Walter Lippmann

"Reality is negotiable." ~ Tim Ferriss

"I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right of saying it." ~ Voltaire

 

"Time is very slow for those who wait

Very fast for those who are scared
very long for those who lament

Very short for those who celebrate  

But for those who love time is eternal" ~ William Shakespeare 

 

"Names preserve the dignity of Appearance. F. said: Science begins in coarse naming, a willingness to disregard the particular shape and destiny of each red life, and call them all Rose." ~ Leonard Cohen

"We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Quick now, here, now, always,
A condition of complete simplicity,
And all shall be well,
And all manner of thing shall be well." ~ T.S. Eliot 

"The Disciple" - Oscar Wilde

"When Narcissus died the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, and the Oreads came weeping through the woodland that they might sing to the pool and give it comfort.

And when they saw that the pool had changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, they loosened the green tresses of their hair and cried to the pool and said, 'We do not wonder that you should mourn in this manner for Narcissus, so beautiful was he.'

'But was Narcissus beautiful?' said the pool.

'Who should know that better than you?' answered the Oreads. 'Us did he ever pass by, but you he sought for, and would lie on your banks and look down at you, and in the mirror of your waters he would mirror his own beauty.'

And the pool answered, 'But I loved Narcissus because, as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored.'" ~ Oscar Wilde

"He showed me more, a little thing, the size of a hazel-nut, on the palm of my hand, round like a ball. I looked at it thoughtfully and wondered 'what is this?' and the answer came, 'it is all that is made'. I marvelled that it continued to exist and did not suddently disintegrate; it was so small." ~ Julian of Norwich
 

"We're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside." ~ Allen Ginsberg

"If the Sun & Moon should doubt. They'd immediately Go out." ~ William Blake

"People are suns, not moons." ~ Oscar Wilde

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet." ~ William Shakespeare

"If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark." ~ William Shakespeare 

"It is not the future which surprises me in the present leading to it, it is the past which surprises me in the future I am discovering." ~ Eric Mechoulan

"Life is too short, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly." ~ Anonymous

"Everything is OK in the end, if it's not OK, then it's not the end." ~ Anonymous

"Never be afraid to try; remember... amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic." ~ Anonymous

"Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon." ~ Anonymous

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

"Your life is your message to the world. Make it inspiring." ~ Lorrin L. Lee

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." ~ Oscar Wilde

"It is always difficult to know how a culture flows through our veins, and by now I've lost track of how much America flows through mine." ~ Eva Hoffman

"All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype." ~ Barbara Kruger

"Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it." ~ Joe Clark
 

"Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry." ~ William Butler Yeats

"It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe." ~ Anonymous

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." ~ Francis Bacon

Allen Ginsberg - Howl

• "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked/ dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix"
• "who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz" 
• "who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night/ with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls"
•  "yacketayakking screaming vomiting whispering facts and memories and anecdotes and eyeball kicks and shocks of hospitals and jails and wars"
• "who studied Plotinus Poe St. John of the Cross the Book of the Dead telepathy and bop kabbalah because the cosmos instinctively vibrated at their feet in Kansas"
• "who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism"
• "who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy"

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." ~ Fred Allen

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason." ~ Jerry Seinfeld

"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child. We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known." ~ Christianity - New Testament

"We don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or, rather, we get educated out of it." ~ Jim Aitchison

"Everyone taking birth must die and everyone who dies must take another birth." ~ Hinduism - Bhagvad Geeta

"The problem with common sense is that it's not that common" ~ Voltaire

"When worn down by the problems of the world, a quick and simple solution is often to lie on a couch and talk about one's mother to a highly qualified stranger." ~ Nigel Williams

"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Space with no places, time with no duration" ~ Louis Althusser

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting." ~ William Wordsworth