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 "A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world ."
OSCAR WILDE
 

"To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody ."

QUENTIN CRISP
 
 

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding ."

EZRA LOOMIS POUND
 

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves ."

ERNEST DIMNET

"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty ."

GEORGE ELIOT

"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience ."

BEETHOVEN
The Heiligenstadt Testament

"A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man ."

JAMES KELLY

"Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people ."

CHARLES LAMB
 

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them ."

JAMES BALDWIN

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters ."

JACQUELINE BOUVIER KENNEDY ONASSIS

"The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married ."

CYRIL CONNOLLY
 

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished ."

GOETHE
 

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher ."

SOCRATEs
 

"The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate ."

WILL DURANT

"As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious ."

ALBERT SCHWEITZER
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"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all ."

MICHELANGELO

"Doing a thing well is often a waste of time."

ROBERT BYRNE

"Truth; n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance."

AMBROSE BIERCE

"One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth ."

HENRIK IBSEN

"That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false."

PAUL VALÉRY

"Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them ."

ANONYMOUS
 

"Just as the human eye sees only a small part of the light spectrum and the human ear can detect only a fraction of nature's sounds so that which is comprehensible to the human mind is only a small fraction of our reality."

RICHARD

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding ."

FRANCIS BACON
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"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose."

JOHN HALDANE
 

"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."

CICERO

"I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life ."

SIR THOMAS BROWNE
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"The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment. "

MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
 

" The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable." On sex

LORD CHESTERFIELD

"Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice."

ROBINSON JEFFERS

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook ."

THOMAS JEFFERSON

"The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it ."

JOHN GILMORE

"I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him."

LUTHER LASSITER, pool hustler
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice ."

GEORGE ELIOT
 

"I was a stricken deer that left the herd long since."

WILLIAM COWPEr

"On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light ."

FREYA STARK
 

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I..... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

ROBERT FROST
The Road Not Taken

"Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination."

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
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"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time ."

JAMES THURBER

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity ."

SCHOPENHAUER

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."

VOLTAIRE
 
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"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all."

GEORG CHRISTOPHER LICHTENBERG

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

OSCAR WILDE

"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

JONATHAN SWIFT
Thoughts on Various Subjects

"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."

JASSAMYN WEST

"I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare ."

T. S. ELLIOT

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
     Albert Einstein
 

"Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action ."

GOETHE
 

"Nothing can be made foolproof because fools are so ingenious ."

ANONYMOUS
 

"What more felicitie can fall to creature

  Than to enjoy delight with libertie ."

EDMUND SPENSER
 

"While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."

CHARLES EVANS HUGHES
1908 U.S. Supreme Court Justice

" Society attacks early when the individual is helpless."

B. F. SKINNER
 

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary ."

H. L. MENCKEN
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"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself ."

ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The Federalist Feb.8, 1788
 

"Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise ."

FRANCIS BACON

"When small men cast long shadows the sun is going down ."

VENITA CRAVENS

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

VOLTAIRE

"Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked."

ROBERT D. SPRECHT

"To live outside the law you must be honest ."

BOB DYLAN

"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

"The art of government is the organization of idolatry ."

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
 

"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry ."

ANONYMOUS

"In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness ."

TACITUS

"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality ."

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."

ERIC HOFFER
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"Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."

MARK TWAIN

"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface ."

ALDOUS HUXLEY
 

" . . .the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free."

MENCKEN

" if you want to get laid go to college,

if you want to learn something go to the library ."

FRANK ZAPPA

"Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated ."

ANONYMOUS

"Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints ."

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education ."

PAUL KARL FEYERABEND

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

ARISTOTLE

"Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue more clever than another ."

OSCAR WILDE

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education ."

MARK TWAIN
 
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught ."

OSCAR WILDE

"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student ."

GEORGE ILES

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest ."

CONFUCIUS

"Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use ."

ANONYMOUS
 

"Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete ."

RAOUL VANEIGEM
 

" . . . the original quest for salvation has been transformed into one for consumption without end through the mechanisms of the science, technology and capitalist economy created by the modern cogito: "I consume therefore I am ."

DANIEL R. WHITE and GERT HELLERICK
Nietzsche at the Mall: Deconstructing the Consumer

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat ."

JANE WAGNER

"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay ."

BRIAN ALDISS
 

"Irony is the hygiene of the mind ."

ELIZABETH BIBESCO
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"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding ."

AGNES REPPLIER

"Whom the gods would destroy, they first call 'promising' ."

CYRIL CONNOLLEY

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror ."

OSCAR WILDE

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices ."

WILLIAM JAMES
 

"Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you ."

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
 

"Those who cannot think for themselves are emotionally unequipped to spend time alone ."

-ANONYMOUS
 

"Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent ."

JOHN DEWEY

"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality ."

H.L. MENCKEN
 

". . . the inability to view the validations of unpopular views, because the focus of their casuistry has been reduced to mindless invalidation ."

ELI KHAMAROV
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"...Two and two are four . Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane ."

GEORGE ORWELL
1984

"The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime ."

EMMA GOLDMAN

"Do as most do, and men will speak well of you ."

THOMAS FULLER
 

"Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing ."

GEORGE ORWELL

" Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

AMBROSE BIERCE
 

"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen."

ALDOUS HUXLEY

"The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness ."

JEAN COCTEAU

" The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently ."

NIETZCHE

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom ."

ALBERT EINSTEIN

"The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up ."

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time ."

JOHN STUART MILL
On Liberty
 
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"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting ."

E. E. CUMMINGS

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform ."

MARK TWAIN

"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away ."

RAYMOND HULL
 

"Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence ."

ROBERT D. RICHARDSON
 

"A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach ."

SENECA

"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
 
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"Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do."

BERTRAND RUSSELL

"To think is to differ ."

CLARENCE DARROW

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking ."

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH

"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth ."

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
 

"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts ."

BORIS YELTSIN

"What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers ."

LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness ."

JOHN CHEEVER
 
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"Art.....the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence ."

ANONYMOUS

"Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil ."

ALDOUS HUXLEY
 

" The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly an feel nobly ."

ALDOUS HUXLEY
 

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him ."

JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY

"So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal ."

WILLIAM BURROUGHS
 

"The eagle soaring majestically

Beholds the lion prowling

From now until eternity

The philosopher shall be howling

And the hoi polloi shall be scowling "

- ANONYMOUS
 

"More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarrette."

from Radio ad circa 1948

"Here I sit

so broken hearted

come to shit

but only farted ."

grafitti on bathroom wall
 

"I never saw a purple cow,

I never hope to see one;

But I can tell you anyhow

I rather see than be one ."

GELETT BURGESS
 

"A crusader's wife slipped from the garrison

And had an affair with a Saracen.

She was not oversexed,

Or jealous or vexed,

She just wanted to make a comparison. "

ANONYMOUS
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"It's astonishing how many people equate the simple posession of wealth with intelligence and dignity ."

ANONYMOUS

"Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed."

CONFUCIUS

"Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire ."

ANWAR EL- SADAT

"Adolescence is a dirty joke God played on humanity ."

-ANONYMOUS

"Natural selection is a euphemism for behaving like an asshole ."

-ANONYMOUS

"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way ."

FRANKLIN P. ADAMS
 

"Infancy: n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward ."

AMBROSE BIERCE
 

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center ."

KURT VONNEGUT
 

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule ."

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

"To be great is to be misunderstood ."

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes ."

JAMES BALDWIN

"What do you take me for, an idiot?"

GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE
when a reporter asked him if he was happy
 

"The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined ."

T.S. ELIOT
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"Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant ."

VINE DELORIA JR.

"I will not criticize another until I have walked a mile in his mocassins ."

native american quote

"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do."

VICTOR HUGO

"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing ."

THOMAS EDISON
 
 

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing ."

THEODORE ROOSEVELT
 

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor ."

VINCE LOMBARDI
 
 
 

 

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