Creative viewing

“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.” ― William S. Burroughs, Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts

“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”― Charles Darwin

A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads. He is the Passenger par excellence: that is, the prisoner of the passage. And the land he will come to is unknown—as is, once he disembarks, the land from which he comes. He has his truth and his homeland only in that fruitless expanse between two countries that cannot belong to him.” ― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

IF uz living in the past?

“Those who look behind.... will never see beyond.” ― Sherry K. White, Walking in the Father's Riches: The Prosperity of Sonship

 

“Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

nature obeys

“They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head.
Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead.
Inside of his head were no candy or prizes,
just a few stray beetles of various sizes.” ―

Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

 

 

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.” ― H.G. Wells [nature obeys it's own rules.... not those made by people]

 

"We all have an expiration date…" ~The Grim Reaper

 

 

Paradise Lost

“They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,
Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate
With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms:
Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon;
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide;
They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

Absurdity

“Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.” ― Ambrose Bierce

MARtin+ObamaNATION-days

[USA]=“Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation by the side of the unforgettable Marquis de Lafayette, there would have been no French proclamation of The Rights of Man. Without his brilliant negotiation of the Louisiana treaty, there would be no United States of America. Without Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, there would have been no Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom, and no basis for the most precious clause of our most prized element of our imperishable Bill of Rights - the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.” ― Christopher Hitchens

YO dumb-ass

“I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa.” ― Britney Spears

 

YO dumb-ass: dont look at me in that tone of voice

“The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.” ― William Blake

inability

 

“The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.” ― Orrin Woodward, L.I.F.E. Living Intentionally For Excellence

“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds them. A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb show: you wonder why he is alive. This discomfort in the face of man’s own inhumanity, this incalculable tumble before the image of what we are, this “nausea,” as a writer of today calls it, is also the absurd.” ― Albert Camus

Fools

“A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds.
'Why?' someone asked him.----'To squeeze out the rain.” ― Idries Shah, Reflections

“He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.” ― Thomas Fuller

greatest prisoners

“The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and The Discourses

A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.” ― Vladimir Bartol, Alamut

panhandler

im back after the holidays

"A panhandler approached me today at the Bus-Station,~"hay can you give me some change"~ my response "hayas you still owe me 10-bucks from last month" shuts em down in there tracks.
“You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.” ― Jonathan Davis

-The moon moves 1.5 inches (3.81 centimeters) farther away from Earth every year.
“I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.” ― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

-Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. - Charles Kuralt

giving

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.” ― George Eliot

purple of Emperors

"he wrapped himself in quotations as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.” ― Rudyard Kipling, Many Inventions

do they count?

"The horror! The horror!” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
[loons of the past -1978-JONEStown Massacre- body count 918, Children and infants = 287]
[do they count?] US jet drops bomb into Afgan Village-9 school kids dead: US soldier goes bezerk kills 16 adults, women and children, etc, etc,?

pointlessness of existence

“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, Macbeth
we live in the age.....The term nihilism is sometimes used in association with anomie to explain the general mood of despair at a perceived pointlessness of existence that one may develop upon realising there are no necessary norms, rules, or laws.[2] Movements such as Futurism and deconstruction,[3] among others, have been identified by commentators as "nihilistic" at various times in various contexts.
“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.” ― José Emilio Pacheco, Battles in the Desert & Other Storie

 

We're all islands............

“We're all islands shouting lies............. to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”― Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed

poisons

“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.” ― August Strindberg

Million monkeys

“We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.” ― Robert Wilensky

Rubbish = mongers

All writing is rubbish.People who try to free themselves from what is vague in order to state precisely whatever is going on in their minds are producing rubbish. The whole literary tribe is a pack of rubbish mongers, especially today.All those who have landmarks in their minds, I mean in a certain part of their heads, in well-defined sites in their skulls, all those who are masters of language,

all those for whom words have meaning, all those for whom the soul has its heights and thought its currents, those who are the spirits of the times, and who have given names to these currents of thought—I am thinking of their specific tasks, and of that mechanical creaking their minds produce at every gust of wind—are rubbish mongers.”― Antonin Artaud

 

Kant = Cans

“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”― Immanuel Kant

Spengler

“To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed”― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, Vol. 2: Perspectives of World History

Turgenev, Smoke

“Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.”― Ivan Turgenev, Smoke

SWEET------http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrcrGEj5ZwM

Nikolai Gogol

“But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeable with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.”― Nikolai Gogol

the lives of others

Good-movie; for all that are interested in Totalitarian regimes-the Stasi, if u have not studied Fascism and Communism u are politically naive..............
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others

Chekhov

“I feel like a donkey, with a stick in my mouth and a carrot up my ass.” ― Anton Chekhov

ROY

 

Tolstoy

“The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Devil

Across the Frontiers

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”― Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers

Tis the season

"Tis the season, fer Friut-Kake, egg-snog, & Nut-Sack-krackin---- Holiday-FUN!"~

PETE Best~Beatles drummer

Hunter

“A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

 

 

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

Candide

“Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.” ― Voltaire, Candide

Alexis de Tocqueville

“Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”― Alexis de Tocqueville

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”― Thomas Jefferson

“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of people towards one another.” ― Sigmund Freud

Totalitarianism

“Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise-- the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in harmony, united by a single common will and faith, without secrets from one another. Andre Breton, too, dreamed of this paradise when he talked about the glass house in which he longed to live. If totalitarianism did not exploit these archetypes, which are deep inside us al

l and rooted deep in all religions, it could never attract so many people, especially during the early phases of its existence. Once the dream of paradise starts to turn into reality, however, here and there people begin to crop up who stand in its way. and so the rulers of paradise must build a little gulag on the side of Eden. In the course of time this gulag grows ever bigger and more perfect, while the adjoining paradise gets even smaller and poorer.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while folks who know much........ say little.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alfred de Vigny

“I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance” ― Alfred de Vigny, Stello

"It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

impressed by how unimpressive

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.”― Joseph Heller, Catch-22