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Those who have taken authority as the truth,
rather than true as the authority.
- Gerald Massey
Those who have taken authority as the truth,
rather than true as the authority.
- Gerald Massey
DianaRose
Jedi Master
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
Stephen Kaggwa
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – and never knowing.
David Viscott
Richard M. Nixon
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
Stephen Kaggwa
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – and never knowing.
David Viscott
Zadius Sky
The Living Force
A humorous quote that was circulating on Facebook - not sure who wrote it up.
Zadius Sky
The Living Force
John F. Schumaker, In Search of Happiness (p.75, 77)
Probably one of the most important things I had to learn was to start to take full responsibility for my actions, only then could I look at the underlying causes for my programs, and start to Work on them. What really stood out for me from the book "Myth of Sanity" was this part. It’s about a guy named Garrett who has multiple personalities, and Dr. Martha Stout asked him the following questions (p.158):
Dr. Stout writes:
Dr. Stout writes:
Here's a little mine of some of my all time favorite quotes...maybe some possible candidates for "Quote of the day" on SoTT
H.D. Thoreau-
Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls — the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes. What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — If you cannot tolerate the planet that it is on? Grade the ground first. If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him ... he will be surrounded by grandeur. He is in the condition of a healthy and hungry man, who says to himself, — How sweet this crust is!
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.
If a thousand [citizens] were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Most men would feel insulted, if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society. Most with whom you endeavor to talk soon come to a stand against some institution in which they appear to hold stock, — that is, some particular, not universal, way of viewing things.
Voltaire-
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
Men who look for happiness are like drunkards who cannot find their house but know that they have one
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
Truly, whoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you unjust. If the God-given understanding of your mind does not resist a demand to believe what is impossible, then you will not resist a demand to do wrong to that God-given sense of justice in your heart. As soon as one faculty of your soul has been dominated, other faculties will follow as well. And from this derives all those crimes of religion which have overrun the world.
Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Thought depends largely on the stomach. In spite of this, those with the best stomachs are not always the best thinkers.
"If God did not exist, He would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same age as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Scottish proverbs-
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
Elbert Hubbard-
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
aphorism of the Virl-ya-
the poor mans need, is the rich mans shame.
Tom Robbins-
Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.
Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.
If you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It's not the tobacco we're after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.
H.D. Thoreau-
Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls — the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes. What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — If you cannot tolerate the planet that it is on? Grade the ground first. If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him ... he will be surrounded by grandeur. He is in the condition of a healthy and hungry man, who says to himself, — How sweet this crust is!
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.
If a thousand [citizens] were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Most men would feel insulted, if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society. Most with whom you endeavor to talk soon come to a stand against some institution in which they appear to hold stock, — that is, some particular, not universal, way of viewing things.
Voltaire-
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
Men who look for happiness are like drunkards who cannot find their house but know that they have one
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
Truly, whoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you unjust. If the God-given understanding of your mind does not resist a demand to believe what is impossible, then you will not resist a demand to do wrong to that God-given sense of justice in your heart. As soon as one faculty of your soul has been dominated, other faculties will follow as well. And from this derives all those crimes of religion which have overrun the world.
Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Thought depends largely on the stomach. In spite of this, those with the best stomachs are not always the best thinkers.
"If God did not exist, He would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same age as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Scottish proverbs-
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
Elbert Hubbard-
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
aphorism of the Virl-ya-
the poor mans need, is the rich mans shame.
Tom Robbins-
Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.
Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.
If you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It's not the tobacco we're after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.
ScarletBegonias
Dagobah Resident
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it." -Salvador Dali 
NewOrleans
Jedi Master
Years ago, someone - out of the blue - gave me this piece of cardboard on which was written some words of wisdom. I have no idea where they came from but I've kept it around my studio ever since - years now. I've always been puzzled where they came from - if anyone knows I'd appreciate a source. The cardboard is all dented up but the words still ring true:
Acknowledge any truth in criticism.
Remain non-judgemental, observant, impeccable and calm.
Avoid becoming distracted by the trivial.
Never attack or defend EGO for that puts you dangerously upon their turf.
The battle is waged for the undecided who deserve an informed choice, not the permanently ignorant.
You cannot override free will.
Never abandon your principles or give up progress for the sake of defense.
Don't hold regrets or grudges.
Always use love.
::::modified for clarity:::
Acknowledge any truth in criticism.
Remain non-judgemental, observant, impeccable and calm.
Avoid becoming distracted by the trivial.
Never attack or defend EGO for that puts you dangerously upon their turf.
The battle is waged for the undecided who deserve an informed choice, not the permanently ignorant.
You cannot override free will.
Never abandon your principles or give up progress for the sake of defense.
Don't hold regrets or grudges.
Always use love.
::::modified for clarity:::
The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning-bug & the lightning.
~Mark Twain
"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made proof-readers."
~Mark Twain
[I only add this one because it reminded me of organic portals vs. "Adamics" and the idea of "Debugging the Universe". Just some stray associative thought.]
~Mark Twain
"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made proof-readers."
~Mark Twain
[I only add this one because it reminded me of organic portals vs. "Adamics" and the idea of "Debugging the Universe". Just some stray associative thought.]
G
Gertrudes
Guest
I just received the book "Character Disturbance" by George K. Simon and, as I often do with new books, opened it randomly at the middle just to read one or two excerpts, and right there came across a few pearls (highlighted by the author):
And just beneath it:
Character Disturbance page 140 said:
And just beneath it:
truth seeker
The Living Force
That quote touches upon why I liked that character so much when I used to watch TNG. To me, Data represents the tendency toward the mechanical in all of us and at the same time the genuine drive to do better.Data said:
Psalehesost
The Living Force
Richard Dolan said: