There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty: the duty to take the consequences.
All men have the right to dig their own graves, and I have the right to sell them the shovels.
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.
-Mary Henle
Hail to thee o risen sun/visible AND invisible/enlighten the world/shine within us/enflame our souls/thou secret sun of the heart/thou art Horus in thy rising/ra in thy glory/and Osiris in thy repose/hail, o great sun! Amen!
If I didn't achieve my goals, that doesn't mean I didn't go about seeking them in a skillful manner.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
-Bill Vaughn
THERE IS NOTHING UN-NATURAL. eVERYTHING THAT EXISTS IS PART OF NATURE, WHICH IS EVERYTHING
tHERE IS NO SUCH THING AS: SUPERNATURAL. just because its wierd to you or you cant understand it doesnt make it outside of nature.
CHAOS DOESNT EXIST. SOMTHING MAY BE OUT OF (ANY OBVIOUS) CONTROL OR MAY BE TOO MUCH TOO COMPREHEND BUT EVERYTHING IN "OBSERVABLE MATERIAL REALITY", EVEN EXPLOSIONS AND RIOTS HAPPEN ACCORDING TO A PHYSICAL ORDER OF SOME SORT.
If you believe that, I wonder what you'll believe when your eventually convinced its a lie.
WORK IN PROGRESS: we're trying to hide another U.F.O. right here, so don't care about us - we're working for you.
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.
-Lewis Thomas
THe alarm goes off. "hurry! They'll be here in a few minutes!"
No, im not breaking into someone's house. I'm breaking into the day.
The wages of sin are death! (of course, After taxes, it's really more of a tired feeling....)
transmute pain into love, love into lust, lust into rain. yeah, make it rain for me please! I'm locked up in a mental hospital because obviously i am out of my fucking mind.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
-H. L. Mencken
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