QUOTES
"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. For illustration, this present lexicographer is no firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers. He may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many thoughtless spectators."
- Ambrose Bierce
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
- Ambrose Bierce
"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
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
- Oscar Wilde
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
- William James
"A paranoid is a man who knows a little of what's going on."
- William Burroughs
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
- Edward Abbey
"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be."
- Kurt Vonnegut
"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
" It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
- Krishnamurti
"Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgement."
- Duc De La Rochefoucauld
"We monsters are necessary to nature also."
- Marquise De Sade
"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"
- Dante Alighieri
"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars."
- Abbie Hoffman
"The only difference between Dalí and a madman are that Dalí is not mad."
-Salvador Dalí
"I have seen the truth and it makes no sense."
- Anonymous
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."
- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
"If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it."
- Stanley Garn
"The clinching proof of my reasoning is that I will cut anyone who argues further into dogmeat."
- Sir Geoffery de Tourneville
"Only the insane has strenght enough to prosper, and only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane."
- Anonymous
"I will tell you a secret. I have seen the new man. He was intrepid and cruel. I was afraid of him."
- Adolf Hitler
"What luck for rulers, that men do not think."
- Adolf Hitler
"That which we call knowledge is ignorance surrounded by laughter."
- Charles Hoy Fort
"One measures a circle, beginning anywhere."
- Charles Hoy Fort
"Life is a tale told by an idiot, all sound and fury, in the end signifying nothing."
-- William Shakespeare
"Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad."
- Mark Twain
"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."
- Mark Twain
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man."
- Fredrich Nietzsche
"The above is nothing more than my opinions today, had it been the Biblical Truth, your bushes would be on fire."
-- Warren Ellis
"If you consider all the unpleasantness you've encountered while you're alive, it seems improbable it would all come to an end simply because you're dead."
- Peter Hoeg
"Fortunatly we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding."
- Aleister Crowley
"Do what Thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law"
- Aleister Crowley
"Love is the Law, Love under Will"
- Aleister Crowley
"Every man and every woman is a Star"
- Aleister Crowley
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think they'll hate you."
- Anonymous
"All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance."
- Anonymous
"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."
- M. C. Escher
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
- C.S. Lewis
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."
- Rousseau
"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, liscenced, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed;
then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is it's justice; that is it's morality.
- P.J. Proudhon
"Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few."
- David Hume
"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand."
- Charles Schultz
"It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain."
- Hans Kung
"The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow men."
- Robert Ingersoll
"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."
- Buckminister Fuller
"If voting could change anything, it would be illegal."
- Graffiti
"A law is not a law without coercion behind it."
- James Garfield
"The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws."
- Tacitus
"That government is best which governs least."
- Thomas Jefferson
"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rescally individuals of mankind."
- Thomas Paine
".....if you consider these worthy voters as incapable of providing for their own interests, how can they be capable of choosing directors to guide them wisely? How to solve this problem of social alchemy: to elect a government of geniuses by the votes of a mass of fools?"
- Errico Malatesta
"Majority rule is not founded -- anymore than emperor's rule -- on reason or justice. There is no reason or justice in making two men subject to three men. . . Do robbery and murder cease to be what they are if done by ninety-nine per cent of the population?"
- Auberon Herbert
"Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled."
- Count Oxenstierna
"The ideal government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone -- one which barely escapes being no government at all."
- H. L. Mencken
"All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out
and combat originality among them."
- H. L. Mencken
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos."
- H. L. Mencken
The Universe is the Practical Joke of the General at the Expense of the Particular, quoth Frater Perdurabo, and laughed.
But those disciples nearest to him wept, seeing the Universal Sorrow.
Those next to them laughed, seeing the Universal Joke.
Below these certain disciples wept.
Then certain others laughed.
Others next wept.
Others next laughed.
Next others wept.
Next others laughed.
Last came those that wept because they could not see the Joke, and those that laughed lest they should be thought not to see the Joke, and thought it safe to act like Frater Perdurabo.
But though Frater Perdurabo laughed openly, He also at the same time wept secretly; and in Himself He neither laughed nor wept.
Nor did He mean what He said.
-Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies.
Five stoned men were in a courtyard when an elephant entered.
The first man was stoned on sleep, and he saw not the elephant, but dreamed instead of things unreal to those awake.
The second man was stoned on nicotine, caffeine, DDT, carohydrate excess, protein defiancy, and the other chemicals in the diet which the Illuminati have enforced upon the half-awake to keep them from fully waking.
"Hey," he said, "there´s a big, smelly beast in our courtyard."
The third stoned man was on grass, and he said, "No, dads, that´s the Ghostly Old Party in it´s true nature, the Dark Nix of the soul," and he giggled in a silly way.
The fourth stoned man was tripping on peyote, and he said, "You see not the mystery, for the elephant is a poem written in tons instead of words," and his eyes danced.
The fifth stoned man was on acid, and he said nothing, merely worshipping the elephant in silence as the Father of Buddha.
And then the Hierophant entered and drove a nail of mystery into all their hearts, saying, "You are all elephants!"
Nobody understood him.
-Robert Anton Wilson, the Illuminatus! trilogy, Leviathan, p. 591-592.
PERSONAL QUOTES:
"I have a round frisbee."
-A friend of mine, at the end of a long car-ride.
"I don´t want to take the Police!"
-My friend again, being extremely drunk.
Me, being very, very drunk, staring at a small cardboard box lying on the sidewalk:
-"Is that a dog?"
Another friend of mine: -"Yes, it´s a Boxer."
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