"Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts,

of life re not only indispensable, but positive hinderances

to the elevation of mankind [the soul]" - HDT
"A man is rich in proprtion to the number of "A simplistic mind is full of answers. It is also a mind that seldom realizes the simple fact that
things which he can afford to let alone" - HDT answers must be preceded by pertinent questions. The person with a simplistic mind looks for inspiration
and knowledge in simplistic theories, mainly in those that confirm his or her preconceptions. Furthermose, he or she
tends to be very active. Hence, we are talking about someone who can be very dangerous indeed." - MMN
"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there is love lacking. The one is the shadow of the other" - CJ
"A friend is a person with whom i may be sincere. Before him, i may think aloud" - RWE

"Discontent is the want of self-reliance, it is infirmity of will" - RWE

"He is great who is what he is from Nature and never reminds us of anyone else" - RWE
"Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist" - RWE

"I share no man's opinions, i have my own" - Turgenev

"...describing plus explaining does not equal understanding" - MMN

"The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other
mysterious uconscious factors than with the conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.
The shoe that fits one pinches another; there is no recipe that suits all cases. Each of us carries his "What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it" - Gustave Flaubert
Suppose that you have studied everything there is - from the anthropological, cultural, psychological, biological,
own life form - an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other." - CJ

"Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, Simplify" - HDT

and biochemical points of view - about the phenomenon of love. You are an erudite. You know everything that can be
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or faraway" - HDT
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable" - CJ known about love, but you wil never understand love unless you fal in love. This principle is valid for all human systems, although it
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imagined,
he will meet with success unexpected in common hours" - HDT
"You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans" - The Cure
is almost always overlooked. In fact, social and economic research seldom goes beyond describing and explaining. Take the case of
"… the principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the
adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the more narrow the margin the greater the adventure),
a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose successful
"The golden rules is there are no golden rules" - George Bernard Shaw poverty, for instance. I dare say that if we have so far been able to eradicate poverty, it is because we know too much about it, without
navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is always exhilarating
to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits. Such stuff I shamelessly confess to you." - PP understanding the essence of its existence" - MMN
"So the Roman Catholic Church is out to Catholicize the world. What of it?
The communists are out to Communize the world and Capitalism is out to capitalize the world.
Let them fight it out amongst themselves. I've got life to live and can't be bothered." - PP

"I must invent my own systems or else be enslaved by other men's" - William Blake

"Nothing to lose and nothing to gain. A man can be as free and happy as he wants to be because
there's nothing to lose and nothing to gain." - Amanda (TR) "Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved
after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages" - Proust

"I perceive the teachings of the world as the illusions of magicians." - Buddha
"One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a
stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier" - Gustave Flaubert

"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said" - Santayana
"If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft;
do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads" - Nietzsche

"He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing" - Oscar Wilde

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive cold bear it: it would be hell on earth" - GBS

"But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom;
to that which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.
He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding
our lives: to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain." - Joseph Conrad

"I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and i regret that
God has not given me the strength to be one" - Chekhov

"An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes" - Checkhov""

"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed,
the most impossible of conclusions" - Santayana

"I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth i should decline,
or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty" - Santayana

"Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us
as many worlds as there are original artists" - Proust

"Let your soul gravitate to the love y'all" - Will.I.Am

"Now we are being herded into the nineties, which looks like it is going to be a true generation of swine,
a decade run by cops with no humor, with dead heroes, and diminished expectations, a decade which will
go down in history as The Gray Area. At the end of the decade, no one will be sure of anything except that
you must obey the rules, sex will kill you, politicians lie, rain is poison, and the world is run by whores. These
are terrible things to have to know in your life, even if you're rich." - HST

"Having the fewest wants, i am closest to the Gods" - Socrates

"And to my mind there is not the faintest prospect of any enduring improvement in human affairs until a larger
minority than at present, or in the past, decides that it is worthwhile to bring about this change of mind within
itself. The most one can hope to do by means of social reform and rearrangement of economic and political
and educational patterns is to remove some of the standing temptations towards remaining with mind unchanged.
We pray to be delivered from temptation, because experience shows that, if we are tempted often and strongly
enough, we almost inevitably fall. A social rearrangement which shall remove some of the current temptations
towards power-lust, covetousness, emotional incontinence, mental distraction, uncharitableness and pride will
make it a little easier for the individual man and woman to achieve their final end. The social function of the artist
or intellectual, as I see it, is to suggest means for mitigating the strength of the temptations which, now and in the
past, the social order has forced upon the individual, luring him away from his true end towards other, necessarily
self-stultifying and destructive goals." AH

"One must be careful to reject here most of the talk about the technological problems of lengthening life and medical care,
and ecology and poverty, food, and so forth, by stressing as strongly as possible that these are amoral questions in the sense
that these questions could just have easily been raised in Hitler's cabinet if he had won the war. Longer life spans, better fabrics,
better shoes, and the like are purely technological problems that have nothing to do with ultimate values, morals, and ethics." - AM

"And when my mind is free

You know a melody can move me
And when I'm feelin' blue
The guitar's comin' through
To soothe me" - Dobie Gray
"I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes." - Buddha

"By not contriving, he retains

the harmony of his inner world,
and so remains at peace within himself." - Lao Tzu

"I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles." - Buddha

"I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags." - Buddha

"...and not, when i came to die,

discover that i had not yet lived" - HDT