Great Quotes II: Source and Context are Key

[ReindeerThistle]

“Obscene is not the picture of a naked woman who exposes her pubic hair but that of a fully clad general who exposes his medals rewarded in a war of aggression; obscene is not the ritual of the Hippies but the declaration of a high dignitary of the Church that war is necessary for peace.”

-Herbert Marcuse

Nicely put, TF.

5) That which can be lost....

...now where's it gone? I had it a minute ago. I'm sure I put it safely over there. Have you had it? Tsk. Can't put anything down round here without it getting nicked!

I would have responded to this post earlier but a rocket landed in my back yard.... says USAF on it.

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[madviking]

"Charlie don't surf!"

- Lt. Col. William "Bill" Kilgore

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

If we scrutinise the intimations of supraphysical worldrealities which we receive in our inner experience and compare with it the account of such intimations that has continued to come down to us from the beginnings of human knowledge, and if we attempt an interpretation and a summarised order, we shall find that what this inner experience most intimately conveys to us is the existence and action upon us of larger planes of being and consciousness than the purely material plane, with its restricted existence and action, of which we are aware in our narrow terrestrial formula.​

Sri Aurobindo

 

[Borachio]

I don't like telephones

Marc Bolan

Spoiler :

Who does, Marc?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Badger: Course you couldn't buy an invite with a diamond the size of a testicle. I've got my hands on a couple.

Badger: Of invites!

From the Firefly episode "Shindig"

 

[cardgame]

My point is this... science.

- Andy Botwin

 

[Gucumatz]

"He may be a son of a , but he's our son of a "

Attributed to practically every US president around. Also works when talking about them

 

[Gucumatz]

"Soviet Union suffers worst wheat harvest in 55 years...

Labor and food riots in Poland. Soviet troops invade...

Cuba and Nicaragua reach troop strength goals of 500,000...

El Salvador and Honduras fall...

Greens Party gains control of West German Parliament...

Demands withdrawal of nuclear weapons from European soil...

Mexico plunged into revolution...

NATO dissolves...

United States stands alone."

- Red Dawn (1984)

*sniffle* They'll never make another like it. Classic.

Hearing something like this makes me think that Goddamn it when will Americans ever learn any history all of Central America couldn't give 2 hoots about communism. Leave us alone and we'll leave you alone!

 

[Borachio]

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem of Shakespeare's. But then I thought, 'Why should I? He never reads any of mine'.

Spike Milligan

 

[JohnRM]

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[c] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[d] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

 

[Borachio]

The only true voyage, the only Fountain of Youth, would be found not in travelling to strange lands but in having different eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another person, of a hundred others, and seeing the hundred universes each of them sees, which each of them is.

Proust

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

The individualistic age of Europe was in its beginning a revolt of reason, in its culmination a triumphal progress of physical Science. Such an evolution was historically inevitable. The dawn of individualism is always a questioning, a denial. The individual finds a religion imposed upon him which does not base its dogma and practice upon a living sense of ever verifiable spiritual Truth, but on the letter of an ancient book, the infallible dictum of a Pope, the tradition of a Church, the learned casuistry of schoolmen and Pundits, conclaves of ecclesiastics, heads of monastic orders, doctors of all sorts, all of them unquestionable tribunals whose sole function is to judge and pronounce, but none of whom seems to think it necessary or even allowable to search, test, prove, inquire, discover.

A.K.Ghose

 

[Dachs]

[Proust quote]

"To think that I wasted years of my life, that I hoped to die, that I had my greatest love affair with a woman who didn't appeal to me, who wasn't even my type!"
-Marcel Proust, Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, vol. 1)

 

[Kyriakos]

Proust

Nice quote about the different perceptions of what surrounds or is in us, Borachio.

I do not agree with it though, since we already face huge problems while at least having the stability to be one person. Having access to really other perceptions (as in the case alluded to by Proust) would probably not help one develop any better understanding of the phenomena he seeks to know about.

I only read a small part of Proust's main work though (only around 200 pages, which for that work is a minor fraction...). It does have an excellent introductory page that i still recall His short stories are interesting as well (thinking of one about a girl that tried to kill herself).

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Nice quote about the different perceptions of what surrounds or is in us, Borachio.

I do not agree with it though, since we already face huge problems while at least having the stability to be one person. Having access to really other perceptions (as in the case alluded to by Proust) would probably not help one develop any better understanding of the phenomena he seeks to know about.

Maybe the way to be more integral yourself is to integrate something of others which is not manifested in you and identification ("the universes...which each of them is")? Only perhaps you dont need to get to it by mental understanding but rather by realisation of psychic oneness?

I only read a small part of Proust's main work though (only around 200 pages, which for that work is a minor fraction...). It does have an excellent introductory page that i still recall His short stories are interesting as well (thinking of one about a girl that tried to kill herself).

I put the dude on my to read list....

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Here is something for Kyriakos to be proud of:

For, eventually, the evolution of Europe was determined less by the Reformation than by the Renascence; it flowered by the vigorous return of the ancient Graeco-Roman mentality of the one rather than by the Hebraic and religio-ethical temperament of the other. The Renascence gave back to Europe on one hand the free curiosity of the Greek mind, its eager search for first principles and rational laws, its delighted intellectual scrutiny of the facts of life by the force of direct observation and individual reasoning, on the other the Roman’s large practicality and his sense for the ordering of life in harmony with a robust utility and the just principles of things. But both these tendencies were pursued with a passion, a seriousness, a moral and almost religious ardour which, lacking in the ancient Graeco-Roman mentality, Europe owed to her long centuries of Judaeo-Christian discipline.

 

[Borachio]

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Proust

 

[ReindeerThistle]

"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

-- from the inside of a cap from a bottle of herbal tea.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes." - Lenin

 

[Traitorfish]

"I was not designed to be forced."

- Henry David Thoreau