Some quotes...
... but don't stop thinking for yourself
... but don't stop thinking for yourself
| There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it. ~ Cicero |
| Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. ~ H.L. Mencken |
| This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~ HH Dalai Lama |
| I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. ~ John Adams |
| The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. ~ Camus |
| Few are those who can see with their own eyes and hear with their own hearts. ~ Albert Einstein |
| Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapot, and it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash! Be water, my friend. ~ Bruce Lee (Jeet Kune Do) |
| It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them---the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. ~ Dostoyevsky |
| Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ~ Edward Abbey |
| Finally consider that even the seeker after knowledge forces his spirit to recognige things against the inclination of the spirit , and often enough also against the wishes of his heart--by way of saying no where he would like to say yes,love, and adore--- and thus acts as an artist and transfigurer of cruelty. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche |
| A man who has a why to live for, can bear almost any how. ~ Viktor Frankl |
| Live simply that other may simply live. ~ Ghandi |
| If I have got false teeth, I trust that I have not got a false conscience. It is safer to employ the dentist than the priest to repair the deficiencies of nature. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| My friends, on the other hand, entrenched themselves more solidly in the little ditch of understanding which they had dug for themselves. They died comfortably in their little bed of understanding, to become useful citizens of the world. ~ Henry Miller |
| All your nonsenses and truths, your finery and squalid options, combine and coalesce into one noise including laugh and whimper, scream and sigh, forever and forever repeating, in any tongue we care to choose, whatever lessened, separated message we want to hear. The Universe says simply, but with every possible complication, 'Existence' and it neither pressures us nor draws us out, except as we allow. It all boils down to nothing, and where we have the means and will to fix our reference within that flux, then there we are. Let me be part of that outrageous chaos... and I am. ~ Ian Banks "The Crow Road" |
| The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does, what problems this really solves. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain |
| See, I think we have to ask ourselves--and this is corny in a way--what are we doing here. And I've become convinced, after a lifetime of asking that question,that we are here to enlarge our souls, light up our brains, and liberate our spirits. ~ Tom Robbins |
| There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo |
This picture is of Mount Hood in Oregon. I took this while on one of many hikes in the
Cascades. It is either from a trail in the Bull Run Watershed, or it is from a trail in the Bull of the
Woods Wilderness. Oregon is a gorgeous state.
Cascades. It is either from a trail in the Bull Run Watershed, or it is from a trail in the Bull of the
Woods Wilderness. Oregon is a gorgeous state.