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[Anonymous No.18844482]

I've been collecting quotes over the years and wanted to share some of my favorites, would enjoy reading some of yours as well:
"No one heals himself by wounding another." —Ambrose

"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far reaching consequence of submission to authority." —Stanley Milgram

"You can't wake someone who is pretending to be asleep." —Native American Proverb

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company." —Oscar Wilde

"Moses wanted to turn a tribe of enslaved Hebrews into free men. You would think that all he had to do was to gather the slaves and tell them that they were free. But Moses knew better. He knew that the transformation of slaves into free men was more difficult and painful than the transformation of free men into slaves... Moses discovered that no spectacle, no myth, no miracles could turn slaves into free men. It cannot be done. So he led the slaves back into the desert, and waited forty years until the slave generation died, and a new generation, desert born and bred, was ready to enter the promised land." —Eric Hoffer

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” —Seneca

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong that will be imposed upon them." —Frederick Douglass

"... if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.” —Nietzsche

"The strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must." —Thucydides

"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him." —Ezra Pound

“Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.” —Aesop

"Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?" —Rachel Carson

"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist." —George Carlin

[Anonymous No.18844489]

>>18844482
"[Administration] covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided: men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." —Alexis de Tocqueville ('Democracy in America')

"Man was born to live not to prepare to live." —J. Von Goethe

"Train tirelessly to defeat the greatest enemy, yourself, and to discover the greatest master, yourself." —Shi Su Yan0STTD

[Anonymous No.18844494]

>out of context quotes
Literally self-help.

[Anonymous No.18844495]

>>18844482
"By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms -- elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest -- will remain, but the underlying substance will be a new kind of totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. 'Democracy' and 'Freedom' will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit." —Aldous Huxley

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" —Henry David Thoreau

"Life is slavery if the courage to die is absent" —Seneca

"In a world where home is only a ghost because both parents work, or because of too many moves or too many job changes or too much ambition, or because something else has left everybody too confused to maintain a family relation, I teach students how to accept confusion as their destiny. School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know." —John Taylor Gatto (New York State Teacher of the Year)

"Life is an eternal farewell from the swiftly passing days." -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Anonymous No.18844496]

"Read this every night, finished it in 14 days. Its not that difficult, you don't need any complementary text. Anyone with a high school education should be able to read this. If you really want a challenge then read it in its original language."

[Anonymous No.18844498]

For those who believe, no evidence is necessary.
For those who do not, no evidence will suffice.

[Anonymous No.18844503]

>>18844482
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." —Malcolm Forbes

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.” —Marcus Aurelius

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." —Sun Tzu

"Deception is the knowledge of kings." —Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu

"What is the purpose of 15,000 hours of mass schooling supposed to be? Reading, writing and arithmetic can't be the answer because properly approached those things take less than a hundred hours to transmit — and we have abundant evidence that each is readily self-taught in the right setting and time." —John Taylor Gatto

"Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children" —Malcolm X

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." —Sun Tzu

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the beauty in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you lived here. This is to have succeeded.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson


"In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. We just don’t know what to pay attention to, and often spend our time investigating side issues. In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.” —Yuval Noah Harari

“Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.” —Saint Augustine

"No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams." —Maya Mendoza

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." —Charles De Gaulle

[Anonymous No.18844516]

>>18844498
That's a good one thank you for sharing

>>18844482

"Intellectuals have many skills which enable them to evade the testing of what they believe." —Thomas Sowell

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” —Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out." —Karl Rove (Senior Advisor to George W. Bush)

"Your entire life consists of the present moment." -Eckhart Tolle

"How many adventure films does it take to compensate for a lack of adventure? How many superhero movies must one watch, to compensate for the atrophied expression of one's greatness? How much pornography to meet the need for intimacy? How much entertainment to substitute for missing play?" —Charles Eisenstein

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." —Alice Walker

[Anonymous No.18844523]

>>18844482
"If you put fleas in a shallow container they jump out. But if you put a lid on the container for just a short time, they hit the lid trying to escape and learn quickly not to jump so high. They give up their quest for freedom. After the lid is removed, the fleas remain imprisoned by their own self-policing. So it is with life. Most of us let our own fears or the impositions of others imprison us in a world of low expectations." —John Taylor Gatto

"I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?" —Dave Chappelle


"Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to boredom. This is direct proof that existence has no
real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life? If life—the craving for which is the very essence of our being—were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing." —Arthur Schopenhauer

"It is easier to build strong children then to repair broken men." —Frederick Douglass

“The case for individual freedom rests chiefly on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievement of our ends and welfare depend. It is because every individual knows so little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it. Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.” -Friedrich Von Hayek


people are strange: they are constantly angered by
trivial things,
but on a major matter
like
totally wasting their lives,
they hardly seem to
notice. . . -Charles Bukowski

"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you." -C.G. Jung

"World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation." -Marshall McLuhan

[Anonymous No.18844538]

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
—Edmund in King Lear

[Anonymous No.18844575]

The secret of the art of literary taste, may it not be found to be nothing else than the secret of the art of life itself—I mean the capacity for discovering the real fatality, the real predestined direction of one's intrinsic nature and the refusal, when this is found, to waste one's energies in alien paths and irrelevant junketings?
—John Cowper Powys

The absurd idea that one gets wise by reading books is probably at the bottom of the abominable pedantry that thrusts so many tiresome pieces of antiquity down the throats of youth. There is no talisman for getting wise—some of the wisest in the world never open a book, and yet their native wit, so heavenly-free from "culture," would serve to challenge Voltaire. Lovers of books, like other infatuated lovers, best know the account they find in their exquisite obsessions. None of the explanations they give seem to cover the field of their enjoyment. The thing is a passion; a sort of delicate madness, and like other passions, quite unintelligible to those who are outside. Persons who read for the purpose of making a success of their added erudition, or the better to adapt themselves—what a phrase!—to their "life's work," are, to my thinking, like the wretches who throw flowers into graves. What sacrilege, to trail the reluctances and coynesses, the shynesses and sweet reserves of these "furtivi amores" at the heels of a wretched ambition to be "cultivated" or learned, or to "get on" in the world!
—John Cowper Powys

[Anonymous No.18844590]

>>18844538
>>18844575
Beautiful thank you so much >>18844482
"Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when
two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. . . . There
are times when a whole generation is caught in this way
between two ages, two modes of life, with the consequence
that it loses all power to understand itself and has no stand-ard, no security, no simple acquiescence." —Hermann Hesse

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. -Charles Bukowski

"Some modern intellectuals are so poisoned by statistical thinking that they are convinced they do not matter, they are just casual existences, there are millions of people like themselves. Such people come into analysis and tell their tragic life history in the most casual manner. One man even said to me, "But you must hear such stories every day." He believed his tragedy would not affect me and assumed that I would deal with it only intellectually. He did not want me to be shaken by his tragedy and did not appreciate it when I took his life seriously, because then he also would have to take it seriously. So people make a joke in such cases and laugh about themselves. He suffers from intellectual irony, with which he can keep away all feeling reactions. Thus the shadow can get at him from behind." -Marie-Louise Von Franz

[Anonymous No.18846019]

>>18844482
OY VEY NEVER SUBMIT TO AUTHORITY GOYIM NAZIS BAD THIS IS WHAT FREE THINKERS THINK
but, uh, never question jews remember the six gorillion

[Anonymous No.18846032]

"ya mum lol"

[Anonymous No.18846045]

>Great is the soul, and plain. It is no flatterer, it is no follower; it never appeals from itself. It believes in itself. Before the immense possibilities of man all mere experience, all past biography, however spotless and sainted, shrinks away. Before that heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of. We not only affirm that we have few great men, but, absolutely speaking, that we have none; that we have no history, no record of any character or mode of living that entirely contents us. The saints and demigods whom history worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance. Though in our lonely hours we draw a new strength out of their memory, yet, pressed on our attention, as they are by the thoughtless and customary, they fatigue and invade. The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure, who, on that condition, gladly inhabits, leads and speaks through it. Then is it glad, young and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious, but it is innocent. It calls the light its own, and feels that the grass grows and the stone falls by a law inferior to, and dependent on, its nature. Behold, it saith, I am born into the great, the universal mind. I, the imperfect, adore my own Perfect. I am somehow receptive of the great soul, and thereby I do Overlook the sun and the stars and feel them to be the fair accidents and effects which change and pass. More and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me, and I become public and human in my regards and actions. So come I to live in thoughts and act with energies which are immortal. Thus revering the soul, and learning, as the ancient said, that "its beauty is immense," man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh, and be less astonished at particular wonders; he will learn that there is no profane history; that all history is sacred; that the universe is represented in an atom, in a moment of time. He will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches, but he will live with a divine unity. He will cease from what is base and frivolous in his life and be content with all places and with any service he can render. He will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it and so hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart.

[Anonymous No.18846256]

[Anonymous No.18846381]

>>18844482
>“If a man knows not to which port he sails, any road will get him there.” —Yogi Bear

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>>18844482
>"Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?" —Rachel Carson

>"Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist." —George Carlin

[Anonymous No.18846517]

>>18846420
At least read the other posts before posting

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>>18846517
The hell is this arbitrary constriction for? Just me, I see.

>"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you." -C.G. Jung

[Anonymous No.18846562]

>>18844482
>The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far reaching consequence of submission to authority." —Stanley Milgram
This is peak midwit. Responsibility as it relates to external affairs is the liberal mindset and represents a spooked secular morality, and, in point of fact, reinforces authority.

NOOOOO ITS YOUR RESPONSBILITY TO WEAR THE HECKIN MASK, GET VAXED, DRIVE THE FLIPPEN SPEED LIMIT, WEAR A SEAT BELT....... CUT THE FRIGGIN PLASTIC RINGS ON 6 PACKS OFF SO THE HECKIN DUCKERINOS AND OTHER CUTE-O ANIMALS DONT GET STUCK IN THEM...... ITS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO GET A JOB..... ITS YOUR FRICKIN RESPONSIBILITY TO PAY BACK YOUT STUDENT LOAB DEBT, YOU CANT JUST NOT PAY THE STATE. WE HAVE A COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY TO STOP MUHHHHH CLIMATE CHANGE FOR DA FUTURE GENERATIONS AND EARHERINOOOOS NOOOOOO YOU NEED TO PARICIPATE OR ILLL RAISE THE TAXERINOS

Stanley Midwit and you should kys.

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>>18846562
If you mask and vax because the government tells you to, that’s different from masking and vaxing for altruistic reasons.
Now shut up and do one or the other. You can’t be both anti-mask and vaccine. It’s not a hoax

[Anonymous No.18846820]

>>18846562
>>18846562
>wall of demoralizing schizo rambling

Yeah get fucked retard, I think you completely missed the point of the quote, you seem to be ranting and raving against authority when the quote is just demonstrating that people often abdicate their responsibility to think for themselves (and hence to be held accountable for their actions) when they defer their decision making to authority figures (or in the case of Stanley Milgram's experiment, presumed authority figures)

[Anonymous No.18847066]

>"When all desires are in peace and the mind, withdrawing within, gathers the multitudinous straying senses into the harmony of recollection; Then, with reason armed with resolution, let the seeker quietly lead the mind into the Spirit, and let all his thoughts be silence.
And whenever the mind unsteady and restless strays away from the Spirit, let him ever and for ever lead it again to the Spirit."

— Bhagavad Gita

>"Verily thy five windows are the five senses of thy Soul. He who closes them and admits not the light of this world shall see the Light of his Spirit. But he who opens them to all the world, shall sit in darkness, not letting his Spirit put forth any of her own glorious internal Light."

—The Book of Fo

>May not a man take muddy water and make it clear by keeping still?

>Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then Return to the Source. Returning to the Source is stillness, which is the Way of Nature.

>Having emptied yourself of everything, remain where you are. All things soaring forth into activity with one accord, and whither do we see them return? After blossoming for a while everything dies down to its root. This going back to one’s origin is called peace; it is the giving of oneself over to the inevitable. This giving of oneself over to the inevitable is called preservation. He who knows this preservation is called enlightened. He who knows it not continues in misery. He who knows this preservation is great of soul. He who is great of soul is prevailing. Prevailing, he is a king. Being a king, he is celestial. Being celestial he is of the Tao. Being of the Tao, he endures for ever; for though his body perish, yet suffers he no hurt.”

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

>God is an Eternal Being, an infinite Oneness, the radical principle of all things whose Essence is an incomprehensible Light; His Power: Omnipotence; whose back is an absolute act. He that dives deeper, is swallowed up in a trance and silence, and is lost in the abyss of unfathomed glory.

—Jean D'Espagnet, Enchyridion Physicae Restitutae

[Anonymous No.18848526]

>>18844523
>"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you." -C.G. Jung
I like this quote because I read it in two ways. I see it saying you can learn about who you are by exploring the world, but it also gives off a foreboding vibe, as if if you lack identity, the world will impose an identity onto you.

[Anonymous No.18848540]

>>18846605
I don't have altruistic reasons for doing anything because I am not a spooked retard. If cause someone to get COVID by not wearing a mask or not getting vaxxed, I am better off. Heightening the curve means the pandemic is over sooner. Old people dying means more capital is freed. More people dead = more jobs and more capital. I'll be better off. If I get COVID and die, it doesn't really matter either. Not a convincing self-interested reason to wear masks or get vaccines.

[Anonymous No.18848662]

>>18846553
>>18846420
Here's the world telling you who you are: a worthless cunt.

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>>18848662
No, you.

[Anonymous No.18850384]

Bump

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>>18850384
Wew. Saved from page 11

[Anonymous No.18850495]

Ode on Ass

O proud the girl who owns the ass
And glad displays before a swim;
A fair young blonde pale-skinnèd lass,
Petite and slim.

Whose rounded tush, whose giant rear,
Whose butt as firm as marble stone
Tell past the prepubescent year
Her age has grown.

How I do envy with my soul
That floss'd between her bubbly cheeks,
Caressing both her cunt and hole
Where farting reeks.

But here's the joy, what luck to hear:
This photograph of mortal Venus
Allows, commands mine eyes revere,
Makes hard my penis.

Thus let me fap, with heart, with heat,
Thus with great pleasure let me cum;
To masturbate to flatter sweet
And praise her bum.

[Anonymous No.18850512]

>>18844482
"Don't despair, not even over the fact you don't despair" -- Kafka

"Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel" -- Dostoyevsky

"I do not expect 'history' to be anything but a 'long defeat' - though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory." -- Tolkien

"However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans." -- Kipling

[Anonymous No.18850588]

>>18846256
Made me lol

[Anonymous No.18850612]

>>18844482
good thread anon, my quote book isn't here with my right now unfortunately

[Anonymous No.18850660]

>>18846045
That is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read, thank you for sharing

[Anonymous No.18852173]

>>18844494
>t. can't appreciate aphorisms