“Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.”

– Jean-Paul Sartre

“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”

– Kurt Vonnegut

“True friends stab you in the front.”

– Oscar Wilde

“The most exquisite paradox … as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.  As long as you want power, you can’t have it.  The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”

– Ram Dass

“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”

– Voltaire

“Expectations are the building blocks of disappointment.”

– Unknown

“Angels fly because they take themselves lightly”

– G.K. Chesterton

“People may be evil, but at least they’re stupid.”

– Moi (paraphrasing futurama)

“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

– Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear”

– Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. “

– Sydney J. Harris

“It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.”

– Albert Camus

“The Internet wasn’t created for mockery. It was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets.”

-Homer Simpson

“How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea.”

– Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values”

– Marshall McLuhan

“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards”

– Diogenes

“Silence is not inertness but great activity. It is the most powerful speech.”

– Ramana Maharshi

“If you can’t annoy somebody with what you write, I think there’s little point in writing.”

– Kingsley Amis

“‘Old’ is not defined by age, ‘old’ begins the day one starts looking backwards instead of forwards.”

– my Father

“A thought is an idea in transit.”

– Pythagoras

“It will happen. It’s always happening. It’s always trying to show itself.”

– Adyashanti

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

– Albert Einstein

“You are in a play, playing a role, and believing that the role and the play are both real. Why would you believe such nonsense? Because “your mind” is the playwright, the author of every scene.”

– Floyd Henderson

“Des yeux qui font baisser les miens
Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche
Voilà le portrait sans retouche
De l’homme auquel j’appartiens

Quand il me prend dans ses bras
Il me parle tout bas

je vois la vie en rose…”

– La vie en Rose

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’s relativity.”

– Albert Einstein

“Love is an astronaut … it comes back but it’s never the same”

– LCD Soundsystem

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.“

– Dr. Seuss

“We imagine that we need to be loved and recognized as a totally unique being, as an entity separate from the common mortal by our greatness […] The ego is the part of the human body-mind most susceptible to elevation. We need to be recognized and loved far beyond the ego.”

— Daniel Odier, Desire: The Tantric Path To Awakening

via: http://nightmarebrunette.tumblr.com/page/2 (nsfw)

“As our minds will attain the non-linear associative powers that will do away with the static mold of analog information we will finally break through the speed barrier of thought.”

— rene: Beyond the speed of thought

via: http://spacecollective.org/gallery/

“Just Because They Don’t Know Me Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Berate Me”

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