philosophy

"I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants."

"Infinite Promise The carrot of infinite promise always dangles just inches beyond our noses.The trick is to surreptitiously switch that carrot for a zucchini."

"California Haiku "After my boob jobI'm taking acting lessons.Fuck's fifty, no anal."

"If you know the brightness of your heart, you will never fear darkness."

"Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed."

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies."

"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents."Translation by Sharon Lebell"

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

"I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats."

"He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.‘Quite so…"

"Stop searching and start revealing the treasures that reside inside of your heart."

"The Freedom Paradox [10w] The act of protecting freedom is a violation of freedom."

"The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines."

"The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental."

"Preserving Beauty [10w] + {Couplet} Preserving beauty is futile;even Cleopatra returned to the Nile."

"You’re still a little shy, I see, the wizard noted. I think if you ignore evil, my friend, it tends to grow stronger. (Quinhelm, the wizard - from BRIGGEN)"

"There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable."

"Explosive Heart [10w] + {Couplet} A heart that's been playedcan become a hand grenade."

"Never get angry. If you have to get angry, get angry at yourself and not at others."

"Leaps of Faith [10w] Like religion, leaps of faith are behind all idealistic movements."