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These are random quotes that have either inspired or amused me. Enjoy!!
"Love one another," it has been said, is the supreme law, but what power made it so? Upon what rational authority does the gospel of love rest? Why should I not hate mine enemies- if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?
-Anton LaVey, THE BOOK OF SATAN, Chapter III, Verse 1.
I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and I am here to tell you that you are free. -ERIS, from the Principia Discordia
"Being desirous of allaying the dissension's of party strife now existing within our realm, [I] do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than ten, nor less than five years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree."
Joshua Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico --San Francisco Herald, August 4, 1869
All along, I've been saying Congress was involved in Sept. 11. But did anyone listen? No. Instead, I'm just dismissed as that crazy guy who lives under the overpass and shits in a KFC bucket.
Christian: "Why did you kill Christ?" Jew: "I dunno...it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know?" -LENNY BRUCE
The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe - that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. H.L. Mencken
A little girl saw a punk rocker walking down the street one day. As she was curious about punk, she walked up to him and asked, "What is Punk?" The punk looked around, saw a trash can, kicked it over, and said, "That is Punk." So the little girl looked around, saw another trash can, kicked it over, and asked, "Am I Punk now?" The punk looked at her and said, "No. Now you're a fucking poseur." And the little girl was enlightened. But then the little girl thought for a moment, walked over to the punk, kicked him in the crotch and said, "Fuck you, asshole." And the punk was enlightened.
You have to accept the possibility that God doesn't like you. Tyler Durden, FIGHT CLUB
Scipione in tuus sinus id est, aut laetus videre me es?
The Lord is not the loving god he swore to us he was. Instead he's just a god who feeds on love. The creation of mankind was the act of an egomaniac, plain and simple- to choose to follow God would be a conscious act, and therefore all the more pleasing to Him. The result was a world that can never know peace, but I guess that never bothered Him.
Jesse Custer, PREACHER
It is a waste of time to discuss philosophy with anyone who bases his position on articles of faith, because he will not question them as long as he clings to them. He must first admit to the possibility that his faith can be challenged on rational, factual grounds before any meaningful dialogue can occur. Most persons who are comfortable with faith to begin with are reluctant to do this. The most one can do in a dialogue with a faith-adherent is to discuss lesser issues with him, bearing in mind that he will accept or interpret the conversation only within the context of that faith. -Ipsissimus Michael Aquino VI°
Fighting a war over religion is like killing people in an argument about who has the better imaginary friend. -Richard Jeni
If a patient came into my office warning of an imminent attack on the US with weapons of mass destruction without there being any evidence whatsoever that this would occur, and saying that we had to strike first and "take out" all those who were a threat to us as a first step towards world domination, I would diagnose him as suffering from paranoid and grandiose delusions and perhaps as psychotic. And, fearing that he constituted a potential danger to himself or others, I would commit him to a psychiatric hospital for a period of evaluation and treatment. I suspect that some of my colleagues with licenses to practice psychiatry in Washington DC are struggling with the decision to exercise their clinical, ethical, and legal responsibilities to protect the public now that the US Congress has failed to do so.
Dr. Eric Chivian, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. quoted in The Guardian
Look at me-listen to what I say-do you suppose there are really any such things as time and magnitude? Do you fancy there are such things as form or matter? I tell you, I have struck depths that your little brain can't picture. I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars... I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Space belongs to me, do you hear? Things are hunting me now-the things that devour and dissolve-but I know how to elude them.
It is you they will get... H. P. LOVECRAFT, "From Beyond"
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see it's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Frank Herbert- DUNE
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
-George Bernard Shaw
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." -Albert Einstein
"Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt." - William S. Burroughs
"Science and magick are frequently different maps for very similar territory. Following the path of least resistance, science ignores magick's hard-to-travel path. Magick uses myth and science uses ambiguous terminology: semantically, both say the same thing. Each principle is expressed as 'An unknown something is doing we don't know what'. Each law is a variation of 'It did it again'" -Camden Benares, Zen without Zen Masters.
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on." - William Burroughs
'It is a little known fact that the so-called "Law of Gravity" was actually one of Sir Isaac "Shecky" Newton's best practical jokes, and it was such a wonderful knee-slapper that generations of teachers have devoted themselves to keeping the hoax alive. In truth, there is no such thing as "gravity." Rather, the Great Earth Goddess sucks.'
-Bruce Bethke, Headcrash
'The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.' -Hakim Bey (Millennium, pg 38)
'Politics offer yesterday's answers to today's questions' - M. McLuhan
'Doubt. Doubt thyself. Doubt even if thou Doubtest yourself. Doubt all. Doubt even if thou Doubtest all. It seems sometimes as if beneath all conscious doubt there lay some deepest certainty. O kill it! Slay the snake!' - Crowley, (The Book of Lies ,Ch. 51)
''Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our life. They should also govern it.' - Wilhelm Reich
"Is Man one of God's blunders, or is God one of Man's blunders?" -Nietzsche
"Any sufficiently advanced form of magick will appear indistinguishable from science." -Stokastikos's Law
"If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability." - Peter J. Carroll (in PsyberMagick)
"Nothing is true-Everything is permissible!" -Hassan i Sabbah
"Love one another," it has been said, is the supreme law, but what power made it so? Upon what rational authority does the gospel of love rest? Why should I not hate mine enemies- if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?
-Anton LaVey, THE BOOK OF SATAN, Chapter III, Verse 1.
I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and I am here to tell you that you are free. -ERIS, from the Principia Discordia
"Being desirous of allaying the dissension's of party strife now existing within our realm, [I] do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than ten, nor less than five years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree."
Joshua Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico --San Francisco Herald, August 4, 1869
All along, I've been saying Congress was involved in Sept. 11. But did anyone listen? No. Instead, I'm just dismissed as that crazy guy who lives under the overpass and shits in a KFC bucket.
Christian: "Why did you kill Christ?" Jew: "I dunno...it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know?" -LENNY BRUCE
The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe - that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. H.L. Mencken
A little girl saw a punk rocker walking down the street one day. As she was curious about punk, she walked up to him and asked, "What is Punk?" The punk looked around, saw a trash can, kicked it over, and said, "That is Punk." So the little girl looked around, saw another trash can, kicked it over, and asked, "Am I Punk now?" The punk looked at her and said, "No. Now you're a fucking poseur." And the little girl was enlightened. But then the little girl thought for a moment, walked over to the punk, kicked him in the crotch and said, "Fuck you, asshole." And the punk was enlightened.
You have to accept the possibility that God doesn't like you. Tyler Durden, FIGHT CLUB
Scipione in tuus sinus id est, aut laetus videre me es?
The Lord is not the loving god he swore to us he was. Instead he's just a god who feeds on love. The creation of mankind was the act of an egomaniac, plain and simple- to choose to follow God would be a conscious act, and therefore all the more pleasing to Him. The result was a world that can never know peace, but I guess that never bothered Him.
Jesse Custer, PREACHER
It is a waste of time to discuss philosophy with anyone who bases his position on articles of faith, because he will not question them as long as he clings to them. He must first admit to the possibility that his faith can be challenged on rational, factual grounds before any meaningful dialogue can occur. Most persons who are comfortable with faith to begin with are reluctant to do this. The most one can do in a dialogue with a faith-adherent is to discuss lesser issues with him, bearing in mind that he will accept or interpret the conversation only within the context of that faith. -Ipsissimus Michael Aquino VI°
Fighting a war over religion is like killing people in an argument about who has the better imaginary friend. -Richard Jeni
If a patient came into my office warning of an imminent attack on the US with weapons of mass destruction without there being any evidence whatsoever that this would occur, and saying that we had to strike first and "take out" all those who were a threat to us as a first step towards world domination, I would diagnose him as suffering from paranoid and grandiose delusions and perhaps as psychotic. And, fearing that he constituted a potential danger to himself or others, I would commit him to a psychiatric hospital for a period of evaluation and treatment. I suspect that some of my colleagues with licenses to practice psychiatry in Washington DC are struggling with the decision to exercise their clinical, ethical, and legal responsibilities to protect the public now that the US Congress has failed to do so.
Dr. Eric Chivian, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. quoted in The Guardian
Look at me-listen to what I say-do you suppose there are really any such things as time and magnitude? Do you fancy there are such things as form or matter? I tell you, I have struck depths that your little brain can't picture. I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars... I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Space belongs to me, do you hear? Things are hunting me now-the things that devour and dissolve-but I know how to elude them.
It is you they will get... H. P. LOVECRAFT, "From Beyond"
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see it's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Frank Herbert- DUNE
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
-George Bernard Shaw
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." -Albert Einstein
"Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt." - William S. Burroughs
"Science and magick are frequently different maps for very similar territory. Following the path of least resistance, science ignores magick's hard-to-travel path. Magick uses myth and science uses ambiguous terminology: semantically, both say the same thing. Each principle is expressed as 'An unknown something is doing we don't know what'. Each law is a variation of 'It did it again'" -Camden Benares, Zen without Zen Masters.
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on." - William Burroughs
'It is a little known fact that the so-called "Law of Gravity" was actually one of Sir Isaac "Shecky" Newton's best practical jokes, and it was such a wonderful knee-slapper that generations of teachers have devoted themselves to keeping the hoax alive. In truth, there is no such thing as "gravity." Rather, the Great Earth Goddess sucks.'
-Bruce Bethke, Headcrash
'The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.' -Hakim Bey (Millennium, pg 38)
'Politics offer yesterday's answers to today's questions' - M. McLuhan
'Doubt. Doubt thyself. Doubt even if thou Doubtest yourself. Doubt all. Doubt even if thou Doubtest all. It seems sometimes as if beneath all conscious doubt there lay some deepest certainty. O kill it! Slay the snake!' - Crowley, (The Book of Lies ,Ch. 51)
''Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our life. They should also govern it.' - Wilhelm Reich
"Is Man one of God's blunders, or is God one of Man's blunders?" -Nietzsche
"Any sufficiently advanced form of magick will appear indistinguishable from science." -Stokastikos's Law
"If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability." - Peter J. Carroll (in PsyberMagick)
"Nothing is true-Everything is permissible!" -Hassan i Sabbah
