[eng:46dec31a68]• ’The body is a grave where the soul is buried.' -Gnostic saying.• ’This world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.' -Friedrich Nietzsche• ’Whatever in me has feeling, suffers and is in prison...' -Friedrich Nietzsche from Thus Spoke Zarathustra• ’Life is suffering...there is a reason for suffering...there is an end to suffering...there is a correct path leading to the end of suffering...' -Bob Caputo• ’Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so is consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness.Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking, the Truth is-The Unknown.'-John-a-dreams, from The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.• ’This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away.' -Jesus from 'The Gospel of Thomas' (The "Scholars' Translation" of the Gospel of Thomas done by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer)• 'Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person the world is not worthy.' -Jesus from 'The Gospel of Thomas' (The "Scholars' Translation" of the Gospel of Thomas done by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer)• '...the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.'-Deuteronomy 7:21• 'terrible -adj. arousing terror (pop.) excessivee, hard to bear, terrible heat (pop.) very bad, a terrible reception'-New Webster's dictionary and thesaurus• 'terrible, alarming, appalling, awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, severe, shocking, terrifying,. ANT.-appealing, attractive, captivating, happy, pleasing.'-New Webster's dictionary and thesaurus• 'On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions, where at the dawn of victory laid down to rest, and resting, died.'-Unknown• 'A man about to speak the truth should keep one foot in the stirrup.'-Old Mongolian saying.• 'Sleep, those little slices of death, oh how I loathe them!'-Edgar Allan Poe• 'The body of a dead enemy always smells good.'-Charles IX• '...I am one of the few that truly understands what death and pain are all about... I have walked the same path as God. By taking lives and making others afraid of me, I become God's equal. Through killing others, I become my own Master. Through my own power I come to my own redemption. Once I seen the miracle light, I didn't never again have to fear or obey the Rules of no Man or no God... I'll die peaceful because my name is going to live as long as men have memories-as long as they talk about good and evil-and as long as they read my words of Final Truth. '-Donald Gaskins, mass murderer, executed on September 6, 1991, from his book 'Final Truth'.• 'There is only one way to be born and a thousand ways to die.'-Serbian proverb• 'If you believe in hell, you're probably already there.'-Friedrich Nietzsche• 'We should flee, according to the Oracle, the multitude of men going in a herd.'-The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster• 'The Souls of those who quit the body violently are most pure.'-The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster• 'Stoop not down unto the Darkly-Splendid World; Wherein continually lieth a faithless Depth, and Hades wrapped in clouds, delighting in unindelible images, winding, a black ever-rolling Abyss; ever espousing a Body unluminous, formless and void.'-The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster• 'If ever the taming talisman, the cross, should shatter, primitive fury will be loose once again..., the senseless frenzy of the Berserk, of which the Nordic poets sing and tell so much. That talisman is decaying and the day will come when it will fall miserably to pieces. The old stone gods will then rise from their long forgotten rubble and wipe the dust of a thousand years from their eyes; and Thor will leap up in the end and shatter the Gothic cathedrals with his giant hammer. '-Heinrich Heine, On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany (1835)• 'Immortality is not a gift, immortality is an achievement; and only those who strive mightily shall possess it.' -Edgar Lee Masters• 'One short sleep past, we awake eternally, and death shall be no more.' -John Donne• 'Remember:- Something always singsIn the mud and scum of things.' -Aleister Crowley, 'Satanic Extracts'• The artificiality of the present social fabric, of the present so-called civilization, will be torn into shreds; and, as the dying leaves in the forest are driven before the strong winds of autumn, so shall the shreds of the existing social fabric be scattered. The destruction that mankind is drawing down upon itself will come in the form of war, famine, pestilence, fire, flood, cyclones, earthquakes and cataclysms.' -Aleister Crowley-'A Prophecy' from 'Satanic Extracts'• 'Christianity is Judaism for the multitude.' -Benjamin Disraeli• 'It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism...' -Joseph Ernest Renan• 'All religions are born from a false principle... Filled with the will for power, the voices of God (conniving priests) forged irons in which to chain men. And men, stupefied by their misery, willingly believed everything told them. Can religion, sprung from such motives, win our respect? Is there a single religion which does not bear the mark of falsehood and lies? What do we find in them: mysteries that cause reason to shudder; dogmas that outrage nature; and ceremonies that inspire only disgust and derision! Tell me, how can a reasonable man still believe the obscure words of Christianity, and her false miracles? Who was this leprous Jew, born of wanton and a soldier in the meanest place possible? Who appointed him the mouthpiece of the said creator of the world? What were his titles? What did he do to prove his mission? Did he change the face of the earth; did he destroy the plagues that afflict it; did he curb the viciousness that make it foul; are we any more happy? Then what did he do? Through jugglers' tricks and puns this man announces himself to the world. And to whom? -only to menials and slaves and sluts this ruler of Heaven manifests his greatness... I would rather die a thousand times than fall for such a tripe!'-Marquis De Sade from 'Justine' orr 'The Misfortunes of Virtue'• 'Jehovah... was a creature of darkness, hence an Evil God...' -Louis Israel Newman from 'Jewish Inflluence on Christian Reform Movements'• 'So heinous are the crimes of witches that they even exceed the sins and the fall of the bad angels...' -'Malleus Maleficarum'• 'Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.' -Hosea Balluo• 'Call no man happy till he is dead.' -Aeschylus 'Agamemnon'• 'In the midst of life we are in death.' -'Book of Common Prayer' • 'Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep,And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.' -Byron• 'Every moment of life is a step towards death.' -Corneille• 'First our pleasures die-and thenOur hopes, and then our fears-andwhenThese are dead, the debt is due,Dust claims dust-and we die too.' -Shelley 'Death'• 'Truth is mighty and will prevail.' -Thomas Brooks• 'Truth ever lovely-since the worldbegan,The foe of tyrants, and the friend ofman.' -Campbell• 'Great is truth, and mighty above all things.' -I Esdras. IV.41• 'I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so-called civilized society... I need not look beyond this room to see all the liars, haters, the killers, the crooks, the paranoid cowards-truly trematodes of the Earth, each one in his own legal profession... And no one knows that better than those who kill for policy, clandestinely or openly, as do the governments of the world, which kill in the name of God and country or for whatever reason they deem appropriate... I don't need to hear all of societies rationalizations... I've heard them all before and the fact remains that what is, is. You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable of it.' -Richard Ramirez, the so-called 'Night Sttalker,' when asked if he had anything to say before his sentence for 12 first degree murder counts, replied with the above. He was given twelve death sentences.• 'Hello from the gutters... which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood. Hello from the sewers... which swallow up these delicacies... Hello from the cracks in the sidewalks... and from the ants that dwell in these cracks and feed on the dried blood of the dead that has settled into the cracks...'[Signed]'In their bloodandFrom the Gutter.Sam's Creation .44'-David Berkowitz-the so-called 'Son of Saam' serial killer, from an excerpt of a letter he wrote to the local media during his killing spree.• ’The goal of all life is death.' -Sigmund Freud• ’All that has achieved existence deserves to be destroyed.' -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe• ’Hell is paved with the skulls of priests.' -St. John Chrysostom• ’In our sad condition, our only consolation is the expectancy of another life.' -Martin Luther• ’Now as we keep our watch and await the final day, count no mortal happy till he dies, free of pain at last.' -Sophocles• ’Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.' -E.M. Cioran• 'Fear prophets... and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.' -Umberto Eco• ’Civilizations die of suicide, not by murder.' -Arnold Toynbee• ’Time touches all things with a destroying hand.' -Charles Waddel Chestnutt• ’Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.' -Ludwig von Beethoven (Last words)>• ’Believe me, if I started murdering people, there would be none of you left.' -Charles Manson• ’In time of war the first casualty is truth.' -Boake Carter• ’The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.' -Dante• ’This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.' -T.S. Eliot• ’The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity.' -Adolf Hitler• ’Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.' -Aldous Huxley• ’History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.' -Napoleon• ’One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.' -Friedrich Nietzsche• 'Only the winners decide what were war crimes.' -Gary Wills• ’I desire to go to Hell, not to Heaven. In Hell I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, but in Heaven are only beggars, monks, hermits and apostles.' -Niccolo Machiavelli• ’Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.' -Jean Rostand• ’If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever.' -George Orwell-'Ninteen Eighty Four' 19499• ’Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.' -Denis Diderot• ’The only completely consistent people are the dead.' -Aldous Huxley• ’We have our task, and God knows it is a hard one -- the salvage of a shipwrecked world.' -Lothrop Stoddard• ’How strange a thing is freedom. Never again will I shut a bird up in a cage. And now I understand so well, why the Chinese and the Japanese, when they wish to show gratitude for good fortune, go to the market, buy cage-birds and let them loose. I will do this, too, one day...' - Rudolf Hess -1949• 'If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.' - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphiia State House, August 1, 1776.'• 'Alas the Master; so he sinks in death.But whoso knows the mystery of manSees life and death as curves of the same plan' -Aleister Crowley• 'Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and a manly heart.' -Longfellow• ’the city dumps fillthe junkyards fillthe madhouses fillthe hospitals fillthe graveyards fillnothing elsefills.' -Charles Bukowski, excerpt from the poem 'alone with everybody'• 'All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self-justifying - a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.' -Edward Abbey• 'If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.' -Adolf Hitler, Landsberg, November 5, 19225• 'There is something very unhealthy about Christianity.' -Adolf Hitler• 'I realise that man, in his imperfection, can commit innumerable errors -- but to devote myself deliberately to errors, that is something I cannot do. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch, in the next 200 years, will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity. My regret will have been that I could not behold its demise.' -Adolf Hitler. 'Art is written on the wings of the wind'- Saadalla Wannous* When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." -Erma Bombeck* I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.-Jack Handey* We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. - Author Unknown* Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.- George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma, 1906* To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all- Oscar wild* Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.- Albert Einstein* I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.- Thomas Edison * Those who give up liberty for the sake of security deserve neither liberty nor security.- Ben Franklin* Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.- Winston Churchill * Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist* If you love someone put their name in a circle not a heart, because a heart can be broken, a circle goes on forever.- Brian Littrell* Virtue is insufficient temptation. -George Bernard Shaw* My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso-Picasso* Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. - Friedrich Nietzsche* When love is not madness, it is not love. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca* Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. -Peter Ustinov * I may not like what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.- Voltaire * Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. -Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966* Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.-William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595* Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. - Michael LeunigWe loved with a love that was more than love. -Edgar Allan Poe* To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.- Petrarch* If I love you, what business is it of yours? -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe* Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -Rose Franken* Love me and the world is mine. -David Reed* When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray* Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -George Bernard Shaw* Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.- Mark Twain* Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. - Aldous Huxley * It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. - Oscar Wilde*Truth breeds hatred. - Bias of Priene, Maxims- Truth is a great flirt. - Franz Liszt*...Science and mathematicsRun parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it,They never touch it: consider what an explosionWould rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the worldIf any mind for a moment touch truth.- Robinson Jeffers, "The Silent Sheppherds," The Beginning & the End* The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. -Jim Davis* Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious. -Oscar Wilde* Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. -Twyla Tharp* Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -Stella Adler* Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. -Leonardo da Vinci* An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. -Charles Horton Cooley* Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. -Isaac Bashevis Singer* Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. -Oscar Wilde* Great art picks up where nature ends. -Marc Chagall* No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. -Oscar Wilde* A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -Paul Valéry* To see the Summer SkyIs Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -True Poems flee.- Emily Dickinson* Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. -James Branch Cabell* When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. - Chinese Proverb* Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. -Confucius* Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. -George Eliot* The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. - Johann von Goethe* A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. - Karl Kraus* How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. -Oscar Wilde* One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. - Vincent Van Gogh* Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. -Vincent Van Gogh, 1889* Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks. -Una Stannard* The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. - Albert Einstein* Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. - Mark Twain* I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. - Vincent Van Gogh* O wild and wondrous midnight,There is a might in theeTo make the charmed bodyAlmost like spirit be,And give it some faint glimpsesOf immortality.- James Russell Lowell, Midnight* How like a queen comes forth the lonely MoonFrom the slow opening curtains of the cloudsWalking in beauty to her midnight throne!- George Croly, Diana* The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Nigght's Dream* Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. - Ludwig van Beethoven* Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo* In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886* Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. - Author Unknown* We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. -William James* The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. - Plato* Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. - John Lennon* All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain. - Epictetus* To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. - Friedrich Nietzsche* Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. - Robert Zend* Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. - Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950* I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. - Woody Allen* I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits. - Jean Jacques Rousseau* Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. - Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary[/eng:46dec31a68]
