Craig

the majority of my profile is filled with quotes. if you are taking the time to read them. read one at a time. think on each one. each will tell. if you care to know who a quote may be from by all means ask and ill tell."In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. ""Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ""The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. "How can you continue to see the world as "real" if the Self determining what is real, is intangible?"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. ""The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.""When the doors of perception have been cleansed, everything will appear to man as it is - infinite.""The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.""The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. "the divine imageto Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love all pray in their distress; and to these virtues of delight return their thankfulness.for Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love is God, our father dear, and Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love is Man, his child and care.for Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, and Love, the human form divine, and Peace, the human dress.then every man of every clime that prays in his distress, prays to the human form divine; Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.and all must love the human form in heathen, turk or jew. where Mercy, Love & Pity dwell there God is dwelling too."To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. "Everything is nothing, other than what it is to You.."Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.""Music inflames temperament"...On Another's SorrowCan I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief?Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow fill'd?Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no, never can it be, Never, never can it be!And can he who smiles on all Hear the wren with sorrows small, Hear the small bird's grief & care, Hear the woes that infants bear,And not sit beside the nest, Pouring pity in their breast; And not sit the cradle near, Weeping tear on infant's tear;And not sit both night & day, Wiping all our tears away? O, no, never can it be, Never, never can it be!He doth give his joy to all; He becomes a man of woe; He doth feel the sorrow too.Think not thou canst sigh a sigh And thy maker is not by; Think not though canst weep a tear And thy maker is not near.O, he gives to us his joy That our grief he may destroy; Till our grief is fled & gone He doth sit by us and moan."I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.""If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.""The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.""The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.""We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.""Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.""Art is the proper task of life. "have a great love and respect for literaturestrongly opposed to Falsity."If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world. ""He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. ""There are no facts, only interpretations. "