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Richard Wagner, Poop Sandwich, Erik Satie, Dirt Eaters, Dostoyevski, Empty Suits, Vandals, The Jokerhere's a shitload of quotes that I like:
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? Cicero (106 BC - 43)

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins. Lois McMaster Bujold

now i'm in quoting mode, here is more that i like:

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. - Frank Motherfucking Zappa

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Picasso... bitch

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. Piet Mondrian

Only sick music makes money today. Friedrich Nietzsche

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' Aaron Copland

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

My music is best understood by children and animals. Igor Stravinsky

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. John Cage

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. Oliver Wendell Holmes

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. Bertrand Russell

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life. Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. Noel Coward

Imagination is more important than knowledge... Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. Albert Einstein

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. Albert Einstein

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. Abraham Lincoln

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. Sir Richard Francis Burton

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself. Sophy Burnham

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. Thomas Jefferson

Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child. Waiter Rant

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. Jewish Proverb

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. Mary Daly

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire

I'm still an atheist, thank God. Luis Bunuel

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Voltaire

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. John Cage

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. Petrarch

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. Mark Twain

[Water is] the only drink for a wise man. Henry David Thoreau

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. Homer

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. Victor Hugo

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience. Lawana Blackwell

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich

The friendship that can cease has never been real. Saint Jerome

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. Albert Camus

What is a rebel? A man who says no. Albert Camus

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool. Albert Camus

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. Carl Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. Carl Jung

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Jung

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Carl Jung

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Jung

the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. Voltaire

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. Voltaire

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. Voltaire

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Voltaire

In love, one and one are one. Jean-Paul Sartre

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. Jean-Paul Sartre

Existence precedes and rules essence. Jean-Paul Sartre

It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are? -- Frank Zappa,

The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the Tree of Knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions. -- Frank Zappa

Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion? -- Frank Zappa

The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious. -- Frank Zappa

Your mind is a parachute, it works best when its open. -Zappa

"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST..."-Zappa

"Maybe it would be better if people stopped trying to find a person who is right for them, and focused on being the right person for themselves." -Jim Skalicky

My Blog

Life Lessons

I learn this again and again, day in and day out; whenever I forget, I get a healthy reminder very soon; learn it or suffer: The less you expect and assume and trust and hope, the less dissapointment ...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:36:00 GMT

Sentimental Poem and Thought of the Day

..> Body: "Who are wise in love, love most, say least."-Alfred Lord TennysonAgreed Alfey and Now:A Thought:It seems to me like everyone wants to think they are special in some way shape or form....
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:51:00 GMT

Quote of the Day Archive

"They're all bitches Jon. I'm in love, but I'm in love with a bitch."Jon Shaw's Uncle "Millions of tiny white smiles thronged down from the blue sky. They played over the leaves still cupping the rain...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:51:00 GMT

Oh Exalted Nature I Bow to Thee


Posted by on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:23:00 GMT

Mountain Part Dos y Tres

Just some more pictures from another glorious, breath-stealing, awe inspiring and all together Godly of a mountain climb.  If any of yous wants to get off your myspace lovin asses and e...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:20:00 GMT

Documentation of To Climb a Mountain

To Climb a Mountain is such a beautiful and inspiring thing.  Here is my documentation of one such event that took place here in La Verne, California on a summer's day.  Here is the Mountai...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:28:00 GMT