Quotes and Ideas November 20th, 2008
“I know my fate. One day, my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous, a crisis without equal on earth. The most profound collision of conscience, conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, and hallowed so far. For it is where you see ideals that I see what is human. Alas, all too human.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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“It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man’s proper stature – and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning – and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me that they will betray: it is their own souls.”
- Ayn Rand
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Peter Keating: “Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can’t you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You’re so serious, so old. Everything’s important with you. Everything’s great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can’t you ever be comfortable–and unimportant?”
Howard Roark: “No.”
- The Fountainhead
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Master of the Lightnings, Rider on the Storm,
Wearer of a Crown of Swords, Spinner-out of Fate,
who thinks he turns the Wheel of Time,
will find the truth too late.
- Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
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“A subtle chain of countless rings
the next unto the farthest brings
the eye sees omens where it goes
and speaks all languages the Rose
and striving to be Man the worm
mounts through all the spires of form”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
- Douglas Adams
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“Dusk is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are … there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to be always together, yet forever apart?”
- Anonymous
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“… and the spirit now wills his own will … and he who had been lost to the World now returns to conquer it.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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“… from medium to medium, the real is volatilized, becoming an allegory of death. But it is also, in a sense, reinforced through its own destruction–it becomes reality for its own sake, the fetishism of the lost object: no longer the object of representation, but the ecstasy of denial and of its own ritual extermination: the hyperreal…”
- Jean Baudrillard
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“… the order of the World is always right. Such is the judgment of God. For God has departed but left his judgment behind… just as the Cheshire Cat left his grin.”
- Jean Baudrillard
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“The Road goes ever on and on,
down from the Door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow if I can!
Pursuing it with eager feet,
until it finds some larger way.
Where many paths and errands may meet,
And whither then?–I cannot say.
The Road goes ever on and on,
out from the Door where it began.
now far ahead the Road has gone,
let others follow it who can!
Let then a journey new begin,
but I at last with weary feet.
will turn towards the lighted inn,
my evening-rest and sleep to meet.
Still round the corner there may wait
a new Road or a secret gate;
and though I oft have passed them by,
a day will come at last when I
shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien
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“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”
- Walker Evans
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God is the solitude of men. There was only me:
I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good.
I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles,
I am the one accusing myself today.
I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.
- The Devil and the Good Lord, act 10, sc. 4
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“the edge… there is no honest way to explain it. Because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over it.”
- Hunter S Thompson
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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes Awww!”
- Jack Kerouac
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“Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity…”
- Václav Havel
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“Always go too far, for that is where the truth lies.”
- Albert Camus
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“You need chaos in your heart to give birth to a dancing star”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
- Robert Brault
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“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will”
- Arthur Rimbaud
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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world”
- Oscar Wilde
