Dash's quotes

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"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: love
825 people liked it

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it."
— Bertolt Brecht

15 people liked it

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading
1,283 people liked it

"Dance Like No One is Watching...
Love Like You Have Never Been Hurt Before...
Go to Work Like You Don't Need The Money."
— Kurt Vonnegut

180 people liked it

"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

195 people liked it

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
— Andy Warhol (The Philosophy of Andy Warhol :)

tags: change, initiative, time
109 people liked it

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke (Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible)

tags: science, technology
158 people liked it

"It may be that our role on this planet
is not to worship God--but to create him."
— Arthur C. Clarke

36 people liked it

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life"
— Bertolt Brecht (The Jewish Wife, and Other Short Plays)

11 people liked it

"He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought"
— Bertolt Brecht (The Threepenny Opera)

tags: zippy
2 people liked it

"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."
— Bertolt Brecht (Life of Galileo)

tags: error, science
18 people liked it

"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
— Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts)

tags: inspirational, tears
51 people liked it

"You're on Earth. There's no cure for that."
— Samuel Beckett

tags: life
56 people liked it

"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
— Samuel Beckett

tags: beckett, rena, samuel, silverman
34 people liked it

"Estragon: People are bloody ignorant apes."
— Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts)

9 people liked it

"The end is in the beginning and yet you go on."
— Samuel Beckett (Endgame)

16 people liked it

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
— Ayn Rand

1,824 people liked it

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
— Ayn Rand

197 people liked it

"Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill."
— Roger Zelazny (Lord of Light)

3 people liked it

"For you see, the headwaters of Shit Creek are a cruel and treacherous expanse."
— Roger Zelazny

11 people liked it

"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity."
— Harlan Ellison

tags: humor, stupidity
89 people liked it

"I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
Adult. You have become adult.
-- From the title story "Paingod"
— Harlan Ellison (Paingod and Other Delusions)

tags: inspirational, pain, philosophy
40 people liked it

"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant."
— Harlan Ellison

tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
94 people liked it

"be careful of monsters with teeth"
— Harlan Ellison

7 people liked it

"Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose? "
— Theodore Sturgeon (E Pluribus Unicorn)

6 people liked it

"Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud.
That's because 90% of everything is crud."
— paraphrased from Theodore Sturgeon, award-winning science fiction writer in the 1950's

2 people liked it

"If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution."
— Emma Goldman

tags: anarchy, music, revolution
215 people liked it

"The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation."
— Emma Goldman (Anarchism and Other Essays)

tags: anarchy, atheism, religion
26 people liked it

" Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. In freedom it gives itself unreservedly, abundantly, completely. All the laws on the statutes, all the courts in the universe, cannot tear it from the soil, once love has taken root."
— Emma Goldman (Marriage And Love)

tags: anti-marriage, love, polyamory, sex-positive
21 people liked it

"Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government."
— Emma Goldman

19 people liked it

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: day, dreaming, dreams, night
576 people liked it

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: insanity, sanity
789 people liked it

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: dreaming, dreams, perception
341 people liked it

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: age, dark, dreaming, dreams, future, inspirational, past, time
35 people liked it

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain
60 people liked it

"We loved with a love that was more than love."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: logic, love
408 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,740 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,258 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,733 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,055 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,002 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,394 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,352 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,615 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,184 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
6,729 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,084 people liked it