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“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
― Emil Cioran

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”
― Émile Michel Cioran

“Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.”
― Emil Cioran

“A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist

“A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic...”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist

“The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist

“A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist

“If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist

“Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists.”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist

“Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.”
― Bill Gaede

“A mathematician tells you that the wall of warped space prevents the Moon from flying out of its orbit yet can't tell you why an astronaut can go back and forth across that same space.”
― Bill Gaede

“A mathematician is an individual who constructs space with 0D particles and then places a bowling ball on this invisible canvas to explain how gravity works.”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist

“It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.”
― Bill Gaede

“There are many kinds of eyes. Even the sphinx has eyes - and consequently there are many kinds of 'truths,' and consequently there is no truth”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.”
― Charles S. Peirce

“Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.”
― Charles S. Peirce

“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”
― Plotinus

“Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.”
― Plotinus

“Everything is overflowing with Gods.”
― Proclus

“For at this point one would arrive at the act of thinking of it (evil, i.e. κακως) as if to be disproportion in regards to proportion, and limitlessness in regards to limit, formlessness in regards to the one-shaping-the-forms, always wanting in self-sufficiency, always indefinite, no where having a place to situate itself, wholly passive, insatiable absolute poverty; and these things above have not been corresponding to it, but as if the true essential being of it is these things, and what is it but all these things.”
― Plotinus

“Time is a child playing a game of draughts; the kingship is in the hands of a child.”
― Heraclitus

“Vishnu being thus manifest and unmanifest substance, spirit and time, sports like a playful boy. (Vishnu Purana 1.2)”
― Vishnu Purana

“¨You ask me, how was it to come to pass that I, despite the detachment I have achieved from the web of life, could be transformed overnight into a sexual murderer? I will tell you. Human beings are like glass tubes, through which many colored balls may roll. Most men are restricted to one color only. Should the ball be red, the man is branded as ¨bad¨; if yellow, then he is ¨good.¨ Should two balls pursue their passage through the same tube, one yellow and one red, then the man has an ¨unstable character.¨ But we, who have been ¨bitten by the Serpent of the Kingdom of the spirit,¨ compress into one life the experiences of a whole race within an age: colored balls rush wildly after one another on their way through the glass tube, and when it ends, then we are prophets, and the very mirror of God himself. -- Gustave Meyrink, Der Golem”
― Gustave Meyrink

“कालो ऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो..... ( I am Time, the great destroyer of the world ~Bhagavad Gita 11.32)”
― Ved Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

“I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

“I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend