Squach Quotes

Squach's Quotes

Currently in no particular order but at a later time I may need to alter the format...

"That which does not kill me can only make me stronger."
-----Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche
"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."
-----J.F.K.
"He who fights with monsters might take care,
lest he there by become a monster.
And if you gaze for long into the abyss,
the abyss gazes also into you."
-----Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche, "Beyond Good and Evil
"Nothing determines what we become so much as those things we choose to ignore.
-----Sandor McNab
The good what power, but to weep barren tears.
The powerful goodness want: worse need for them.
The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom."
-----P.B.Shelly, "Prometheus Unbound"
As far as we can discern, the sole porpuse of human existance is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
-----C.G.Jung
Only the free have disposition to be truthful,
Only the truthful have intrest to be just,
Only the just posses the will-power to be free.
-----W.H.Auden, "In Time of War: Commentary"
"I stood,
Among them, but not of them;
In a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts"
-----Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."
-----Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution In France"
"Let's have a war- we need the space
Let's have a war- clean up this place."
Fear, "Let's Have a War"
The more things change, the more they stay the same."
-----Old French Proverb
People don't change truth
Truth changes people."
-----Unknown
"There's a madness to my method."
-----Tony Hill
"Death;
Why does it have to be?
Life;
Why must it afflict me?"
-----J.Allen Greiner
"Be good and you will be lonesome."
-----Mark Twain
"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"
-----Napoleon, "Sayings"
We are still under the sway of the destructive and vain belief that man is the pinnacle of creation, and not just a part of it, and that, therefore, everything is permitted.....We are incapable of understanding that the only genuine backbone of our actions- if they are to be moral- is responsiblity. Responsibility to something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my sucess. Responsibility to the order of Being where all our actions are indellibly recorded and where, and only where, they will be properly judged."
-----Valcav Havel, in a speech to the U.S. Congress
"Now reader, I have told my dream to thee;
See if thou canst interpret it to me
Or to thyself, or neighbor.But take heed
Of misinterpreting; for that, instead
Of doing good, will but thyself abuse
By misinterpreting evil issues."
-----John Bunyan, "The Pilgim's Progress"
"The dynamic principle of fantasy is play."
----- C.G. Jung
"What's the meaning of words
When they cease to function-
When there's nothing to say?"
"The Secret thoughts of man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave and light without shame or blame."
-----Killing Joke, "Requiem"
"Life has confided so many stories in me, I shall have to retell them to people who cannot read the book of life itself."
-----Elly Hillesum
"Oftentimes, to win us harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence."
-----Shakespeare, "Macbeth"
"All the world's a stage
And we are merely players
They have their exits and entrances
And one man in his time plays many parts."
-----Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
"Between two worlds life hovers like a star,
'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge
How little do we know that which we are!
How less what we may be."
-----Lord Byron, "Don Juan"
"What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one bottled from life's page,
To be alone on earth as I am now."
-----Lord Byron, "Chile Harold's Pilgrimage"
Experiance is tha child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action."
"Should the whole frame of nature around him break,
In ruin and in confusion hurled,
He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,
And stand secure amidst a falling world."
-----Horace, "Odes"
"It's motor whirs and colors curl,
Inside your head the monsters whirl."
-----Siouxsie and the Banshees, "Carousel"
Emotional numbing, mass addictions low self esteem, depression, apathy, anomie, stress, all the modern illnesses are symptoms of absured and tragic struggle to bridle instinct. Guilt is engendered by the imperfect ability of humans to suppress the inner rage of the repressed id."
-----Adam Parfrey, "Apocalypse Culture"
It's remarkable how easily the ignorant pass judgment."
-----J.Allen Greiner
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."
-----Socrates,"Phoedrus"
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
-----Socrates
Intellect annuls Fate. So as long as man thinks he is free."
-----Emerson "Conduct of Life:Fate"
"Let everyman be persuaded in his own mind."
-----New Testament: Romans, XIV, 5
"Each mind has it's own method."
-----Emerson, "Essays, First Series: Intellect"
It is impossible to find out what passes the interior of any mans mind."
-----Sydney Smith, "Peter Plymley Letters, No.2"
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