Quote o’ the Month – January….2013
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
~Albert Einstein; german theoretical physicist and philosopher.
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
~Albert Einstein; german theoretical physicist and philosopher.
“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.”
~Emma Goldman; russian anarchist, activist and author.
“It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.”
~Nikolai Gogol; russo-ukranian author and playwright.
“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”
~ Salvador Dali; spanish Surrealist painter and visual artist.
“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”
~ James Joyce; irish author, poet and critic.
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
~Aristotle; ancient greek philosopher and polymath.
“i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror — everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia, shit-for-brains, sub-reptilian ennui of totalitarian regimes, banal censorship & useless pain …”
~Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson); american anarchist author and poet.
“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.”
~Abbie Hoffman; american author, political and social activist.
“I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.”
~J G Ballard; british science fiction author.
“I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.”
~Alfred Hitchcock; british producer, screenwriter and director.