“Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
~Carlos Castenada; american author and philosopher.
“New carriers and springboard publishers will emerge to herald and forge the zeitgeist paradigm pulse. That’s why the underground always regenerates itself like a groove compost heep.”
~Ray Castle; british techno shaman, trance theologian, existential electro alchemist, meta magician and DJ.
“Without obsession, life is nothing.”
~John Waters; american movie director, bad taste aficionado and guru of trash.
“Take a chance, deny control, love someone and see what happens”
~Genesis Breyer P-Orridge; british musician, mystic and artist.
“Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.”
~ Joseph Campbell; american author, philosopher and mystic.
“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.”
~ Slavoj Zizek; slovenian professor and philosopher.
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”
~ Allen Ginsburg; american author, poet, activist and social critic.
“Where the vulgar laugh, the philosopher admires; and the philosopher laughs where the vulgar open their big stupid eyes in astonishment.”
~ Voltaire; french author, historian, philosopher and satirist.
“Nothing was holy to us. Our movement was neither mystical, communistic, nor anarchistic. All of these movements had some sort of program, but ours was completely nihilistic. Our symbol was nothingness, a vacuum, a void…”
~ George Grosz; german artist and DaDa proponent.
“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!”
~ H. P. Lovecraft; american author of weird, science, fantasy and horror fiction.