Quote of the Month; May….2008
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
~Arthur Schopenhauer; german author and philosopher.
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Quote of the Month; April….2008
“A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
~Adlai Stevenson II; american politician and diplomat.
Quote of the Month; March….2008
“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”
~ Timothy Leary; american scientist, philosopher and psychonaut.
Quote of the Month; February…2008
“We are motion itself, we are eternal revolution. We shall never allow ourselves to be held down to one permanent condition.”
Quote of the Month; January…2008
“We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat”
~Terence McKenna; american author, psychonaut and philosopher.
Quote of the month; December…2007
“Magic, practiced more assiduously than hygiene in Morocco, through ecstatic dancing to the music of the secret brotherhoods, is, there, a form of psychic hygiene. You know your music when you hear it, one day. You fall into line and dance until you pay the piper.”
~Brion Gysin; british-canadian painter, poet, writer, performance artist and magician.
Quote of the month; November…2007.
“The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one’s mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life…”
~”George Orwell” (Eric Arthur Blair); british novelist and essayist.
Quote of the month; October….2007
“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”
~Aldous Huxley; british author, satirist and philosopher.
Quote of the month; September…2007.
“All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It’s like an ideal of racial purity.”
~Derek Jarman; british director, writer, artist and activist.
Quote o’ the Month; August….2007.
“the organism understands what the mind requires, and fulfills those intentions”
~ Chad Keeton; american artist, musician and critic.