Quotes of the Month; June 2024
“The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.”
~Austin Osman Spare; british artist, author and occultist.
“The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.”
~Austin Osman Spare; british artist, author and occultist.
“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
~’Laura’ Jane Addams; american activist, sociologist and author.
“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”
~ Herbert George “H.G.” Wells; british author and so-called “father of science fiction”.
“Dandyism is an aesthetic form of nihilism.”
~Jean Baudrillard; french sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist.
“I’m kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there’s some point where it doesn’t allow for the complexity of things.”
~Kim ‘Althea’ Gordon; american musician, singer-songwriter and artist.
“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.”
~Samuel ‘Langhorne’ Clemens “Mark Twain”; american author, humorist and lecturer.
“Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.”
~Lafayette Ronald Hubbard; american author and founder of scientology.
“They, that unnamed ‘they,’ they’ve knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I’ve long ago named them me.”
~Gregory ‘Nunzio’ Corso; american poet, author and youngest of the Beat generation bohemians.
“It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.”
~Stephen ‘Edwin’ King; american author and producer.
“You teach best what you most need to learn.”
~Richard ‘David’ Bach; american author, philosopher and pilot.