The Infinite Contradiction of Endless Hope.: November 2009

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Favorite Quotes and Words of Wisdom

Each of us exists within four prisons. First is the prison imposed on us by history and geography; from this confinement, we can escape only by gaining knowledge of science and technology. Second is the prison of history; our freedom comes when we understand how historical forces operate. The third prison is our society's social and class structure; from this prison, only a revolutionary ideology can provide the way to liberation. The final prison is the self. Each of us is composed of good and evil elements, and we must choose between them.
-Ali Shariati, Iranian Philosopher

Be kinder than usual for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle...
-Unknown

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
-Bertrand Russel

Those who make peaceful resolution impossible, makes violent resolution inevitable.
-Unknown (taken from a Rise Against music video)

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

-Berlioz

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool. Shun him. He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child. Teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep. Wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is a leader. Follow him.
-Omar Khayam, 13th Century philosopher

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
-CS Lewis

"The hardest thing in this world is to live in it."-Buffy

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”-Friedrich Nietzsche

Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born.
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
We are led to believe a lie
When we see not through the eye
Which was born in a night to perish in a night,
When the soul slept in beams of light.
God appears, and God is light
To those poor souls who dwell in night,
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day.
-William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
-Tyler Durden, 'Fight Club' (I'll write a post on why I love this quote)

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