______________________________ Terrible is the temptation to be good.-Bertolt Brecht _______________________________ Man seldom,or rather,never for a length of time and deliberately,rebels against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.//// Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.-Thomas Carlyle ________________________ Every law is an infraction of liberty.-Jeremy Bentham ________________________________ Puritan tradition,combined with Christian management,has converted the sexual life of civilized men and women into a neurosis.-Robert Briffault _________________________________ Beauty is unbearable...offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity we should like to stretch over the whole of time.//// To think is,first of all,to create a world(or to limit one's own world,which comes to the same thing)-Albert Camus _______________________________ Life is not an exact science,it is an art.//// As long as there will be an unknown...there will be a God-Samuel Butler ______________________________________________ They create a desolation and call it peace.-Calgacus ____________________________________ Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.///// ...for a conscious being to exist is to change,to change is to mature,to mature is to go on creating one's self endlessly.-Sir Isaiah Berlin ________________________________________ Except as it's clown and jester,society does not encourage individuality,and the state abhors it.//// The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.-Bernard Berenson ______________________________________ If the fool would persist in his folly,he would become wise./// Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. If moral virtue was Christianity,Christ's pretensions were all vanity./// The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, & breeds reptiles of the mind. He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence./// The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's royal crown.-William Blake ______________________________________________ The medium is the message because it it is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and forms of human association and action.//// All media exists to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.//// Class in society is determined by voice.America is the only country ever founded on the printed word./// Unlike previous environmental changes,the electric media constitutes of a near instantaneous transformation of culture,values and attitudes./// The electronic age...angelizes man,disembodies him...turns him into software.//// there are no remote places.Under instant circuitry,nothing is remote in time or in space.It's now.//// In the electric age, we wear all mankind as our skin./// In the 80's, as we transfer our whole being to the data bank,privacy will become a ghost or echo of it's former self and what remains of community will disappear./// I think a great deal of the confusion and misery of our time is related to the fact that people are still trying to find goals in a world that is moving so fast that no possible goal could remain in focus for more than ten seconds.-Marshall Mcluhan _______________________________________ If there is a state,there is domination,and in turn,there is slavery. The passion for destruction is a creative passion.-Mikhail Bakunin _______________________________________ To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and great proof of being alive./// Masses make movements.Individualities explode them.//// Alas is even love too weak, to unlock the heart,and let it speak?Are even lovers powerless to reveal to one another what indeed they feel?I knew the mass of men conceal'd their thoughts,for fear that if reveal'd they would by other men be met with blank indifference, or with blame reprov'd I knew they liv'd and mov'd,Trick'd in disguises,alien to the rest of men and alien to themselves-and yet,the same heart beats in every human breast. The will is free:strong is the soul,and wise ,and beautiful:the seeds of godlike power are in us still:Gods are we,Bards,Saints,Heroes if we will.-Matthew Arnold ___________________________________ We cannot learn without pain./// All art is concerned with coming into being.//// in a word,the type of character produced by wealth is that of a prosperous fool.//// Life is doing things not making things.The happy life is thought to be virtuous;now a virtuous life requires exertion,and does not consist in amusement./// To percieve is to suffer./// ...most men,and men of the most vulgar type,seem(not without some ground)to identify the good,or happiness with pleasure;which is the reason they love the life of enjoyment./// The life of money making is one undertaken under compulsion,andd wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking;for it is merely useful for the sake of something else.-Aristotle ______________________________________ I expect that woman will be the last thing civilized by man.-George meredith _______________________________________ ...the way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing;if anything is dead,it can only be the traditional thought of God./// Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs-statistcally speaking the most powerful./// Unthinking men are like sleepwalkers.-Hannah Arendt ________________________________________ When any creativity becomes useful,it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism;and when a thing becomes commercial,it becomes the enemy of man.-Arthur Miller __________________________________ No nation is wise enough to rule another./// Security is mostly a superstition.It does not exist in nature...life is either a daring adventure or nothing./// the country is governed for the richest,for the corporations,the bankers,the land speculators,and for the exploiters.-Helen Keller ____________________________________ the artist,like the god of creation,remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork,invisible,refined out of existence,indifferent...paring his fingernails.//// "A father",Stephen said,"battling against hopelessness is a necessary evil."-James Joyce _____________________________________ All personal secrets have the effect of sin or guilt./// Called or not called,God is present.-Carl Jung ______________________________________ We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge,but also because we have not yet eaten of the tree of Life./// youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.Anyone who has the capacity to see beauty never grows old.-Franz Kafka _______________________________________ If a man shall begin in certainties,he shall end in doubts;but if he shall be content to begin with doubts,he shall end in certainties.-Francis Bacon _______________________________________ The standing miracle of this world is little thought of,because always before us...For man himself is a greater miracle than any miracle done through his instrumentality.-Saint Augustine _______________________________________________ A man who hasn't discovered something he would die for isn't fit to live-MLK............. ____________________________________________________ THE GREAT MAN IS HE WHO DOES NOT LOSE HIS CHILD'S HEART.-Mencius _________________________________