Favorite Quotes

[couch-potato]

Originally Posted by *rogue*

My cynical, realistic side of me is telling me there is no way on earth a raver reads up on Nietzche or Voltaire, and you just quickly copy-pasted some quotes you found online.

But my hopeful, optimistic side is impressed and delighted.

But I do! My favorite works of Nietzsche are Beyond Good & Evil and Thus Spoke Zarathustra (which is essentially the same philosophical thought as Beyond Good & Evil, but is written in a rather light-hearted format). As for Voltaire, Candide is pretty good shit. Also his written letters to the royalty of Europe during the Enlightenment are very inspiring, he was just a guy who wasn't afraid to think, and the queen of Russia called him the champion of the human race. Now that is something I'd want to strive for in my life.

I love theoretical physics as well - while rolling at How Sweet It Is, I ended up being lost in thinking about of quantum mechanics. Heisenberg and Bohr are fucking Gs man.

[Lucid]

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
-Gautama Buddha

“The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.”
-Bill Hicks (R.I.P)

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”
-Aristotle

“Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
-Sam Keen

[Naomi]

Originally Posted by *rogue*

My cynical, realistic side of me is telling me there is no way on earth a raver reads up on Nietzche or Voltaire, and you just quickly copy-pasted some quotes you found online.

But my hopeful, optimistic side is impressed and delighted.

There are ravers who are philosophers.

I would happen to be one.
So is Desyne.

[Klover]

Originally Posted by LuSiD

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
-Gautama Buddha

“The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.”
-Bill Hicks (R.I.P)


“Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
-Sam Keen

FUCKIN LOOOOVE THESE.

[bshieh]

Originally Posted by *rogue*

My cynical, realistic side of me is telling me there is no way on earth a raver reads up on Nietzche or Voltaire, and you just quickly copy-pasted some quotes you found online.

But my hopeful, optimistic side is impressed and delighted.

voltaire is my hero. he's the only one who's ever made religion make sense to me.

nietzche... the only work of his that i've thoroughly read, and analyzed, is beyond good and evil, so i can't say much about him.




anyone read khalil gibran? i have to dig out my copy of the prophet so i can post some of my favorite passages... (definitely a worthy read. GO READ IT)

[Antranik]

Tight thread klover.

I liked the spongebob and half baked quotes for kicks, haha

There's possibly a thousand good quotes, here's a few...

"Conflict cannot survive without your participation." - Wayne Dyer

"All attack is a call for help" - A Course in Miracles

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” - Mahatma Gandhi

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.” - Mahatma Gandhi


And something I discovered recently called the "Serenity Prayer".. I really like it...

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
-Reinhold Niebuhr

[Slip N Slide]

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." -Voltaire

[Scoop]

A lot of these are quotes from song lyrics; i'm bored.



"Cause the streets is a short stop/ Either you slingin crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot" - BIG

"whats the most important thing in uncle howie's life?
drugs, drugs and music." - non phixion

"Yeah; I leave scientists mentally scarred -- triple extra large
Wild like rock stars who smash guitars
Poison bars from the Gods bust holes in your mirage
and catch a charge shake em down like the riot squad
And they deserve ruin like ancient Rome; I span the universe
and return to Earth to claim my throne
The maker, owner, plus soul controller
Ayatollah rest in the sky, the cloud's my sofa
Stand like Colossus, regardless to whom or what
Numerous attempts at my life, so who to trust
Who but us, to supply you with the fire?
The burning truth, 150 Absolut proof
On the mic like Moses spoke in golden scribe
Survivor of the oldest tribe whose soldiers died
I notified families, we shed tears and more
but our hands are the ammo cause the battle's still on
Sound the horn; we come rumblin through the function
Precise laser beam technique to touch somethin
When we die hard, to build the monument to honor us with
humungous effect in the world we could have conquered it" - Inspectah Deck

"Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we get high
Cause you never know when you're gonna go" - Nas

"When I was little, my father was famous. He was the greatest Samurai in the empire, and he was the Shogun's decapitator. He cut off the heads of 131 lords for the Shogun. It was a bad time for the empire. The Shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out. People said his brain was infected by devils, and that he was rotting with evil. The Shogun said the people were not loyal. He said he had a lot of enemies, but he killed more people than that. It was a bad time. Everybody living in fear, but still we were happy. My father would come home to mother, and when he had seen her, he would forget about the killings. He wasn't scared of the Shogun, but the Shogun was scared of him. Maybe that was the problem. At night, mother would sing for us, while father would go into his temple and pray for peace. He'd pray for things to get better. Then, one night the Shogun sent his ninja spies to our house. They were supposed to kill my father, but they didn't. That was the night everything changed, forever. That was when my father left his samurai life and became a demon. He became an assassin who walks the road of vengeance. And he took me with him. I don't remember most of this myself. I only remember the Shogun's ninja hunting us wherever we go. And the bodies falling. And the blood. " - Shogun Assassin

"You watch those nature documentaries on the cable? You see the one about lions? You got this lion. He's the king of the jungle, huge mane out to here. He's laying under a tree, in the middle of Africa. He's so big, it's so hot. He doesn't want to move. Now the little lions come, they start messing with him. Biting his tail, biting his ears. He doesn't do anything. The lioness, she starts messing with him. Coming over, making trouble. Still nothing. Now the other animals, they notice this. They start to move in. The jackals; hyenas. They're barking at him, laughing at him. They nip his toes, and eat the food that's in his domain. They do this, then they get closer and closer, bolder and bolder. Till one day, that lion gets up and tears the shit out of everybody. Runs like the wind, eats everything in his path. Cause every once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals, who he is. " - Poolhall Junkies


"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure" - Darrow

"Let's take a walk threw the deepest part of the hood
I wanna know who it was that said it was all good
He must of never been to the corner, and spent the half an hour
Longer, where you could smell reality stronger
Where they sell you grease in a box and hope that you die quicker
And if your old enough to walk to the store you can buy liqour
Where you can find a dice game at any time of the night
And somebody gets shot or stabbed every time theres a fight
Where cats die in the blue sky in the sunlight
And ya bound to get clowned for not holdin ya gun right
By little kids with great game cause they learned to take aim
At a young age, and to allude police, with a fake name
Hes tellin him, i'm Bobby Jackson from 3-B
When the fact is he's really Rashun from 4-D
Hey this is going out to your hood straight from mine
Ayyo, lets take a walk in blue skys and sunshine

Blue skys, sunshine
What a day to take a walk in a.." - Masta Ace


"Paralyzed on the bathroom floor by pain
Last month I endured
But now I can't ignore
Feels like rail road spikes being stuck in my liver
And my dyin eyes cryin', body startin to shiver
Crawl upstairs from the basement callin my sister
*sniff* Dawn, help me, I ain't feelin to healthy
Stomach walls burnin
Head spinnin and turnin
Waitin for the EMS 3:10 in the mournin
Rush me to emergency screamin like a newborn
The pain's to strong maybe my souls tryin to move on
He hooked me to the i.v.
Put me through some x-rays
Gave me demerol to kill the pain that was the next phase
Early the next day in a hospital room
Moms and Pops in the room
3 or 4 docs in the room
My test results suggest "Your colon and your liver is so cancerous"
You got 3 months left
Me and death is playin chess
Ever since then
My strength is the most high,my fam and close friends
The Last Emp been sent free blessed me with a verse
Stayin healthy comes first, look at me, things can be worse" - Poetic (RIP)

"Cash rules everything around me; Cream get the money, dolla dolla bill yall" - Wu tang clan

left out a lot of bill hicks and joe rogan quotes.

[PhoenixXx_X]

"Too weird to live, to rare to die." -Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

BUM: "You gotta quarta?"
ME: "You gotta dolla?"

[Klover]

bump this back up.

i love this thread, as simple as it is.

ive already found more favorites/quotes i'd forgotten.

great place i can always go back to for more.

Originally Posted by PhoenixXx_X

"Too weird to live, to rare to die." -Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

BUM: "You gotta quarta?"
ME: "You gotta dolla?"

lol you so would.

and i've had that convo with a bum before to.

along with him asking me for weed and vice versa.

TTLG...lets fuckin chill.

[sputnik]

"The magic of sex is it's aquisition without the burden of possessions." - From Chuck Palahniuk's Choke

[bshieh]

and when you go, run, don't walk
and when you sing, scream, don't talk.