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  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    hedonist wrote:
    A few from Daniel Quinn.

    Some are fitting (for what, hmmm), plus I just love his views and how he articulates them.

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    The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.

    No one species shall make the life of the world its own. That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.'

    Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

    :thumbup:
  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    There are only two ways to live your life.
    One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.... - Albert Einstein
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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    I like what you quoted from Quinn, Hedonist!
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    mikalina wrote:
    There are only two ways to live your life.
    One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.... - Albert Einstein
    :D



    though we do not always agree I love this quote!

    “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
    ― Carl Sagan
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    redrock wrote:
    I like what you quoted from Quinn, Hedonist!
    He's had such an impact on my outlook...almost like reiterating what I already knew (or should've known) but getting it fresh, if that makes sense.

    (and I like what you've written ;) )
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    hedonist wrote:
    redrock wrote:
    I like what you quoted from Quinn, Hedonist!
    He's had such an impact on my outlook...almost like reiterating what I already knew (or should've known) but getting it fresh, if that makes sense.

    I think he is a 'must read' author. I guess one could post most pages of his books here - he is so insightful.
    hedonist wrote:
    (and I like what you've written ;) )
    ;) I only wish I could focus my thoughts and master my 'output' enough to one day dream I might reach Quinn's ankle - or even just his little toe! :mrgreen:
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    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

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    redrock wrote:
    hedonist wrote:
    redrock wrote:
    I like what you quoted from Quinn, Hedonist!
    He's had such an impact on my outlook...almost like reiterating what I already knew (or should've known) but getting it fresh, if that makes sense.

    I think he is a 'must read' author. I guess one could post most pages of his books here - he is so insightful.

    I agree, Quinn blew my mind the first time I read him (Ishmael) and he completely changed my way of thinking and looking at the world. Hedonist, I think that you posting him right now is perfect timing considering what's being debated in the Nugent thread.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Hedonist, I think that you posting him right now is perfect timing considering what's being debated in the Nugent thread.

    Thanks, Jeanwah, I think so too.

    "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them ... well, I have others."

    - Groucho Marx
    :mrgreen:
  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.
    -Helen MacInness
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Love, love, love. All you need is love." :D
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • USARAY
    USARAY Posts: 517
    We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are - Talmud.
  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    This one seems appropriate....


    “I disapprove of what you say,

    but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” ....
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    I'm gonna do my best swan dive
    Into shark-infested waters

    I'm gonna pull out my tampon
    And start splashin around

    - Ani DiFranco

    Happy Friday, all!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5fmWaUTHNA
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    hedonist wrote:
    I'm gonna do my best swan dive
    Into shark-infested waters

    I'm gonna pull out my tampon
    And start splashin around

    - Ani DiFranco

    Happy Friday, all!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5fmWaUTHNA

    Happy Friday, Hedonist. :D
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    "Revolutions are the locomotives of history"-Karl Marx
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    “The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.”
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    "Look to the cookie, Elaine. Look to the cookie."
  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits...


    Thomas Jefferson
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  • DriftingByTheStorm
    DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    "Everything else can wait,
    but the search for God cannot wait,
    and love one another."
    - George Harrison,
    favorite saying,
    and final statement
    released by family after his death.
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?

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