The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. —Salvador Dali More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own. —Thomas Friedman More about this quote Tags: understanding difference logic mistake math Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss. —William Carlos Williams More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. —Yasutani Roshi More about this quote Tags: delusion humanity commonality difference Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. —Raymond Carver More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our lives don't really belong to us, you see — they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding. —Paul Auster More about this quote Tags: understanding life ownership effort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nonattachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life. —Stephen Levine More about this quote Tags: feeling mind presence desire nonattachment spaciousness witness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He [writer and Trappist monk Thomas Merton] wasn't a dour monk at all. . . . I often went down to visit him at the monastery in Kentucky. The abbott would give him a day off, and I'd rent a car. . . . We would stop in the woods and he'd change into his farm worker's blue jeans and a beret to hide his tonsure. Then we'd hit the bars across Kentucky. He loved beer, and he loved that smoked ham they have down there. He was a wonderful person. He wanted to read contemporary writers, but the books were often confiscated, so we had a secret system. I sent the books he wanted to the monastery psychiatrist in Louisville, who would get them to Merton. . . . Once I asked him, "Tom, why do you stay here? You could get out and be a tremendous success in the world. " He answered that the monastery was where God wanted him to be. —James Laughlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There it is. I don't believe in anything, but I'm always glad to wake up in the morning. It doesn't depress me. I'm never depressed. My basic nervous system is filled with this optimism. It's mad, I know, because it's optimism about nothing. I think of life as meaningless and yet it excites me. I always think something marvelous is about to happen. —Francis Bacon More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness. . . . The whole show has been on fire from the word go. —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: creation universe extravagence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do. —Lena Horne More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That was a very racy remark for Gladys, whose idea of wild sex was Fred Astaire loosening his tie. —Susan Isaacs More about this quote Tags: sex Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I close your ear with kisses and seal your nostrils, and round your neck you'll wear — nay, let me work — a delicate chain of kisses. Like beads they go around and not one misses to touch its fellow on either side. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people — and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once. —Kathleen Winsor More about this quote Tags: people death birth sex Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: women men hats chase Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email