Quotaphilia

[arminius]

“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does

oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight

when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it

is in such twilight that we all must be most aware

of change in the air – however slight – lest we

become unwitting victims of the darkness.”

–Justice of the Supreme Court, William O. Douglas​

 

[arminius]

All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)​

 

[arminius]

“We are not
human beings having a spiritual experience -
We are spirit beings having a human experience.”
~ Pierre Teilliard des Chardins ~​

 

[arminius]

"You want to know what they hate more than anything else in life? They can't stand for people not to take them seriously. If you laugh at them for an instant, it's just like – the devil walks in the room, right? And he goes, "I'm the Devil," and you take a fork and poke him in the belly, and the gas comes out, and he'll go twirling around the room like an unleashed balloon. That's the way these guys are. You can't laugh at them. They hate it, because they're so full of shit, they're so full of themselves that they just can't believe that people don't appreciate them for the grand, highly evolved creatures that they imagine themselves to be. They hate to be laughed at. If they weren't so fucking dangerous, it would be fun to laugh at them all the time, but sometimes you have to take into account how much damage they can do." -Frank Zappa