We all bring home our drawings to stick on refrigerators and things like that, but in the future we won't stick them on refrigerators, we will stick them in our website. And everything will go into our website. And by the time we're 25 or something, our website will be the size of the American Museum of Natural History. And you can wander through it. And as a gesture of intimacy you can invite someone else to wander through it.

—Terrence McKenna

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

—William S. Burroughs

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

If one were to pick anyone up at random and study him intensely enough in all the ramifications of his life, we would get the whole story of man.

—Joe Gould

One must give something of oneself to the devil that one may live.

—W.B. Yeats

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work.

—Gustave Flaubert

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

—Edward Abbey

Love, and do what you will.

—Augustine

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

—Blaise Pascal

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.

—Henry David Thoreau

If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a lifetime, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.

—Annie Dillard

Don’t work for my happiness, show my yours, show me that it is possible—show me your achievement—and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

—Ayn Rand

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

—Theodore Roethke

Perhaps it requires more courage to do what you really want to do than what you believe you ought to do.

—Edward Abbey

Take away the paradox from the thinker, and you have a professor.

—Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it’s made by one central idea, and the idea sets every detail.

—Ayn Rand

The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing… He must obey his own law, as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths.

—Carl Jung

Don't be afraid of discontent, but give it nourishment until the spark becomes a flame and you are everlastingly discontented with everything - with your jobs, with your families, with the traditional pursuit of money, position, power - so that you really begin to think, to discover. But as you grow older you will find that to maintain this spirit of discontent is very difficult. You have children to provide for and the demands of your job to consider; the opinion of your neighbours, of society closing in upon you, and soon you begin to lose this burning flame of discontent. When you feel discontented you turn on the radio, you go to a guru, do puja, join a club, drink, run after women - anything to smother the flame. But, you see, without this flame of discontent you will never have the initiative which is the beginning of creativeness. To find out what is true you must be in revolt against the established order; but the more money your parents have and the more secure your teachers are in their jobs, the less they want you to revolt.

Creativeness is not merely a matter of painting pictures or writing poems, which is good to do, but which is very little in itself. What is important is to be wholly discontented, for such total discontent is the beginning of the initiative which becomes creative as it matures; and that is the only way to find out what is truth, what is God, because the creative state is God.

So one must have this total discontent - but with joy. Do you understand? One must be wholly discontented, not complainingly, but with joy, with gaiety, with love. Most people who are discontented are terrible bores; they are always complaining that something or other is not right, or wishing they were in a better position, or wanting circumstances to be different, because their discontent is very superficial. And those who are not discontented at all are already dead.

If you can be in revolt while you are young, and as you grow older keep your discontent alive with the vitality of joy and great affection, then that flame of discontent will have an extraordinary significance because it will build, it will create, it will bring new things into being.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti

Ουτε λεγει, ουτε κρύπτει, αλλα σημαινει.

—Heraclitus