Notable Quotable 319

Aug 26, 2024

Anarchy is an old Greek word, constituting of two parts: “an-”, a prefix meaning without or the absence of and the suffix “archon,” which means rulers, kings, masters... Being in a private property society means that we do live in anarchy.

- Max Hillebrand

The public demands certainties. But there are no certainties.

- H. L. Mencken

When you ask most people to lie flat on the floor and relax, you find that they are full of tension. It’s because they don’t really believe that the floor will hold them up, and therefore they’re holding themselves together. They’re uptight. They’re afraid that if they don’t do this, even though the floor is supporting them, they’ll suddenly turn into a gelatinous mass and trickle away in all directions. Then there are other people, when you tell them to relax, they go like a limp rag. Bleeah!

But, you see, the human organism is a subtle combination of hardness and softness, of flesh and bones. And the side of Zen which has to do with neither doing nor not doing, but knowing that you are It anyway, and you don’t have to seek It, that’s Zen flesh. But the side in which you can come back into the world with this attitude of not seeking, and knowing you’re It, and not fall apart, that requires bones.

- Alan Watts, Zen Bones

A man does not exist in order to do something; he does something in order to exist.

- G.K. Chesterton

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

- Ayn Rand

Being truthful when you know it will cost you, is the true test of honesty.

- Dave Weinbaum

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

- H. L Mencken

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

- Albert Schweitzer

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

- J Donald Waters

I have never voted in my life… I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it’s certain they will win.

- Louis-Ferdinand Céline