He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.
The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of.
The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.
Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be.
In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn.
When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.
Choosing to forgo the small rewards of society now will lead to the monumental rewards of becoming a person of value later.
When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.
I have no interest in dying. But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me.
It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body. Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.
To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.
Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.
Are we Human? Or are we dancer? My sign is vital, My hands are cold, And I'm on my knees, begging for the answer, To are we Human? Or are we Dancer?
Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.
Çoğu insan Kafka'nın ihtiyarına benzer. Umut ederler ama yüreklerinin sesini, itkisini dinleme ve ona göre davranma yetisinden yoksundurlar; bürokratlar onlara yeşil ışık yakmadığı sürece beklerler de beklerler.
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn't for *that*, what is it for?
We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.
I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.
Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha. 'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om.
