Michael Charles > Michael's Quotes

“I speak only one language, and it is not my own.”
― Jacques Derrida, Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin

“The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“I am perplexed”
― Aleister Crowley

“I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

“Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.”
― Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“ye are Gods”
― bible

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
― George Berkeley

“Better to do nothing than to engage in localized acts whose ultimate function is to make the system run more smoothly. The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on. People intervene all the time, "doing something"; academics participate in meaningless "debates," etc.; but the truly difficult thing is to step back, to withdraw from it all. Those in power often prefer even "critical" participation or a critical dialogue to silence, since to engage us in such a "dialogue" ensures that our ominous passivity is broken. The "Bartlebian act" I propose is violent precisely insofar as it entails ceasing this obsessive activity-in it, violence and non-violence overlap (non-violence appears as the highest violence), likewise activity and inactivity (the most radical thing is to do nothing).”
― Slavoj Žižek, In Defense of Lost Causes

“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Conversations With Ug Krishnamurthi

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”
― Theodor Adorno

“True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”
― Theodor Adorno

“I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

“Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man is a god in ruins.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am God in nature;
I am a weed by the wall.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part of God.”
― Emerson Ralph Waldo

“Love is the absence of Anxiety.”
― Wilhelm Reich

“Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!”
― Immanuel Kant

“Don't follow me, I'm lost.”
― UG Krishnamurti, Thought is Your Enemy: Mind-Shattering Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“The key of joy is disobedience.”
― Aleister Crowley

“Q.= WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU?

U.G = You are what you are doing RIGHT NOW!”
― U.G. Krishnamurti

“What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown”
― Immanuel Kant

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel