Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowsky

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

In a dying culture, narcissism embodies the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment.

Christopher Lasch

As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

Hunter S Thompson

We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the hallucination, you see it for what it’s worth.

Terence McKenna

I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.

Dylan Thomas

The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn’t interest you.

Charles Bukowsky

La política es el camino para que los hombres sin principios puedan dirigir a los hombres sin memoria.

Voltaire

Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.

George Carlin

We can keep ourselves so busy, fill our lives with so many diversions, stuff our heads with so much knowledge, involve ourselves with so many people and cover so much ground that we never have time to probe the fearful and wonderful world within… By middle life most of us are accomplished fugitives from ourselves.

John Gardner

One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

Carl Gustav Jung

When people can’t handle God anymore, they turn to religion.

Erich Fromm

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Aldous Huxley

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Carl Gustav Jung

…colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time…

Jack Kerouac

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.

Irvin D Yalom

Science and the pursuit of knowledge have no country, no religion, and no political affiliation.

Richard Feynman

La historia ocurre dos veces: la primera vez como una tragedia y la segunda como una farsa.

Karl Marx, El Dieciocho Brumario de Luis Bonaparte

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us «Universe», a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish the delusion but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.
Albert Einstein, mentioned in a 1950 letter of condolence to Robert Marcus

Llaman falsamente paz a lo que no es sino una miserable sumisión.

Tacito, Historias, IV

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Albert Camus

When something bothered me, I didn’t talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to
a conclusion, and took action alone.
Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that’s just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.

Haruki Murakami

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Oscar Wilde

Nada contribuye más a la claridad y firmeza de las ideas que la ignorancia.
El escepticismo y las dudas no vienen con la edad o el elitismo contrariado, sino con el estudio o la experiencia. Lo que el devoto llama «traición» es sólo el derecho a ser hoy menos tonto que ayer. El feligrés, en cambio, se enorgullece de no aprender jamás.

Fernando Savater

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Hermann Hesse

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

Sylvia Plath

If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us.

Lucille Feynman, Richard Feynman’s mother, after Omni magazine named him the world’s smartest man

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

Richard Feynman

All I can do is be me,
whoever that is.

Bob Dylan

Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

CS Lewis

If your ideals ignore reason, your instincts will ignore restraint.

GK Chesterton

Los libros solo tienen dos olores: el olor a nuevo, que es bueno, y el olor a usado, que es todavía mejor.

Ray Bradbury

Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Hell is other people.

Jean Paul Sartre

La única manera de lidiar con este mundo sin libertad es volverte tan absolutamente libre que tu mera existencia sea un acto de rebelión.

Albert Camus

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Jean Paul Sartre

Sabemos que nos mienten
Ellos saben que mienten.
Ellos saben que sabemos que nos mienten.
Sabemos que ellos saben que sabemos que nos mienten.
Y sin embargo, siguen mintiendo.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

Fedor Dostoievsky

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Hunter S Thompson

I’m a fucking bad example, a very bad one. But I would say that our fans don’t need any bad examples to a large extent. They’re quite capable of being completely obnoxious degenerates all by themselves. God bless em!

Shane MacGowan

Todo aquello que el hombre ignora, no existe para él, por eso, el universo de cada uno, se resume al tamaño de su saber.

Albert Einstein

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Gustav Jung

De cien hombres apenas hallaremos uno solo que resulte digno de entablar una discusión. En lo que respecta a los otros, hay que dejar que digan lo que se les cruza por la cabeza, puesto que es un derecho del hombre ser idiota.

Arthur Schopenhauer

¿Qué es el tiempo? Siempre podremos decir, como San Agustín: «Si no me lo preguntan, lo sé. Si me lo preguntan, lo ignoro». No sé si al cabo de veinte o treinta siglos de meditación hemos avanzado mucho en el problema del tiempo. Yo diría que siempre sentimos esa antigua perplejidad, esa que sintió mortalmente Heráclito en aquel ejemplo al que vuelvo siempre: nadie baja dos veces al mismo río. ¿Por qué nadie baja dos veces al mismo río? En primer término, porque las aguas del río fluyen. En segundo término —esto es algo que ya nos toca metafísicamente, que nos da como un principio de horror sagrado—, porque nosotros mismos somos también un río, nosotros también somos fluctuantes. El problema del tiempo es ése. Es el problema de lo fugitivo: el tiempo pasa. Vuelvo a recordar aquel hermoso verso de Boileau: «El tiempo pasa en el momento en que algo ya está lejos de mí». Mi presente —o lo que era mi presente— ya es el pasado. Pero ese tiempo que pasa, no pasa enteramente. Por ejemplo, yo conversé con ustedes el viernes pasado. Podemos decir que somos otros, ya que nos han pasado muchas cosas a todos nosotros en el curso de una semana. Sin embargo, somos los mismos. Yo sé que estuve disertando aquí, que estuve tratando de razonar y de hablar aquí, y ustedes quizá recuerden haber estado conmigo la semana pasada. En todo caso, queda en la memoria. La memoria es individual. Nosotros estamos hechos, en buena parte, de nuestra memoria. Esa memoria está hecha, en buena parte, de olvido.

Jorge Luis Borges. El Tiempo, Oral (1979)

La soledad es el lugar más seguro que conozco.

Edgar Allan Poe

You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death

Hunter S Thompson

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sólo entre gente de bien puede existir la amistad, ya que la gente perversa sólo tienen cómplices; la gente interesada tiene socios; la gente política, tiene partidarios; la gente de la realeza tiene cortesanos; únicamente la gente buena, tiene amigos.

Voltaire

We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, will blow up in our faces.

Carl Sagan

It is also a habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at table and in society; citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition.

Aristóteles

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Richard Feynman

Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don’t let people bring you down. Study, think, create, and grow. Teach yourself and teach others.

Richard Feynman

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Werner Heisenberg

The leaders of the past were insufficient,
the leaders of the present are unprepared.
we curl up tightly in our beds at night and wait.
it is a waiting without hope, more like
a prayer for unmerited grace.

Charles Bukowsky

Si el último día no te encuentra vencedor, que te encuentre al menos luchando.

San Agustín

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

You will never find Justice in a world where criminals make the rules.

Bob Marley

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

According to Sumerian mythology, the flood was the punishment the gods inflicted on man because of the noise he made. —What would I not give to know how they will reward him for today’s racket?

Emil M Cioran

War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

Ernest Hemingway

What we call religion is merely organized belief, with its dogmas, rituals, mysteries and superstitions. Each religion has its own sacred book, its mediator, its priests and its ways of threatening and holding people.

Most of us have been conditioned to all this, which is considered religious education; but this conditioning sets man against man, it creates antagonism, not only among the believers, but also against those of other beliefs.

Though all religions assert that they worship God and say that we must love one another, they instill fear through their doctrines of reward and punishment, and through their competitive dogmas they perpetuate suspicion and antagonism.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Wars teach us nothing, not even how to conquer our fears. We are still cave men. Democratic cave men, perhaps, but that is small comfort. Our fight is to get out of the cave. If we were to make the least effort in that direction we would inspire the whole world.

Henry Miller

You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?

Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there. It’s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves.

I’ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That’s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.»

Charles Bukowsky

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.

Rupert Sheldrake

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Gore Vidal

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die — although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.

Erich Fromm

La voluntad es esclava del deseo, solo la inteligencia te permite renunciar a lo que te apetece para hacer lo que debes.

Antonio Escohotado

Civilized life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.

JG Ballard

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

Modern Western democracies no longer engage in such despotic assaults on freedom. Instead, they deprive people of liberty indirectly, by relieving them of responsibility for their own (allegedly self-injurious) actions and calling the intervention «treatment.”

Thomas Szasz

Venceréis porque tenéis sobrada fuerza bruta, pero no convenceréis porque convencer significa persuadir. Y para persuadir necesitáis algo que os falta: razón y derecho.

Miguel de Unamuno

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

Albert Camus

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.”

Kurt Vonnegut

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we’ll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

Jean Genet

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of a secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty.

James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

Nikola Tesla

Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Edward Abbey

My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy… The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

J R R Tolkien

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin

Bolshevism and Big Business are very much alike; they are both built on the truth that everything is easy and simple if once you eliminate liberty. And the real irreconcilable enemy of both is what may be called Small Business.

GK Chesterton

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.

Fedor Dostoievsky

Nuestras convicciones más arraigadas, más indubitables, son las más sospechosas. Ellas constituyen nuestro límite, nuestros confines, nuestra prisión.

José Ortega y Gasset

Quien recibe lo que merece, pocas veces lo agradece.

Francisco de Quevedo

El Estado es una institución manejada por un grupo de asesinos, saqueadores y ladrones, rodeado de ávidos verdugos, propagandistas, aduladores, malhechores, mentirosos, payasos, charlatanes e idiotas útiles; una institución que ensucia y mancha todo lo que toca.

H H Hoppe

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Bertrand Russell

Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

Maya Angelou

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

Goethe

Nada más natural, ecológico y biológico que la bacteria del cólera, y nada más artificial, sintético y químico que el cloro. Pero gracias al agua clorada no morimos del cólera.

Francisco Grande Covián

Los pastores serán brutales mientras las ovejas sean estúpidas.

Fray Luis de León

Todas las setas son comestibles, lo que pasa es que algunas solo te las puedes comer una vez.

Terry Pratchett

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation…

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves…

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Eric Hoffer

El éxito consiste en obtener lo que se desea. La felicidad, en disfrutar lo que se obtiene.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

La libertad no consiste en tener un buen amo, sino en no tenerlo.

Marco Tulio Cicerón

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm, but the harm [that they cause] does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

TS Eliot

Cada persona necesita aprender desde la infancia cómo pasar tiempo con uno mismo. No significa que uno deba ser solitario sino que no debiera aburrirse consigo mismo porque si se aburre en su propia compañía está en peligro en lo que a su autoestima se refiere.

Andrei Tarkovsky

La política es el arte de servirse de los hombres haciéndoles creer que se les sirve a ellos.

Louis Dumur

Si comenzamos una pelea entre el pasado y el presente, nos daremos cuenta de que habremos perdido nuestro futuro.

Winston Churchill