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I think; therefore I am.
Created on 2006-06-17 03:09:24 (#10470013), last updated 2009-06-13
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Basic Info| Name: | Shay |
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| Birthdate: | 1987-12-29 |
| Location: | New Zealand (Aotearoa) |
| Website: | http://rescogitans23.wordpress.com/ |
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I am currently in my final year at University, studying for a Film & Media Studies degree...and it is a choice which, despite being a huge "film buff" for most of my life, I am now regretting as I am much more interested in Philosophy. Next year I intend to travel and see the world before we all blow each other up ;) Now I'm going to let my choice of favourite quotes speak for themselves... |
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” - Cecil Beaton "Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."- Rene Descartes "The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself." - Rita Mae Brown "In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable." - Sigmund Freud "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman "The most violent element in society is ignorance. " - Emma Goldman "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. "-Albert Einstein "Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."-Thomas Edison “Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.” -Eleanor Roosevelt "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." -Oscar Wilde "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Friedrich Nietzsche “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”- Karl Marx “Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand”- Marx “Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex”- Marx "Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think." - Emma Goldman "To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." - Benjamin Disraeli "All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." - Noam Chomsky "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought, which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard "If you don't control your mind, someone else will." - John Allston "To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated over, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither right, nor knowledge, nor virtue." - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon "The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime." - Max Stirner "The only demand that property recognizes is its own gluttonous appetite for greater wealth, because wealth means power; the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade."- Emma Goldman "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 "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it."- Upton Sinclair “Be who you are & say what you feel, because those who mind, don’t matter and those who matter, don’t mind” –Dr. Seuss "To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight and never stop fighting" -E.E. Cummings "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." -George Santaynna "What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson "There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking"- Daniel Plainview (TWBB) |
Jimmy Eat World, Yellowcard, Dashboard Confessional, Radiohead, Justin Timberlake, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, Muse, Placebo, Matchbox 20, Linkin Park, Jeff Buckley, Sublime, The Verve, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Live, Stereophonics, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Lifehouse, Sarah Maclachlan, Death cab for cutie, Pearl Jam, Alanis Morissette, Melissa Etheridge, Journey, Bon Jovi, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jefferson Airplane, Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Anna Nalick, Goo Goo Dolls, David Gray, Tyler Hilton, Billie Holiday, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Eminem, Thirsty Merc, Snow Patrol, Nsync, Kelly Clarkson, Pink, Gavin Degraw, Nada Surf, Jim Dooley, To Have Heroes, The Honorary Title, Wes Carr, Johnny Gallagher, Within Temptation, Devotchka, Bear McCreary, Philip Glass, Luciano Pavarotti, Enrico Caruso, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo. |
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