whats your fav saying or quote?

[Nashrakh]

The enlightened period came just before two world wars, didn't it? Hmmm.

Without veering too much into politics, Horkheimer and Adorno have depicted (in their seminal work Dialectic of Enlightenment) the upheavals of 20th century Europe not as the failure, but the rational endpoint of Enlightenment thought. So you're not exactly alone in thinking along those lines.

 

[roccobass]

Another one that comes to mind that I so can relate to. An excerpt from the Eagles, “Take it To the Limit”. As it pertains to my playing career.

“And when you're looking for your freedom (nobody seems to care)
And you can't find the door
(Can't find it anywhere)
When there's nothing to believe in
Still you're coming back
You're running back
You're coming back for more...”

 

[bassdude51]

"Oh, well" ~Peter Green

One of my all time most favorite songs. And so, I'll go for a 2nd quote from the song, Oh Well.

"Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to."

 

[Tom Bomb]

"There’s this thing called gaslighting. And the opposite of truth sometimes is gaslighting, which has come into the language to mean someone forcing their truth onto someone in a vulnerable position and simply driving a bulldozer over their lived experience.

And it comes in with domestic violence and coercive control and things like that. And the situation which very often happens, both in politics but also in struggling families where someone imposes their truth on other people.

And so, my answer to the problem of gaslighting is to say that there is, inside of each of our children, and inside of us, there is a felt sense, of is this true for us?"

-Steve Biddulph
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[Chris Fitzgerald]

Attributed to Krishnamurti, but likely a paraphrase:

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

 

[Lance Bunyon]

"I keep trying to think, but nothing happens!".
Jerry "Curly" Howard

 

[Jeff Scott]

Attributed to Krishnamurti, but likely a paraphrase:

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

How appropriate for today's world that we live in.

 

[ElectroVibe]

Any means of salvation for our world which does not reach and change the heart is of necessity superficial and transitory. There are thousands of human schemes for social and political improvement. Many of them are very good. But they will ultimately fail because they are not dealing with man's basic disease.
- Billy Graham

 

[Ooba Tooba]

you keep a knockin but you can’t come in
Cheech Marin

Seriously, I was thinking along the lines of

I know nothing but the fact of my ignorance
Socrates

 

[5StringBlues]

If you lose, you're out of the family!

 

[Indiana Mike]

A five pound sack of flour makes a really big biscuit.

 

[ebo]

Never mess with a Sicilian when death is on the line! Vizzini ( the princess bride)

 

[Indiana Mike]

We can do this once real slow or twice real fast.

 

[hrodbert696]

"It is often said that force is powerless to overcome thought; but for this to be true, there must BE thought.
"...Nowadays, every attempt to turn men into brutes finds powerful means at its disposal. On the other hand, one thing is impossible, even were you to dispose of the best of public platforms, and that is to diffuse clear ideas, correct reasoning and sensible views on any wide scale."
Simone Weil, "Sketch of Contemporary Social Life" (1934)

 

[ElectroVibe]

"When you feel yourself to be utterly unworthy, you have hit the truth".
- Charles Spurgeon

 

[Adagietto]

I feel more like I do now than I did.

 

[JCBeard]

“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”
— George Orwell

“Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
— Mark Twain

“There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough to do it over.”
— Jack BergmaN

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
— Will Rogers

“Be Yourself, everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

“Keep your bowels open and your mouth shut. This is the gamut of wisdom.”

- Will Durant

 

[ElectroVibe]

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
- Anne Lamott

 

[ElectroVibe]

Without veering too much into politics, Horkheimer and Adorno have depicted (in their seminal work Dialectic of Enlightenment) the upheavals of 20th century Europe not as the failure, but the rational endpoint of Enlightenment thought. So you're not exactly alone in thinking along those lines.

It also preceded the Civil rights movements.