Favorite Quotes

The sayings and quotations from various authors, philosophers and other individuals that a person accepts as valuable, important, humorous, interesting, or enlightening are a fascinating psychological indicator of the thought processes and internal beliefs of that person. With that in mind we have compiled a collection of some of Reverend Stu's and Bryan's favorite sayings and quotes which will serve as windows into their madness.

The Reverend Abbot Stu's Favorite Quotations:

Jesus said to his disciples, "Compare me to something and tell me what I am like." Simon Peter said to him, "You are like a just messenger." Matthew said to him, "You are like a wise philosopher." Thomas said to him, "Teacher, my mouth is utterly unable to say what you are like." Jesus said, "I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have tended." And he took him, and withdrew, and spoke three sayings to him. When Thomas came back to his friends they asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?" Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the sayings he spoke to me, you will pick up rocks and stone me, and fire will come from the rocks and devour you."
Jesus said to them, "If you fast, you will bring sin upon yourselves, and if you pray, you will be condemned, and if you give to charity, you will harm your spirits. When you go into any region and walk about in the countryside, when people take you in, eat what they serve you and heal the sick among them. After all, what goes into your mouth will not defile you; rather, it's what comes out of your mouth that will defile you." -- Gospel of Thomas 13-14

“Knowledge increases in proportion to its use, that is, the more we teach the more we learn.” -- Helena Blavatsky

"A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse." -- Aleister Crowley

"You are either on the bus or off the bus." -- Ken Kesey

"If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution." -- Apocryphal saying of Emma Goldman

"One law for the lion & ox is oppression." -- William Blake

Bryan's Favorite Quotes:

"Not only is it not right, it's not even wrong! (das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)"-- Wolfgang Pauli

"Let the mind, so far as it can, be open to the fullness of the mysteries; let not the mysteries be constrained to fit the narrower confines of the mind." (Animus ad amplitudinem Mysteriorum pro modulo suo dilatetur; non Mysteria ad angustias animi constringantur.) -- Roger Bacon

"Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke." J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

"Repent! Quit your job! Slack off!" -- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

"Pull the wool over your own eyes." -- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

"This play that I witnessed is my play, not your play. It is my secret, not yours. You cannot imitate me. My secret remains virginal and my mysteries are inviolable, they belong to me and cannot belong to you. You have your own." -- C.G. Jung

"One without a myth is like one uprooted, having no true link either with the past, or with the ancestral life which continues within him, or yet with contemporary human society." -- C.G. Jung

"Sometimes a tree can tell you more than can be read in a book." -- C.G. Jung

"Tonight I must be in Asgard," he said. "I must confront my father Odin in the great hall of Valhalla and bring him to account for what he has done." "You mean, for making you count Welsh pebbles? "No!" said Thor. "For making the Welsh pebbles not worth counting!" -- Thor and Kate Schlecter in Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement." -- Snoopy

"Working is for chumps." -- Bart Simpson

"The secret of the orchid is that it signifies and affects the testicles. but the testicles signify a sign of the zodiac, which in turn signifies an angelic hierarchy, which then signifies a musical scale, and the scale signifies a relationship among the humors. And so on. Initiation is learning never to stop. The universe is peeled like an onion, and an onion is all peel. Let us imagine an infinite onion, which has its center everywhere and its circumference nowhere. Initiation travels an endless Mobius strip. The true initiate is he who knows that the most powerful secret is a secret without content." -- Cassoubon in Umberto Eco, Foucoult's Pendulum

"But the fact is that it doesn't take long for the experience of the Numinous to unhinge the mind." -- Cassoubon in Umberto Eco, Foucoult's Pendulum

"There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman." -- Thaddeus Sholto in Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

"I'm not at all difficult to serve. A few kisses and a bouquet of flowers now and then and I'm perfectly happy." "She's lying to you," Sparhawk warned. "Enlisting in the service of Aphrael is volunteering for the profoundest slavery you could possibly imagine." "Well..," the Child Goddess said deprecatingly, "I suppose it is when you get right down to it, but as long as we're all having fun, what difference does it make?" -- from David Eddings, The Shining Ones

"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." — Noam Chomsky

"Nature gives neither rewards nor punishments, only consequences." -- Sephrenia in David Eddings, The Diamond Throne

"Only God is stronger than the Americans." -- Joseph Pierre (Concierge in Jean-Bertrand Aristide's home, concerning the coup which ousted the Haitian president)

"Nothing is true and everything is permitted." -- Apocryphal saying of Hassan i-sabbah

"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?" -- Doctor Who

"Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays." --Friedrich Schiller

"They cut the forest down to build a piece of crap." -- Neil Young

"Authentic spirituality is so importantly a function of our connection with the earth. To reclaim the former, we must regain the latter. That so very much stands in our way is the measure of how bereft we have become. Do we have the imagination, strength, and determination to recover the wholeness that was once our human birthright?" -- John Zerzan

"If Man becomes an animal again, his arts, his loves, and his play must also become purely "natural" again. Hence it would have to be admitted that after the end of History, men would construct their edifices and works of art as birds build their nests and spiders spin their webs, would perform musical concerts after the fashion of frogs and cicadas, would play like young animals, and would indulge in love like adult beasts." -- Alexandre Kojève (1946)

"Plagiarism is necessary. Progress depends on it. It sticks close to an author's phrasing, exploits his expressions, deletes a false idea, replaces it with the right one." -- Guy Debord

“Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.” -- François-Noël Babeuf

"A map is not the territory." --Alfred Korzybski