#ought

Psychic power is the ability to download information directly from the Universe. ↗

— Lada Ray

#new-thought #psychic-powers #spirituality #universe #age

Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry. ↗

— Paolo Bacigalupi

#thoughts #anger

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#allegorical #arbitrary #attaches #be true #categories

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. ↗

— Criss Jami

#absurdity #art #artist #ecstasy #experiment

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consciousness #movement #thought-provoking #art

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#thoughts #travel #art

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about. ↗

— James Dickey

#earn #feel #got #guilt #ought

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#art #complete #entirely #hedgehog #isolated

It is so wearisome having to represent things. That is why I refuse to look at abstract art. It is much too suggestive of the style of my thoughts, and I never think about my thoughts. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #representation #thoughts #art

I've always thought my poems told stories. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

#i #poems #stories #thought #told