Ranters & Free Spirits
"Every creature in the first estate of Creation was God, and every creature Is God, every creature that has life and breath being an efflux from God, and shall return to God again, being swallowed up in God as a…
Reality
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John Lennon
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." - Jules de Gaultier
"Reality is something you rise above." - Liza Minnelli
"The stupendous fact that we stand in…
Reality as Prison
"Reality…becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it." - Joyce Cary, 1888-1957
"Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will…" - Cesare Pavese, 1908-1950, Italian Poet
"You would never get out of prison if you…
Rebellion
"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being." - Albert Camus
"Disobedience is in our DNA." - Charlton Heston
Reciprocity
"Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"On the sixth day God created man. On the seventh day, man returned the favor." - Anonymous
"If God has created us…
Recycling
"… the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World… the Serpent that announces, 'The World is a closed thing, cyclical, resonant, eternally-returning'…" - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, p. 412
"EDIBLE, adj.…
Regret
"While I have been fumbling over books
And thinking about God and the Devil and all,
Other young men have been battling with the days
And others have been kissing the beautiful women." - Aldous Huxley
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Religion
"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
"One man's religion is another man's belly laugh." - Robert Heinlein
"True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god." - Mark Twain…
Religious Animals
"There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith." - William E.H. Lecky, History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Nationalism in Europe, pub. 1871
"Man is a Religious Animal. He is…
Repetition
"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe." - Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas
"…better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions." - D. H. Lawrence
Research
"Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind." - Marston Bates
"If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research." - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"By seeking and blundering we learn." - Goethe…
Resurrection
"To be cured [of our societal neuroses], we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must…
Revolution
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." - Abbie Hoffman
"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory…
Ride
"The world is like a ride in an amusement park and when you choose to go on it you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and around and around…
Ripeness
"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Worship, pub. A.D
"There is much truth in the parable of the tree of knowledge and its fruit, though I want to make…
Risk
"Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays." - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the…
Robots
"Recent history is the record of a vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind." - Allen Ginsberg
"You can only begin to de-robotize yourself to the extent that you know how totally you’re automated. The more…
Rodents
"How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self." - Millicent Fenwick
"To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, 'What's it for?'" - Robert Fulghum
"The trouble with…
Rules
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." - Katharine Hepburn
"Furthermore, I acknowledge no fixed rules for the interpretation of the Word of God." - Martin Luther, Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants, pub.…
