burroughs
Complaint Desk
"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager.'" - William S. Burroughs
"God's final message to his Creation: We Apologise For The Inconvenience" - Douglas Adams
Dream
"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together." - Jack Kerouac
"There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks." - William S. Burroughs
"Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods [...]
Escape
"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole." - William S. Burroughs
"The Earth is the cradle of the mind - but one cannot eternally live in a cradle." - Konstantin [...]
Ethics
"I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it." - Albert Einstein
"The only possible ETHIC is to do what one wants to do." - William S. Burroughs
God
"Philosophers call God 'the great unknown.' 'The great misknown' is more like it!" - Joseph Roux, 1834-1905
"I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events." - William S. Burroughs
Gods
"I believe there are many gods not one and always in conflict. Well, if there are a gods who created and control what's going on here, you can tell a lot about them by what is going on. I assume they are colonists. And so anything you can see here you can infer is [...]
Messages
"All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks; the art of life is to get the message." - Malcolm Muggeridge
"… if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job." - Carl [...]
Language
"Language is a virus from outer space." - William S. Burroughs
"Language exists to conceal true thought." - Tallyrand
"… if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." - George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, pub. 1946
"A mind enclosed in language is in prison." - Simone Weil
Killing
"As soon as you name something you remove its power… If you could look Death in the face he would lose his power to kill you." - William Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads
"What does not kill me makes me stronger." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche
"Kill one man and you are [...]
Observation
"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing." - William S. Burroughs
