Dionysians Quotes & Sayings

We'll keep you posted. — Andy Weir

And try as I might, I am having difficulty giving a f**k. — Jon Stewart

Leadership's defining quality is honesty. To honesty, add fairness and consistency. — Cole C. Kingseed

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. — Frederick William Faber

Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are living in a dream world. Such persons are, in a very real sense, not sane. — Gerald Holton

How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home? — Kendrick Lamar

People who are known as Dionysians tend to trust others. They're intuitive and make many decisions based upon feelings rather than cognitive thought. — Donald Bain

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness. — Vachel Lindsay

O flowers, country, love, inaction,
O fields! I am your devotee!
I always note with satisfaction
Onegin's difference from me,
Lest somewhere a sarcastic reader
Or publisher or such-like breeder
Of complicated calumny
Discerns my physiognomy
And shamelessly repeats the fable
That I have crudely versified
Myself like Byron, bard of pride,
As if we were no longer able
To write a poem and discuss
A subject not concerning us. — Alexander Pushkin

The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed. — Adam Parfrey

For the time being, it need only be said that the philosopher in question made much of human existence as a tragedy that need not have been were it not for the intervention in our lives of a single, calamitous event: the evolution of consciousness - parent of all horrors. — Thomas Ligotti

Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct them...what people remember about the past, [Kahneman and Tversky] suggested, is likely to warp their judgement of the future. "We often decide that an outcome is extremely unlikely or impossible, because we are unable to imagine any chain of events that could cause it to occur. The defect, often, is in our imagination. — Michael Lewis

Tell the truth, why aren't you going to kill me?"
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"Because she is. — Elizabeth Hunter

I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be. — Wolfman Jack

I make no judgements on hearsay. — Joe Abercrombie

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people. — Charles Hodge

John Lewis said, You have to be taught the way of peace, the way of love, the way of nonviolence. In the religious sense, in the moral sense, you can say that in the bosom of every human being, there is a spark of the divine. So you don't have a right as a human to abuse that spark of the divine in your fellow human being. From time to time, we would discuss that, if you have someone attacking you, beating you, spitting on you, you have to think of that person. Years ago that person was an innocent child, an innocent little baby. What happened? Did something go wrong? Did someone teach that person to hate, to abuse others? You try to appeal to the goodness of every human being and you don't give up. You never give up on anyone. — Krista Tippett