Cellardoor’s most recent Quotables

Apple might be ahead on design but Android is the future and its putting up a good fight. The customization and feature set makes iOS look like child's play. The Xoom packs a punch when it comes to hardware too. If you want a tablet you can really use then the Xoom wins hands-down.

"Not knowing is part of the fun?" Was that the slogan of your community college?

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

Liz: Why are you wearing a tux?
Jack: It's after 6, Lemon. What am I, a farmer?

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence.

We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don't do that.

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth,"You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn...

The earth expanding right hand and left hand, The picture alive, every part in its best light.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

You must stand high and shout so loud the mountains tremble at the sound of your voice, then do a dance so swift the wind turns green for an eternity due to envy.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

When pushed too far, some men shut down completely, cry or rail against the unjust God that inflicted such dire times upon them. And some men, when they reach their breaking points as human beings, opt instead to transcend the limitations of the human form, channel hellfire through their palms and bring the entire world crashing down around them.

Love? A mere biological passion, fundamentally the same whatever the unknown and slightly varying personal equations…Love comes to seem a physiological insult to intelligence.

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Live within the sane, sweet sun. Leave the shadow-world alone. There is a crown for everyone; For everyone there is a throne. That crown is silence, sealed and sure. That throne is knowledge, perfect pure.