One or Lie

...
don't let the days go by
...
are you at one, or do you lie?

-lyrics from Glycerine by Bush

Random

'I watch the birds of prey that
Hunt the canyon below my house
Looking for a meal like a lizard or a mouse
I wonder if they appreciate the setting like me
To control your own direction choose to be free
And i reserve the right to be as trite as i want
And you can lick but don't bite
...
And as for you and your crew i don't hate you
...
I love it when the only sound that i hear
Is your infectious laughter
...
I get up to the sun and then i stretch out'

lyrics of Random by 311
from http://www.311.com/lyrics_311#Random

and randomly from the same page,
from the song jackolantern's weather:

'Today, tomorrow, next week and next year
I always say what i feel and that is a promise
Nothing in life is above being honest'

Believing in Purpose

"I believe in your purpose baby,
Coming up to the surface,
and maybe I'll never see you again,
then again, who knows..."
-lyrics from Purpose by 311

Consideration

"THE chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence. This narrowness
arises from the idiosyncrasies and timidities of particular authors, of particular social groups, of
particular schools of thought, of particular epochs in the history of civilization. The evidence relied
upon is arbitrarily biased by the temperaments of individuals, by the provincialities of groups, and
by the limitations of schemes of thought."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

problems arising with technology

"problems of great complexity arise from the impact of new technologies upon a society whose organization and habits of thought are adapted to an older system"
--Bertrand Russell

Reason is a Regulator

"Reason is not a cause of action but only a regulator."
-Bertrand Russell

Order and Progress

"Love as a principle and order as the basis; progress as the goal"
--Comte
reflected as 'Ordem e Progresso' on the Brazilian flag...

variation

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about the grapes.

--Paracelsus

Poison

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

--Paracelsus

Understanding Money

In monetary matters as in diplomacy, a nicely conformist nature, a good tailor and the ability to articulate the currently fashionable financial cliche have usually been better for personal success than an excessively inquiring mind...

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is the one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.

--John Kenneth Galbraith from Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

reason and passion

"Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions."
-David Hume

The Good Life

"The aim of politics should be to make the lives of individuals as good as possible. ... The problem of politics is to adjust the relations of human beings in such a way that each severally may have as much of good in his existence as possible. And this problem requires that we should first consider what it is we think good in the individual life."
-Bertrand Russell Political Ideals

Constraints of the Past and Current

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Rationality or Actuality

"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational."
-G.W.F. Hegel

Computers can be completely Truthful?

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
-Isaac Asimov

Reasoning

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Liberty

"Liberty ... is ... the absence of coercion."
-Jeremy Bentham

Nonsense

"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."
-Bertrand Russell

Games

"so much time wasted playing games with love"
-Lenny Kravitz (from It Ain't Over Till It's Over)

Lies

"lies come in, that's where the drama begins..."
-The Roots (lyrics from You Got Me)

Noise

"Noise is a cruel ruler who is always imposing curfews, while stillness and quiet break open the vintage bottles, awake the real band."
-Hafez

Chert o Pert

"Why just ask the donkey in me to speak to the donkey in you, when I have so many other beautiful animals and brilliant colored birds inside that are all longing to say something wonderful and exciting to your heart? Let's open all the locked doors upon our eyes that keep us from knowing the Intelligence that begets love and a more lively and satisfying conversation with the Friend."
- Hafez