Brad Warner Quotes

Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.

Brad Warner

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• First, there was darkness, then came the Strangers.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Darkness
  • Strangers

• Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Business
  • Responsibility
  • Band

• There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Rock
  • Sex
  • Songs

• Do not say, "this happened by chance, while this came to be of itself." In all that exists there is nothing disorderly, nothing indefinite, nothing without purpose, nothing by chance ... How many hairs are on your head? God will not forget one of them. Do you see how nothing, even the smallest thing, escapes the gaze of God?

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Purpose

• I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Earth
  • Moral

• Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Great

• Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Work
  • Art

• They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • She
  • Remember

• When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not vice; it wasn't lasciviousness; it was her nature. She gave herself as naturally as the sun gives heat or the flowers their perfume. It was a pleasure to her and she liked to give pleasure to others.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • She
  • Nature
  • Sun

• You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Movie

• Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Stop
  • Mean

• It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Today
  • Violence
  • Choice

• I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Fall

• The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Experience
  • Moral
  • Idea

• I talked a lot early on in my career about intersectionality and how racism and classism and sexism and homophobia and capitalism are all connected with each other, and they're these crazy systems that are feeding on each other and are also damaging. I can't even go into the whole spectrum of it. But I feel like kids today are so much more savvy about that conversation. And I'm so thrilled when I get to meet younger people who are doing that so much better than I did.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Kids
  • Today

• Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Art
  • Never
  • Sake

• If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Truth
  • Violence

• A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.

  

  Evagrius Ponticus
  • Truth
  • Spirit
  • Creator

• The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented – and with a mature sense of the sacred – in Buddhism and Hinduism.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Method
  • Buddhism
  • Followers

• I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• With that tour, I feel we really pushed ourselves to the limit. I know that we regained a lot of critical credibility; that's nice but to be honest that wasn't something that I really thought about very much.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Honest
  • I Know
  • Credibility

• At the core of punctuated equilibria lies an empirical observation: once evolved, species tend to remain remarkably stable, recognizable entities for millions of years. The observation is by no means new, nearly every paleontologist who reviewed Darwin's Origin of Species pointed to his evasion of this salient feature of the fossil record.

  

  Niles Eldredge
  • Observation
  • Species
  • Equilibrium

• Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Buddhism
  • Own Way
  • Imitating