Linux Wisdom

The state of innocence contains the germs of all future sin.
                -- Alexandre Arnoux, "Etudes et caprices"

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height
but just above the ground.  It seems more designed to make people stumble
than to be walked upon.
                -- Franz Kafka

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
                -- Oscar Wilde

The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.
                -- Lenny Bruce

The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.
                -- Stanley Kubrick

The truth you speak has no past and no future.  It is, and that's all it
needs to be.

The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums.
It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish.
You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages.
                -- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul

There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.
                -- Baba Ram Dass

There are no winners in life, only survivors.

There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of
discovering them over and over and over.
                -- David Nichols