I am the Highway

"I am the Highway" by Audioslave
Video by Snow Ultran

Brilliant Thoughts of Leonardo da Vinci

• "Learning never exhausts the mind."

• "Wisdom is the daughter of experience."

• "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

• "There are three classes of people: those who see; those who see when they are shown and those who do not see."

• "An average human looks without seeing; listens without hearing; touches without feeling; eats without tasting; moves without physical awareness; inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance; and talks without thinking."

• "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

• "The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

• "Time stays long enough for those who use it."

• "Truth was the only daughter of Time."

• "He who possesses most must be afraid of loss."

• "Art is never finished, only abandoned."

• "I thought I was learning to live, I was only learning to die."

• "Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?"

• "iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation. Even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind."

• "Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic; her own laws; she has no effect without cause, nor invention without necessity."

• "Nature never breaks her own laws."

• "All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions."

• "Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."

• "Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."

• "Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it."

• "Nothing can be loved or hated unless it's first understood."

• "The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain."

• "As you cannot do what you want, want what you can do."

• "The time will come when men, such as I, will look upon the murder of animals as they, now, look on the murder of men."

• "Life without love, is no life at all."

• "To become an artist you have to be curious."

• "Learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else."
• "All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge."

• "Truly, man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places."

• "Blinding ignorance does mislead us. Oh! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

- Leonardo da Vinci

Italian painter, sculptor, architect, inventor and intelectual  

Brilliant Thoughts of Edgar Allan Poe

• "All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream."

• "Science has not yet taught us if madness is or not the sublimity of the intelligence."

• "It is a happiness to wonder, it is a happiness to dream."

• "The customs of the world are so many conventional follies."

• "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

• "Melancholy is..the most legitimate of all poetical tones."

• "Years of love have been forgotten, in the hatred of a minute."

• "I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."

• "You call it hope. It is but agony of desire."

• "The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins?"

• "I have great faith in fools - self-confidence, my friends will call it."

• "Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man."

• "I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind."

• "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty."

• "All religions, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry."

• "I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery."

• "But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which have been."

• "Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."

• "Invisible things are the only realities."

• "Stupidity is a talent for misconception."

• "And so being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy."

• "In the heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of "Mother". "

• "I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of  sorrow."

• "Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest."

• "From childhood's hour I have not been, as others were. I have not seen , as others saw. I could not awaken my heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone."

• "I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is  now only more active - not more happy, nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

• "I saw no heaven, but in her eyes."

• "That the play is the tragedy, "Man", and its hero, the Conqueror Worm." 

• "I smiled, for what had I to fear?"

• "Ha! ha! ha!...ha! ha! ha!...ho! ho! ho!

- Edgar Allan Poe,

American writer, poet and editor

Saved by Love

All my life, I have been distracting, unknowingly, my mind... with these so well-structured goals, invented by our society, like studying, working, etc, and entertained, in my free times, with nights out, TV, etc.

Goals that were designed to keep us busy, to not let us think, to not let us be alone with our thoughts.. 

Because when the mind has time to think, can realize some things that may not satisfy us and consequently lead us to, what they like to call, depression.. 

... yes, because if you think too much, you are depressed

-- if you think about the meaning of life, you are depressed

.. if you don't feel happy with your life, you are depressed

.. if you don't fit, you are depressed

.. if you don't want to follow the society's goals, you are depressed

"They" don't want us to spend so many time inside our heads. 
But, why? Are our heads evil? Dangerous? 
So evil and dangerous that we should avoid them?
Are not our minds ourselves?

Why our dissatisfaction and unhappiness has to be ignored and classified as a chemical imbalance in the brain - depression?
Why our feelings are not valid?
Why "depressed" people need to take pills to increase the levels of serotonin,  in the brain, the chemical that regulates happiness, mood and anxiety?
Why "depressed" people need to have therapy to be brainwashed to believe that they are sick and wrong? to make them accept and be submissive to society's structure?

I am not sick just because, very early, I realised that there's really nothing material this society can offer that I would really want.

I never valued the gadgets, luxury, status, fame.. but I know that only money can physically release me from being a slave in this capitalist system..

I wished that freedom.. But I never sought money...

The only thing I really always pursued was love.. and it was the only thing that gave me hope and kept me alive from inside.. the believe in the existence of true love...

In a world, where love is so often betrayed by lust 

In a world where love depends on exterior beauty

In a world where love can be bought

In a world where love is a possession

In a world where love doesn't survive the death of passion

In a world where  love has so many different meanings

In the end, I, also, had my distraction, my motivation - my search for love 

But, the love that sees thought the shapes of the flesh and fabrics

Love that is naive like a baby

Love that worries and will never hurt on purpose

Love that wants to stay forever 

Love made me dream and then hurt me... deceived me.. lied to me..

...but saved my life

From then on, I knew that love was real... and one day.. Love found me..

Horror movies

Horror movies is one of those things I will never understand..

I will never understand how people enjoy to watch others' agony, suffering, death...

I will never understand what drives people to watch terrified people being chased, tortured, killed... It's sadistic..

Even everybody knowing that is just a film and they are acting.. what is the interest in watching fear, screams, murder, blood?..

I see no interested in scaring myself in purpose, waiting in suspense for the killing of someone.. 

The story of these films is always the same:  an evil character that kills the others characters of the film, but in different creative ways.. 

...even, already, knowing how the film ends, people are willing to spend 1 or 2 hours in front of a screen to watch it.. 

What kind of entertainment is this, that people look for?  A really morbid one, for sure..