"Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds."
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"I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself."
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"Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them."
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"Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind."
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"How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?"
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"Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall."
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"My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk."
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"Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind."
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"The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds."
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"I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and despotism, something will be gained for the former. As men become better informed, their rulers must respect them the more."
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"... Nothing resembles reality less than the photograph. Nothing resembles substance less than its shadow. To convey the meaning of something substantial you have to use not a shadow but a sign, not the limitation but the image. The image is a new and different reality, and of course it does not convey an impression of some object, but the mind of the subject; and that is something else again."
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"What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy."
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"Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing."
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"Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me...my lonely is mine."
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"It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods."
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"Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress."
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"Philosophy is the health of the mind."
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"It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries."
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"Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind."
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"What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?"
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