"We live in our myths, we only endure reality."
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"We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself."
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"Only the madman is absolutely sure."
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"Communication is only possible between equals."
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"We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor."
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"You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility."
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"part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations."
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"How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice."
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"Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES."
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"The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want."
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"Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you."
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"There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already."
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"Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude."
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"Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church."
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"Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history."
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"The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness."
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"We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?"
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"A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants"
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"Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time."
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"We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such."
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