"It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep."
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"Creativity has a touch of the bizarre"
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"Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size)."
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"You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating out of the infinite flux of being. You don't know anything about anybody else's reality unless they tell you about it. You gotta listen very sympathetically in order to understand them. So it's a limited infallibility."
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"Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall"
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"The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth."
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"Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know "all" about the rest of space-time."
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"I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal."
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"There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually."
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"You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning."
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"I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe."
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"I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively."
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"Each mans spills the drink he loves."
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"All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense."
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"Like what you like, enjoy what you enjoy, and don't take crap from anybody."
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"All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away."
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"I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery."
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"There is no complete theory of anything."
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"Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs."
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"Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed."
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