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"The world is all outside, it has no inside."
"I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring."
"The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce."
"The forgiveness of the world can only be accomplished by the judgment of the world."
"The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof."
"I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me."
"I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature."
"We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder."
"The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm."
"For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level."
"The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform."
"Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart"
"There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship."
"Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds."
"I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place."
"I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace."
"Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language."
"We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms."
"You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world."