The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
TERENCE MCKENNAYou are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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No one knows enough to worry.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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