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What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.
The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.
We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.
The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.
Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.
There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.
There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective
The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.
Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.
When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.
How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.
By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.
Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.
The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.
Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.
The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.
You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.
True it is that each of us has only one life - but how many of us 'die a thousand deaths' in fear and nervousness!
Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?
You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.