The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining"… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
John flung himself into a pseudo-karate stance, one hand poised behind him and one in front, posed like a cartoon cactus. I… — David Wong Copy Share Image
The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal. To be of choice is to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Don`t imitate: imitation creates falsity, pseudo-ness, inauthenticity. Just feel your own way and don`t bother about what others say. It is nobody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they… — Sanal Edamaruku Copy Share Image
For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true"… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
