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- We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights -…
- Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
- What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside....…
- We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the…
- What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and…
- People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of…
- I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a…
- The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the…
- I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication…
- I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends…
- If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us…
- The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice…
- It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions…
- DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an…
- We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather,…
- What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost…
- The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how…
- What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the…
- The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
- Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with…
- It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of…
- Human history is a Gaian dream.
- Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
- The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by…
- There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong