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- I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this…
- 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…
- That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.
- 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.
- I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what…
- 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…
- I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are…
- The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies…
- The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of…
- 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 state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda…
- 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…
- The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle