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- The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the…
- Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only…
- I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody…
- The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
- And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going…
- Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.
- Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is…
- ... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that…
- You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating out of the…
- The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.
- On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
- If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
- Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
- Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
- It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
- An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
- Only the madman is absolutely sure.
- Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
- Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything…
- We all see only that which we are trained to see.
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