Appeals Quote by Peter J. Carroll

All Philosophy is Biography

— Peter J. Carroll

“[A] competent magician should have the ability to stand still at a bus stop with closed eyes and have the entire universe disappear apart…

— Peter J. Carroll

“Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you use it backwards. The fact that we cannot predict…

— Peter J. Carroll

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

— Peter J. Carroll

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

— Peter J. Carroll

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

— Peter J. Carroll

The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.

— Peter J. Carroll

The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a…

— Peter J. Carroll

Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.

— Peter J. Carroll

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

— Peter J. Carroll

Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just…

— Peter J. Carroll

“Drugs have a long history of use in magic in various cultures, and usually in the context of either ecstatic communal rituals or in…

— Peter J. Carroll