Belief is the death of intelligence.
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.
...reality is always plural and mutable.
We all see only that which we are trained to see.
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.
In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.
Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
Reality is what you can get away with.
Only the madman is absolutely sure.
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.
The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
Help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more
Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
Of course there are robots among us. There are also Magicians among us. I think we take turns playing each role, as a matter of fact. The Magician defines a reality-mesh and the robot lives in it. Grok?
Encounters with death and danger are only adventures to the survivors.
