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“Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.”
“Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.”
“We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.”
“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”
“Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.”
“Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons”
“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.”
“...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.”
“The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.”
“Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.”
“Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.”
“I'm sorry There are some jokes you cannot understand until you have been a fool many, many years and thought yourself finally cured and then found out that you had just become a different kind of fool.”
“Only the madman is absolutely sure.”
“The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.”
“Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.”
“There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.”
“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.”
“We're living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimism that come out of the universities are really a major tragedy. The opportunities for progress and change… are absolutely tremendous. Anybody who tells you that we're running out of resources or in a terrible mess--they are idiots. We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something. To say we are running out of resources is like saying we are running out of brain cells.”
“There is no complete theory of anything.”
“When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.”