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- Alan Wilson Watts99◆ The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd.
- Nicholas Tharcher99◆ The menu is not the meal.
- Alan Wilson Watts99◆ Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a rebel. ...And if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the REBEL, we now have a DEVIL. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have ... GREATNESS.
- Nicholas Tharcher99◆ For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
- George Orwell99◆ The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
- Anton Chekhov99◆ ...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
- Robert Anton Wilson99◆ I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.
- René Descartes99◆ ...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
- Robert Anton Wilson99◆ Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
- Aberjhani99◆ The map is not the territory.
- Alfred Korzybski99◆ We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan99◆ ...reality is always plural and mutable.
- Robert Anton Wilson99◆ 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.
- Robert Anton Wilson99◆ Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
- Martin Heidegger99
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