The abandoned infant’s cry is rage, not fear.
Philadelphia merely seems dull because it’s next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses – our reality-tunnels – will become.
Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.
Creativity has a touch of the bizarre.
Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.
The variables vary too much and the constants aren’t as constant as they seem.
I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
I’m using myself as a typical 20th century model as I’m trying to make sense out of the world around me.
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I’m not an anarchist any longer, because I’ve concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.
Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.
There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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.
There is no complete theory of anything.
The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.
People who’ve been through our educational system, they think they’re thinking, when they’re just repeating like parrots.
A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants.