A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
If one can only see things according to one’s own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence...
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
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.
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
My own opinion is that 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.
What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
Hippies generally aren’t busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
People’s belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be...
Here’s to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
There’s a seeker born every minute.
All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.