Here’s what it is, here’s what it isn’t, now here’s why you need to go tell everyone how smart I am.
The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.
The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.
I don’t believe anything, but I have many suspicions.
Of course I’m crazy, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong.
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
Show me a movement that doesn’t hate somebody and I will join it at once.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
We can’t run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something.
In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.
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.
You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.
There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven’t noticed already.
Anyone in the United States today who isn’t paranoid must be crazy.
The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren’t even mammals.
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.