There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
- Topic: Awareness, Perception
- Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.
Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
