Posts tagged "society"
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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
Terence McKenna (via sage-femme)(via sage-femme-deactivated20121130)
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and thus clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with and endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imagined.
H. L. Mencken
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who has true friends is never alone even if he has the whole world against him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Von Goethe
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
G.C. Lichtenberg
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