Occupation: Author Birth: January 18, 1932 Death: January 11, 2007
The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is th….
I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atroph….
We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occ….
All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir H….
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artist….
To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power El….
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 av….
The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "ow….
The Grail is the womb of the beloved..
I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery..
I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the….
The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger..
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind..
Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope. I see a few large and impressive peace protests here and there aroun….
I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothi….
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities..
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now..
We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch..
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..
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and inter….
Creativity has a touch of the bizarre.