Apocalypse
"What a tragic world this is. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it, they think they are free because they never have been free, and do not understand what it means. This is a prison and few men have guessed. But I know, he said to himself. [...]
Black & White
"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps [...]
Center
"Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without." [...]
Change
"If you never change your mind, why have one?" – Edward De Bono
"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." – Aldous Huxley
"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And [...]
Error
"The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth – that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one [...]
Funny
"What helps for me – if help comes at all – is to find the mustard seed of the funny at the core of the horrible and futile." – Philip K. Dick
"When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth." – George Bernard Shaw
Giants
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." – Isaac Newton
"A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two." – George Herbert, 1593-1632
"The Giants who formed this world into its sensual existence and now seem to live in it in chains, [...]
Heresies
"The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy." – Jorge Luis Borges: "The Theologians"
"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next." – Helen Keller
"It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end as superstitions." – Thomas H. Huxley [...]
Home
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home." – William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 [...]
Magic
"Some mon just deal wit’ information. An, some mon, him deal wit’ the concept of truth. An’ den some mon deal wit’ magic. Information flow aroun’ ya, an’ truth flow right at ya. But magic, it flow t’rough ya" – Nernelly the Bush Doctor
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." – Arthur C. [...]
