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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

“LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.”
― Timothy Leary

“Good brother, if you want to say something, say it quickly, because these brethren are disciplining their flesh and we cannot listen to anything, nor is it right for us to do so, unless it is so brief that it can be said in two words.” “I shall say it in one,” replied Don Quixote, “and it is this: you must immediately release that beauteous lady whose tears and melancholy countenance are clear signs that you take her against her will, and have done her some notable wrong, and I, who was born into the world to right such iniquities, shall not consent to your taking another step forward until you give her the freedom she desires and deserves.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
― Novalis

“Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.”
― Novalis

“Where are we really going? Always home.”
― Novalis

“Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us. ”
― Novalis, Philosophical Writings

“To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”
― Novalis

“A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.”
― Novalis

“We are close to waking when we dream that we are dreaming.”
― Novalis, Philosophical Writings

“Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.”
― Novalis

“The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. ”
― novalis, Philosophical Writings

“Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.”
― Novalis

“Oh draw at my heart, love,
Draw till I'm gone,
That, fallen asleep, I
Still may love on.
I feel the flow of
Death's youth-giving flood
To balsam and ether
Transform my blood --
I live all the daytime
In faith and in might
And in holy fire
I die every night.”
― Novalis, Hymns to the Night

“Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.”
― Novalis

“Philosophy is really homesickness: the urge to be at home everywhere.”
― Novalis

“Every individual is the center of a system of emanation.”
― Novalis, Philosophical Writings

“Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. ”
― U. G. Krishnamurti

“Don't follow me, I'm lost.”
― UG Krishnamurti, Thought is Your Enemy: Mind-Shattering Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“Whether you feel that your soul is pleased by the conception or contemplation of harmonies, or that your mind is stimulated by the aspect of magnificent problems, or whether you are content to find fun in trying to observe and depict the jolly things you see, the vistas of possibility are limited only by the shortness of life.”
― RosettaBooks, Painting as a Pastime

“An impersonal generation will take the place of Nature's hideous system. In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. For the madman appeals to what is fundamental, to passion and the instincts; the philosophers to what is superficial and supererogatory - reason.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen,”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“Fans can sometimes develop a false sense of relationship with celebrities simply because they know so much about them. But real friends are more than just fans. And real disciples have an actual relationship with the Lord. They know his voice.”
― Richard Jacobson, Unchurching: Christianity Without Churchianity