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This idea—that drugs could be a tool for the creation of a new culture—was genuinely original. Peyote and related tools for the alteration of consciousness, like psilocybin mushrooms, were usually imagined as survivals from a premodern
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“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.”
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“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.”
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“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
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