February 2012
1 post
And the more we learn of the nature of things, the more evident is it that what...
– Thomas Henry Huxley
January 2012
1 post
The assumption of shared experience is the root cause of most human conflict.
– Command Z
November 2011
2 posts
1 tag
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of...
– Bertrand Russell
3 tags
When you show the odd flash of contextual intelligence, I forget your generation...
– Hannibal Lecter
October 2011
3 posts
1 tag
All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. You have to be incredibly...
– William Gibson
2 tags
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
– George Carlin
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A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal...
– Bertrand Russell
July 2011
1 post
REGALIA
Around my neck
A glittering chain of events
Its pearls dissolve
A rustling amid trees of roaring laughter
Diving head first
Into a pool with no surface
March 2011
2 posts
If observed closely, every phenomenon will appear to be of a mess-o-physical...
– Das Tao Teh Punkt
2 tags
We are evaluating with our whole nervous system all the time, our whole organism...
– Robert Anton Wilson
February 2011
3 posts
Einstein deduced by rigorous logic that there are no “things,” only...
– Robert Anton Wilson
1 tag
Would you mind giving it a push? The Door of Knowledge Through Which the...
– The Collected, Revised and Crossindexed Wisdom Of The Godess DO IT
Composition is a process whereby elements are organized into structure...
– Frank Zappa
January 2011
12 posts
1 tag
Is the stone Buddha dancing?
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously,...
– Alfred Korzybski
Wait a minute, Doc. Ah… Are you telling me that you built a time...
– Marty McFly
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is...
– Robert Anton Wilson
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the...
– Alan Watts
3 tags
Some say that reading consists in such elementary tasks as assembling the...
– Robert Anton Wilson, How To Read/How To Think
Don’t try to teach a pig to sing. It will just waste your time and annoy...
– Irish proverb
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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling...
– Alan Watts
…It would hardly be a waste of time if sometimes even the most advanced...
– Umberto Eco
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But just as there is no flat map that is a good representation of the earth’s...
– Hawking and Mlodinow, The Grand Design
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When we say that two straight lines cannot enclose a space, we mean no more...
– Aleister Crowley, 777
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There is no picture- or theory-independent concept of reality.
– Hawking & Mlodinow, The Grand Design
December 2010
7 posts
3 tags
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
– William of Baskerville
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The scientist must be elegantly logical to the child, or else the scientist’s...
– Bucky Fuller, Goldilocks And The Three Bears
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Since words contain both denotations (referents in the sensory-existential...
– Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising
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Identifying oneself as an atheist is a bit like introducing oneself as not John...
– Edward Craig
1 tag
OJECTS IN THE MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR
– Das Tao Teh Punkt
The central idea was to take all the crazy people and put them in the same place...
– Richard Bandler about mental hospitals
TRAINED ON SOME TEXTBOOK THAT HAD BLUNTED HIS CAPACITY FOR WONDER
November 2010
7 posts
There is a mysterious wisdom by wich phenomena among themselves disparate can be...
– Umberto Eco, The Name Of The Rose
1 tag
Goldy is also a live show taking place no time away-and-ago. Altogether...
– Buckminster Fuller: Tetrascroll - Goldilocks And The Three Bears - A Cosmic Fairy Tale
(…) reasoning about causes and effects is a very difficult thing, and I...
– William of Baskerville in Umberto Eco’s “The Name Of The Rose”
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The old favorite of inferring from scientifc data that there is final proof for...
– Das Tao Teh Punkt
2 tags
For something to exist, it has to be observed.
For something to exist, it has...
– Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
I must be insane to think the things I’m playin’ can make a...
– Mike Keneally & Beer For Dolphins, “We’ll Be Right Back”
2 tags
She will utilize your intestines for hosiery accessoires, sir.
– from a Pratchett novel
October 2010
9 posts
Project/Object - An interview with André... →
By Lisa McDonald. Photos by Yours Truly.
When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them...
– Bertrand Russell
Ein empirisch-wissenschaftliches System muss an der Erfahrung scheitern können.
– Karl Popper
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We cannot define any word soever, except by identifying it with two or more...
– Aleister Crowley
1 tag
In a sea of symbols, it’s unwise to open your mouth before your head has...
– Das Tao Teh Punkt
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Purge thyself of belief: live like a tree walking! Take no thought of good or...
– Austin Osman Spare
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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast...
– Bertrand Russell
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When Buddhism condescends to be vulgarly scientific; to observe, to classify,...
– Aleister Crowley
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Of course, due to the uniqueness of structures on the event level and the...
– D. David Bourland, Jr.
September 2010
19 posts
All discussions upon philosophy are neccessarily sterile, since truth is beyond...
– Aleister Crowley
2 tags
The universe is a set of events; they do not exist, they occur. It is a dynamic,...
– Aleister Crowley