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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. – Aldous Huxley
We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. – T. S. Eliot
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. – Jonas Mekas
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. – Cyril Connolly
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions. – Albert Einstein
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of – Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", pp. 323- 324
Think of it: zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another : 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity. – Robert Wright
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. – J. Krishnamurti
It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry—or laugh. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. – Benjamin Franklin