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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.
 
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. 
 
You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.
 
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
 
Society is unity in diversity.
 
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
 
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
 
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
 
There's the common veneration (not just by the religious) of faith, namely believing something without a good reason.
 
The map is not the territory … The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...
 
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
 
I have no faith, luckily. If I had, I should live in constant fear of losing it. Hence, far from helping me, it would do nothing but injure me.
 
As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all Beings.
 
Psycho-galvanic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
 
The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence […] the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason.
 
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
 
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
 
What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself.
 
Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.
 
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
 
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