December 2011
“Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very...”
– William James
“Professors are policemen of the intellect.”
– Robert Anton Wilson
“Love all your thoughts, even those that are limited or fearful. Think of them as...”
– Orin (via a-golden-lion)
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via horrorparadox)
“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom,...”
– Frank Zappa (via myquotelibrary)
“I’m grateful for anything that reminds me of what’s possible in this life. Books...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via whendustdances)
“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable...”
– Richard Feynman (via philphys)
“I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is...”
– Clint Eastwood (via nirvikalpa)
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“Acid is not for every brain - only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome,...”
– Timothy Leary
“The beautiful and imperishable comes into existence due to the suffering of...”
– Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (via universoul)
“Creating without claiming, doing without taking credit, guiding without...”
– Lao Tzu
“Do you have game? Having game is not about manipulating the story or...”
“To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.”
– Carl Gustav Jung
“For a sucessful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations...”
– Richard Feynman
The news — is it real or is it illusion? →
I think one of the biggest illusions in our society is that the “news” on TV is what’s real, objective, factual. It is anything but that. It is soap opera designed to deliver viewers to advertisers with techniques derived from drama. Tease, lure, fright, dread. Compare the “news” to places like ted.com and see which one is performing a better public service. See which...
“Love all your thoughts, even those that are limited or fearful. Think of them as...”
– Orin (via a-golden-lion)
Noam Chomsky - “10 Strategies of Manipulation” by...
ninefoldgoddess:
Renowned critic and always MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, one of the classic voices of intellectual dissent in the last decade, has compiled a list of the ten most common and effective strategies resorted to by the agendas “hidden” to establish a manipulation of the population through the media.Historically the media have proven highly efficient to mold public opinion. Thanks to the...
“When I ask my students at the beginning of my Men and Masculinity course about...”
– (via thesecretofexistence)
“The less you think about your oppression, the...
– Assata Shakur
“Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion...”
– Viola Spolin
“The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.”
– Robert Anton Wilson
“I have always believed that each of us is responsible for doing her own...”
– Deborah Daw Heffernan
“Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this...”
– Robert Anton Wilson
“One of the great attractions of patriotism — it fulfills our worst wishes…...”
– Aldous Huxley
“Times will change for the better when you change.”
– Maxwell Maltz