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Action expresses priorities.

Mahatma Gandhi

We may define "faith" as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith". We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups substitute different emotions.

Bertrand Russell

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

Robert Fripp

#KC

I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.

Robert Mapplethorpe

This is called logic. It won't hurt you, it'll set you free.

Bill Hicks

#Bill goes Bertrand

There are no wrong notes in the Dao. Just cats with poor resolution skills.

Lao Tzu

I try to think logically and the result of that is that most people think I am a satirist.

Robert Anton Wilson

#think #different

The Tendencies of thy Mind lie deeper far than any Thought, for they are the Conditions and the Laws of Thought, and it is these that thou must bring to Naught.

Aleister Crowley, Liber Aleph

#Paleopsychology #Dig it

THE FIRST BASIC LAW OF HUMAN STUPIDITY: Always and invevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

Carlo M. Cipolla

To me, all of these things are intelligence tests. And the people who pass the intelligence test are not worrying about Pro Bono Proctologists from Other Starsystems showing up unannounced in their bedrooms.

Terence McKenna

Now thus is concentration explained: "The will, the desire, the belief; lived as inseparable, become realization." Truth concerns exactitude of belief, not reality. He who has no law is free. In all things there is no necessity.

Austin Osman Spare

#Focus of Life

(...) and in loving her understood that his most basic sense of what that word might mean had changed, supplanting every previous concept.

William Gibson, IDORU

#L.A.Y.L.A.H.

If I look back at what kind of qualities inspired me, it was Miles' quality of disagreeing with the status quo and the existing environment. Continually in disagreement. Just artistically and as a human spirit, understanding what he likes and wants in music and in life and not waiting for other people or other authorities around him to say when it's ok for him to do something or not.

Chick Corea about Miles Davis

It seems to be a hangover of the medieval Catholic era that causes most people, even the educated, to think that everybody must 'believe' something or other, that if one is not a theist, one must be a dogmatic atheist, and if one does not think Capitalism is perfect, one must believe fervently in Socialism, and if one does not have blind faith in X, one must alternatively have blind faith in not-X or the reverse of X. My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. The more certitude one assumes, the less there is to think about, and a person sure of everything would never have any need to think about anything and might be considered dead under current medical standards, where the absence of brain activity is taken to mean that live has ended.

Robert Anton Wilson

#maybe #baby

The thing that makes my music unusual is that people only hear one kind of music all the time over the radio. It’s wallpaper to their lives. Audible wallpaper. There’s one acceptable beat and there are three acceptable chord progressions. There are five acceptable words: baby, love, tears, yat yat. Just because I don’t deal in those terms doesn’t mean I’m weird.

Frank Zappa

#Plurabella

The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consistent and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only "good guys" in it, or eating cottage cheese.

Frank Zappa

I keep mixing the forms. Nobody knows when they're reading my books wether they're reading a thriller, or a comedy, or a philosophical treatise. I do that deliberately because I feel live DOESN'T HAVE boundaries. You don't know from one day to the next whether you're living in a soap opera, or an occult thriller, or a science fiction novel, or a detective story.

Robert Anton Wilson

#Plurabella

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