'If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.'

Terence McKenna

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'We don’t perceive the world as it is, we perceive it as it is useful for us to do so.'

Anil Seth

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'You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.'

Martha C. Nussbaum

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'Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.'

Socrates

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'We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.'

Parmenides

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'Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.'

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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'The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.'

Ayn Rand

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'All philosophies are mental fabrications.'

Nagarjuna

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'The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.'

Plato

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'In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.'

Simone de Beauvoir

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'The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.'

Socrates

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'You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.'

Henry David Thoreau

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'Stop whatever you’re doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do this anymore?'

Marcus Aurelius

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'I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.'

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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'Forget the money. If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living — that is, to go on doing things you don’t like doing, which is stupid.'

Alan Watts

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'The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.'

Paulo Coelho

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'All great things start on a small scale, all great movements begin with individuals; and if we wait for collective action, such action, if it takes place at all, is destructive and conducive to further misery. So revolution must begin with you and me.'

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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'Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...'

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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'In America, we’re really good at blowing things up but not so good in knowing where the pieces will land.'

Mike Tyson

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'Another problem with people who fail to examine themselves is that they often prove all too easily influenced.'

Martha C. Nussbaum

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