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"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal." - Aleister Crowley

"It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair." - Aleister Crowley

"I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck." - Aleister Crowley

"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." - Carl Sagan

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan

"What do we know...of the world and the universe about us?? We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses, we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos. Yet other beings with a wider, stranger, or different range of senses might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand...Yet can never be detected with the senses we have. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity...But some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revolation, or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." - Howard Phillip Lovecraft

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex." - Aldous Huxley

"I hate patriotism. I can’t stand it, man — makes me fuckin’ sick. It’s a round world last time I checked." - Bill Hicks

"This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else's being you can't be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism. The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news." - Terence McKenna

"The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us." - Thomas Henry Huxley