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Terence McKenna

"The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products."

Terence McKenna

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Created: 04 January 2022

each man kills the thing he loves

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"

- From the "Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde, A bit long, a trifle didactic and repetitive, reminds me in rhyme and repetition of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". But a great line...

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Created: 20 December 2018

Plato, Democracy and Dictatorship

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

˜ Plato

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Created: 14 May 2017
  • Democracy,
  • Plato,

Rilke

Finished, an easy read, poetry after all, it takes time only in finding the right mood to appreciate it. I shall have to pick it up again, in the meantime...

Could it be that Fate measures us in spans of being,
And hence seems to us so alien?
Think how many such spans stretch from a woman
To the man she longs for and avoids.

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Created: 30 October 2016
  • Rainer Maria Rilke,
  • Orpheus,
  1. Epictetus
  2. Defining Class
  3. Quotes on Conservatives VS Liberals
  4. Wernher von Braun on the Intelligent Universe

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