“The only Good is Knowledge and the only Evil is Ignorance.” - Socrates “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Socrates “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle “Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.” - Plato “In every man there is an eye of the soul, which… is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth see.” - Plato “If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.” – Plato “He is a slave. Is he any the worse off for it? Show me any man who is not a slave! One man is the slave of lust; another of greed; another of ambition; and all men are slaves of fear… and the most degraded slavery is that which is self-imposed.” - Seneca “Religion can never reform mankind because Religion is slavery.” – Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) “In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them second hand from other non-examiners whose opinions about them were not worth a farthing.” – Mark Twain "Those who can get you to believe absurdities can get you to commit atrocities.” - Voltaire “Fable should be taught as fable, myth as myth, and miracle as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truth is horrifying. The mind of a child accepts them, and only through great pain, perhaps tragedy, can the child be relieved of them.” – Hypatia of Alexandria “God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.” – Frank Lloyd Wright “It is the duty of everymen, so far as his ability allows, to detect and expose delusion and error.” – Thomas Paine “The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” – Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams, 1797 “As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see, but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters of England, some doubts as to his divinity.” – Benjamin Franklin - 1790 “The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.” – Benjamin Franklin “History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a civil free government.” – Thomas Jefferson – 1813 “An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot too carefully be guarded against.” – James Madison – 1822 “When I observe into what inconsistent absurdities those persons run who make speculative, metaphysical religion a matter of importance, I am fully determined never to puzzle myself in the mazes of religious discussion, to content myself with practicing the dictates of God and reason so far as I can judge for myself.” – John Q. Adams – Diary Entry “Life in a New England Town.” |
“Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is none more derogatory to the almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory in itself, than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid, or produces only atheists or fanatics.” – Thomas Paine – 1795 “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung Deaf, dumb and blind, you just keep on pretending That everyone's expendable, and no one has a real friend And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner Everything's done under the sun But you believe at heart everyone's a killer – Dogs – Pink Floyd What do you get for pretending the danger's not real? Meek and obedient, you follow the leader Down well-trodden corridors into the valley of steel – Sheep – Pink Floyd “While propaganda, disinformation, misinformation, and assassination have all played an important role in bringing the American democracy to heel, mind control holds its future. It is not surprising that under the label of national security the cryptocracy should seek to control minds. Nor can it come as a surprise that the cryptocracy (always in the vanguard of technology) should develop efficient methods of mind control. But that the legal machinery of the Constitution of the United States should become so fouled by the practitioners of psycho-politics can be experienced only with the outrage one feels at a case of rape, for it not only represents the rape of law and democratic values, but also the rape of heretofore inviolate recesses of man—his mind and soul.” ― Walter H. Bowart, Operation Mind Control “The veil of form that conceals the face of God can only be cut with the sword of an enlightened spirit.” – Manly P. Hall “The well informed student of occultism is one of the most universally learned of human beings. He must be acquainted with all of the important systems of world philosophy and religion, both Eastern and Western, and he must have a thorough understanding of ancient sciences and arts. There is no place for the superficial thinker in this field; and should he wander in by accident, it would be wise for him to depart in haste.” – Manly P. Hall “The true occultist wants nothing but wisdom.” – Manly P. Hall “I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change people’s consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman.” – Alan Moore |