"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."
— Carl Sagan

"If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
— Woody Allen

"Belief is the death of intelligence."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness."
— Aleister Crowley

"The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without."
— Aleister Crowley

"Things are only impossible until they're not."
— Jean-Luc Picard

"...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable."
— Robert Anton Wilson

"...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. "
— Robert Anton Wilson (Cosmic Trigger I : Final Secret of the Illuminati)

"The menu is not the meal."
— Alan Wilson Watts

"We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself."
— Hazrat Inayat Khan

"The map is not the territory."
— Alfred Korzybski

"...reality is always plural and mutable."
— Robert Anton Wilson (Cosmic Trigger I : Final Secret of the Illuminati)

"We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself."
— Robert Anton Wilson (Cosmic Trigger I : Final Secret of the Illuminati)

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
— Nikola Telsa (The Problem of Increasing Human Energy)

"Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it? "
— Gene Rodenberry

"For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?"
— George Orwell

"Change happens very slow and very sudden."
— Dorothy Bryant (The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You)

"You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine."
— Thomas Traherne (Centuries Of Meditations)

"I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain."
— Rene Descartes

"Conscious Evolution

"Conscious evolution inspires in us a mysterious and humble awareness that we have been created by this awesome process of evolution and are now being transformed by it."
Barbara Marx Hubbard

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— Barbara Marx Hubbard

"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
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— Albert Einstein

"This is the one and only
firmament; therefore
it is the absolute world.
There is no other world.
The circle is complete.
I am living in Eternity.
The ways of this world
are the ways of Heaven."
— Allen Ginsberg

"One possibility is: G-d is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself."
— Lee Smolin

"One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain."
— René Descartes

"[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's."
— Samuel Butler

"Any landscape is a condition of the spirit."
— Henri Frederic Amiel

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
— Benjamin Disraeli