Jesse Lambert > Jesse's Quotes

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.”
― Terence McKenna

“Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.”
― Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”
― Banksy

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.”
― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Creativity takes courage. ”
― Henri Matisse