Dare to Know Quotes

“We’ve made ourselves this fragile on purpose because we secretly want our destruction, because we want to participate in the turning of the cycles, we want to be the one who pushes the button that moves us into chaos. It happens at the end of every society.”
― James Kennedy, Dare to Know

“Liberated from the oppression of a mythos that had long ago stopped being genuine, and its associated ranks and codes and laws, a new equality and freedom break out. But never for long, because without a shared mythos, and without credible leaders to defend it, the society weakens.”
― James Kennedy, Dare to Know

“The world endures chaos until a new compelling mythos comes out of nowhere, another a bolt of inspiration, and brings us back into the Age of the Gods. But those will be different gods.”
― James Kennedy, Dare to Know

“Harmony can’t last so it has to be enforced. Social unanimity breaks down, so it must be manufactured. The mythos no longer feels alive and present, but mechanisms develop to honor it. To enforce these mechanisms, rank and power appear—between the ruler and the ruled, the priest and the congregation, the performer and the audience, the loved and the lover. In the name of perpetuating the mythos, its representation must be frozen in one enduring form.”
― James Kennedy, Dare to Know

“that all civilizations, large and small, pass through four distinct stages. How societies come together, and how they fall apart.”
― James Kennedy, Dare to Know

“maybe the occult is always necessary to midwife science into a paradigm shift. Maybe whenever the universe chooses someone through whom to reveal its secrets, the gates of the chthonic crack open too, and a lot of supernatural noise comes with it. And once that paradigm shift is accomplished, the occult can go away again.”
― James Kennedy, Dare to Know

“Do you fall in love with someone because you understand them? Not at nineteen. It's their otherness that draws you in. At nineteen you're collecting people. Trying on different ways of being.”
― James Kennedy, Dare to Know

“Do you fall in love with someone because you understand them? Not at nineteen. It's their otherness that draws you in. At nineteen you're collecting people. Trying on different ways of being.”
― James Kennedy, Dare to Know

“without a shared mythos, and without credible leaders to defend it, the society weakens. The original mythos becomes corrupted, degraded. Language is debased. Equality leads to a free-for-all. Communication breaks down. With no shared mythos, nobody can agree on even the basic premises of life. All that remains of the exhausted society are three things: a mythos nobody seriously believes in anymore, rituals nobody earnestly participates in anymore, and skepticism. And skepticism alone can’t sustain anything.”
― James Kennedy, Dare to Know

“That’s when the boys grew out of toddlers who adored me because they didn’t know any better into teenagers who understood exactly who I was.”
― James Kennedy, Dare to Know