The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.Carlos Castaneda
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.Simone Weil
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.Simone Weil
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.Michel de Montaigne
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.Arthur Schopenhauer
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.Arthur Schopenhauer
