Philosophy Diverse


Do you suit your mind to your surroundings or do you suit your
surroundings to your mind?              Kirkgard


Does our intuitional knowledge conform to objects or do objects
conform to our intuitional knowledge.   Kant


If no one said anything unless they knew what they were talking
about, a gastly hush would fall on the world.


Fear controls morality.                 Nietzsche


Man shapes his own future, as  well by what he does as by what he
fails to do.                            Nietzsche


I was terrified finding myself in the midst of nothingness and
myself nothing.                        Lepaldi


At bottom, these simpletons want a single thing: that nobody should
hurt them. Thus they try to please and gratify everyone. This
however is cowardice even if it can be called virtue. Virtue to
them is what makes tame.               Nietzsche



Consider the earth within the endless darkness of space in the
universe.  By way of comparison it is a tiny grain of sand; between
it and the next grain of sand it's own size there extends a mile or
more of emptiness; on the surface of this grain of sand there lives
a crawling, bewildered swarm of supposedly intelligent animals, who
for a moment have discovered knowledge. Neitzsche



With these drugs your perception is altered enough that you find
yourself looking out of completely strange eye holes.  All of us
have a great deal of our minds shut.  We're shut off from our own
world.  And these drugs seem to be the key to open these locked
doors.
     In this other world an ash tray may become a venus fly trap or
you may see eye lid movies of crystal cathedrals.
     But the visual stuff is just de'cor with LSD.  It's the
experience that counts.
     The experience of a barrier between the subjective and the
objective, the personal and the impersonal, the I and the not I
disappearing.....that feeling....
     Or can you remember when you were a child watching someone put
a pencil to a sheet of paper for the first time, to draw a
picture... and the line begins to grow into a nose! and it is not
just a pattern of graphite line on a sheet of paper but the very
miracle of creation itself and your own dreams flow into that
magical...growing...line, and it was not a picture but a
miracle....an experience...and now that you're soaring on LSD that
feeling is coming on again-only now the creation is of the entire
universe.
                                             Tom Wolfe
                                   "Electric Kool Aid Acid Test"