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"