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He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the wild elephant goes.

Randolph Bourne

To be in possession of an absolute truth is to have a net of familiarity spread over the whole of eternity. There are no surprises and no unknowns.

Eric Hoffer

The satiated man and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

Socrates

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Voltaire

One must have apocalypse in one eye and the millennium in the other, and as you look out through that double vision, the third eye develops and sees the resolution of tragedy and conflict and the rest of it.

William Irwin Thompson

One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self: of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.

Nietzsche

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is Power.

Gregory Corso, Power

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

Ken Kesey

Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

Sheldon Kopp, If You Meet The Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!