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Minds festooned with error, barnacled with bias, swollen with delusions of godhead.
Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.
I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded, whenever it becomes or seems to become necessary to have recourse to x, y, z, etc..
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Fanatics clouded by self-justification.
The irrational haunts the metaphysical.
Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
Madness it is to hope that human minds
can ever understand the Infinite
that comprehends Three Persons in One Being.
Be satisfied with quia unexplained,
O Human race! If you knew everything,
no need for Mary to have borne a son.
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
The conceptions of idle talk, of superfluities, and of vain ostentation, all designations of an irrational attitude without objective purpose, thus
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
discombobulation
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.
HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.
Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.
When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
The temerity to believe in nothing.
in some half-forgotten pesthole of twentieth-century case studies - filed under Cotard's syndrome - I found Amanda Bates and others of her kind, their brains torqued into denial of the very self.
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
This disease of curiosity.
Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained.
To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.
Insanity
a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
The religion of orgasm: utilitarianism projected into sex life; efficiency versus indolence; coition reduced to an obstacle to be got past as quickly as possible in order to reach an ecstatic explosion, the only true goal of love-making and of the universe.
Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.
In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason.
Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.
The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
The linking of rationality with mysticism, knowability with what is unknown, makes it a powerful fetish that offers its programmers and users alike a sense of empowerment, of sovereign subjectivity, that covers over-barely-a sense of profound ignorance.
dark heart of esoteric fuckery,
When one begins to philosophize one must be first a Spinozist. The soul must bathe itself in the aether of this single substance, in
which everything one has held dear is submerged.
The worldly life means a puzzle of 'wrong beliefs'.
There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's ... girls without skin.
Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.
Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been ... And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip ... at least until it proves otherwise.
Mysticism is the acquired immunodeficiency of regional ontologies; one catches it through unprotected thought intercourse with the stirred-up concept of the infinite.
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Mysticism was merely virility in a state of liquidation; sperm that had gone bad.
Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you - either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, for they heed not thy vexation.
What ignorance there is in human minds.
Something ELSE set your body in motion, sent an executive summary - almost an afterthought - to the homunculus behind your eyes ... that arrogant subroutine that thinks of itself as The person, mistakes correlation for causality, ... and thinks He moved the finger
The alchemical idea that each of us contains the whole universe and that we are, therefore, responsible for its well-being.
Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism ...
is "the denial of humanity's special status.
Indifference to all the refinements of life
it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.
An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria.
("The Chymist")
A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.
Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!
The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.
A mere society form of Atheism.
egocentric melodrama.
Today, religious fanatics and scientific rejectionists flourish under the protective wing of postmodernism, claiming that theirs is just one more valid viewpoint - a form of mental aikido (using the opponent's strength against him).
Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.
Robert's problem was familiar to Aquinas. He called it ignorantia affectata, cultivated ignorance.
The phantasmogoric philosophy, ineluctable bride of mediocrity.
Ancient, vicious, discredited ideas backed with adolescent war mania. It's
Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
It's called "concoctulary,"2 y'all.
Cynicism-the pus from a wound.
Islamism. It's an ideology. People are seeking to bring it about, but they differ in their approach.
The Gay Science, section 108
Eroticism. Though I doubt that they ever used this word, they embodied its mystical meaning as a quality of aliveness, a pathway to freedom
misanthropic society,
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
In indolent vacuity of thought.
It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.
Necrophilia to include the desire of certain people to control others - to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their unpredictability and originality, to keep them in line.
We believe that the health of a culture is measured in part by the vigor with which its immune system responds to nonsense.
The blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective kafkaesque
Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
Look not so deeply into words and letters; for this Mystery hath been hidden by the Alchemists. Compose the sevenfold into a fourfold regimen; and when thou hast understood thou mayest make symbols; but by playing child's games with symbols thou shalt never understand.
You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit
well, I have a thing about birds."
"What, a phobia?"
"Sort of."
"Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds."
"What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?
Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?
FANATICISM is, to superstition, what delirium is to fever, and fury to anger : he who has ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, and imaginations for prophecies, is an enthusiast ; and he, who sticks not at supporting his folly by murder, is a fanatic.
Rational thoughts made out of insane components.
an incantation of hatred.
An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.
A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.
Looking on oneself as something alien, forgetting the sight, remembering the gaze.
Sexual religion is the opiate of the supermenial.
BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.
I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.
Desire for normality; a longing to adapt to some recognized and general rule; a wish to be like everyone else, from the moment that being different meant being guilty.