Paul John Moscatello

Mind control is built on lies and manipulation of attachment needs. Valerie Sinason

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If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own find...

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Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it. Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom

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Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker. Paul Valéry

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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses. Democritus

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Intelligence is noticing things that are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence also consists of ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns). Nassim N...

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Søren Kierkegaard

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow

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Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscl...

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege,...

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Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at th...

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Never judge someone’s character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day a...

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more lik...

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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth. Albert Einstein

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The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him a...

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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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If you want to know who controls you, look to who you are not allowed to criticize. Tacitus

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

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Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing “selves” that are worth expressing. Matthew Kelly

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The cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation. Terrence Mckenna

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