Philosophy Diverse

 

                       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"