Luke Rhinehart Quotes

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.

And it's his illusions about whatconstitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed

Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.

Love is one of society's many socially accepted forms of madness.

Psychoanalysis seemed an expensive, slow working, unreliable tranquilizer. If LSD were really to do whatAlpert and Leary claimed for it, all psychiatrists would be out of a job overnight.

One desire, my friends, one: to kill yourself. You must desire this. You must feel that a voyage of discovery is more important than all the little trips which the normal consumer self wants to buy.

It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.