If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

All politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office.

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't.

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

There is no force in the universe that can harm you, unless you allow it to.

Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

Don’t stop searching for opportunities until opportunities find you.

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

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