Jim Jones. James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the founder of Peoples Temple, a church-like social movement that committed mass suicide in its community of Jonestown, Guyana on 18 November 1978. Sourced[edit] My whole life I have suffered from poverty and have faced many disappointments and pain, like a man is used to. That is why I want to make other people happy and want them to feel at home. (1978). Translated back from Dutch to English, indirectly sourced, Messiahs: The vision and prophecies for the Second coming by John HogueThe young preacher once threw his Bible to the floor and yelled at his associates, "Too many people are looking at this instead of looking at me!
" Time Magazine, December 4, 1978, Messiah from the MidwestIf you're born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you're born in sin. But if you're born in socialism, you're not born in sin. About Jim Jones[edit] External links[edit] Karl Popper. This civilization has not yet fully recovered from the shock of its birth — the transition from the tribal or "enclosed society," with its submission to magicalforces, to the 'open society' which sets free the critical powers of man. Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is considered one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, and also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy. Quotes[edit] If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories...
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. Karl Marx. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German political philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for the current understanding of labor and its relation to capital, and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought.
He published numerous works during his lifetime, the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867–1894). Sourced[edit] Sorted chronologically We are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth… As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects.
History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. Peter Kropotkin. All belongs to all. All things are for all men ... All is for all! The history of humanthought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a moment of awakening. Prince Peter Alexeievich Kropotkin (Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин) (9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian geographer, zoologist, and one of Russia's foremost anarchist social philosophers, famous for promoting forms of anarchist communism.
Quotes[edit] We already know much! All things are for all. What we proclaim is The Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All! America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. The best exponent of anarchist philosophy in ancient Greece was Zeno (342-267 or 270 B.C.), from Crete, the founder of the Stoic philosophy, who distinctly opposed his conception of a free community without government to the state-Utopia of Plato.
Emma Goldman. Free love? As if love is anything but free! ... Love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. Emma Goldman (27 June 1869 – 14 May 1940) was a Russian-born American writer, feminist, anarchist, atheist and a close associate of Alexander Berkman. Quotes[edit] I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. Ladies and gentlemen, I came here to avoid as much as possible treading on your corns. What is Patriotism? Speech given in San Francisco, California What is patriotism? The Failure of Christianity (1913)[edit] Essay in the Journal Mother Earth (April 1913) Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul.
The Philosophy of Atheism (1916)[edit] Mikhail Bakunin. No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (Russian: Михаил Александрович Бакунин) (May 30, 1814 – July 1, 1876) was a Russian political philosopher, anarchist, and noted atheist. Quotes[edit] All people and all men are filled with a kind of premonition, and everyone whose vital organs are not paralyzed faces with shuddering expectation the approaching future which will utter the redeeming word.
Unity is the great goal toward which humanity moves irresistibly. What all other men are is of the greatest importance to me. I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it as the unique condition under which intelligence, dignity and human happiness can develop and grow... By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. FREEDOM, the realization of freedom: who can deny that this is what today heads the agenda of history?
Online Text. Max Stirner. I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Max Stirner (October 25, 1806 – June 26, 1856), born Johann Kaspar Schmidt, was a German philosopher who was a major influence on the nineteenth century development of ideas of nihilism, existentialism and individualist anarchism. Quotes[edit] Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. Whoever will be free must make himself free. The False Principle of our Education (1842)[edit] Max Stirner (1842) The False Principle of our Education. Because our time is struggling toward the word with which it may express its spirit, many names come to the fore and all make claim to being the right one. [...]
The Ego and Its Own (1844))[edit] Max Stirner (1844) The Ego and Its Own. What is not supposed to be my concern! G. K. Chesterton. There is a great man who makes every manfeel small. But the realgreat man is the man who makes every man feel great. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was a British writer whose prolific and diverse output included works of philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction. He has been called the "prince of paradox". See also: The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) The Ballad of the White Horse (1911) Quotes[edit] The center of every man's existence is a dream. The truth is that Tolstoy, with his immense genius, with his colossal faith, with his vast fearlessness and vast knowledge of life, is deficient in one faculty and one faculty alone.
Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction … for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it. Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. William Blake. William Blake (November 28 1757 – August 21 1827) was an English poet, Christian mystic, painter, printmaker, and engraver. Quotes[edit] If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. The archetype of the Creator is a familiar image in his work. Here, Blake depicts his demiurgic figure Urizen stooped in prayer, contemplating the world he has forged. The Song of Los is the third in a series of illuminated books painted by Blake and his wife, collectively known as the Continental Prophecies.
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.There Is No Natural Religion (1788)The true method of knowledge is experiment.All Religions are One (1788)There can be no Good Will. Blake's "A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows", an illustration to J. Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus.
Ram Dass. As far as I'm concerned we are all God That's the difference If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that. Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert on April 6, 1931) is an American spiritual teacher and author. Quotes[edit] I helppeople as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people… To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.
I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people… To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.As quoted at "Baba Ram Dass in the realm of Visionary Artist Martina Hoffmann: in the end there’s only one spirit and one humanness" at Elephant Journal (9 October 2010) It would be best not to impose a model too soon, because the model that exists in the west for these states is pathological, and the model that exists in the primitive cultures is mystical and religious.
Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.There are three stages in this journey that I have been on. Alan Watts. The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion. Quotes[edit] I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands. The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)[edit] There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. Robert Anton Wilson. There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already. Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American novelist, essayist, Absurdist philosopher, futurist, and guerilla ontologist, most famous for his satirical work (with Robert Shea), The Illuminatus!
Trilogy. Quotes[edit] There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled — by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. I'm a libertarian because I don't trust the people as much as anarchists do. I sometimes call myself a libertarian but that's only because most people don't know what anarchist means. I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions. Terence McKenna. There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules.
Terence Kemp McKenna (16 November 1946 – 3 April 2000) was an American writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist, who advocated paths of shamanism, and the use of hallucinogenic substances (primarily plant-based psychedelics) as a means of increasing many forms of human awareness. His ideas often revolve around his novelty theory of the universe. Quotes[edit] We cannot expect to cross the rainbow bridge through a good act of contrition; that will not be sufficient. There is no dualism in the world of light ...
One exists in eternity, one has become eternal ... Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together. Timothy Leary. Think for yourself and question authority. Timothy Francis Leary (22 October 1920 – 31 May 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, campaigner for psychedelic drug research and use, 1960s counterculture icon and computer software designer. He is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD.
During the 1960s, he coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out. " Quotes[edit] Don't take LSD unless you are very well prepared, unless you are specifically prepared to go out of your mind. When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly. If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people. We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history...
The universe is an intelligence test. The drug does not produce the transcendent experience. Harvard Law School Forum (1966)[edit] metal fire. Jack Kerouac. All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land. Jack Kerouac (12 March 1922 – 21 October 1969), born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, was an American novelist, poet and artist. He was a central figure among Beat Generation writers. Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. See also: Maggie Cassidy On the Road The Dharma Bums Quotes[edit] I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down. Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty? The house stood, and other men lived in it and were sheltered well in it...
You can't fight City Hall. As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing. The Town and the City (1950)[edit] On the Road (1957)[edit] The Dharma Bums (1958)[edit] Allen Ginsberg. Aldous Huxley. Noam Chomsky. Theodore Kaczynski. Derrick Jensen. Hunter S. Thompson. William S. Burroughs. Charles Bukowski. Guy Debord. Charles Manson. Albert Camus. Slavoj Žižek. Ronald David Laing. Michel Foucault. Jean Baudrillard. Jean-Paul Sartre. Friedrich Nietzsche. C. S. Lewis. Søren Kierkegaard.
Martin Heidegger. David Lynch. Waking Life.