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). 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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: 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. 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.
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. 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. 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]
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. 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] Allen Ginsberg. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,… Aldous Huxley. To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. ( 1894 - 07-26 – 1963 - 11-22 ) was a British author, most famous for his novel . Noam Chomsky. Theodore Kaczynski. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods and so forth... Theodore John Kaczynski, Ph.D., also known as the Unabomber (born 22 May 1942) is an American terrorist who attempted to fight against what he perceived as the evils of technological progress by sending mail bombs to various people over almost eighteen years, killing three and wounding 23.
He was the target of the FBI's most expensive manhunt ever. Derrick Jensen. Derrick Jensen (born 19 December 1960) is an American author and environmental activist who lives in Northern California. Sourced[edit] We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Hunter S. Thompson. I consider myself a road man for the lords of karma. Hunter S. William S. Burroughs. Most of the trouble in the world has been caused by ten to twenty percent of folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus.
William Seward Burroughs II (5 February 1914 – 2 August 1997), more commonly known as William S. Charles Bukowski. Guy Debord. Charles Manson. Prison's in your mind. Albert Camus. Albert Camus (November 7 1913 – January 4 1960) was a French Pied-Noir author, Absurdist philosopher and winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. Quotes[edit] 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.