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Man is not only a social being. Somewhere away from the crowd and the noise, he has to come to grips with himself, God and nature. In order to grow, he needs reserve and isolation and silence. In addition to his mechanical devices and machines, he needs to get back to nature, to camp out-of-doors by himself. Somewhere along the line, he has to be the maker of some of his own tools, as a shoemaker or a healer or a teacher.
The Rape of the Mind
Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo
So in the 15th and 16th hundreds, it pretended it was religion, and you had a huge flourishing of things like Rosicrucianism which pretended to be Christian. Swedenborgianism or whatever, which pretended to be Christian Kabbalah. Kabbalah, which pretended to be Christian and Jewish. Everybody thinks it's just Jewish, it was both, you have all these kinds of weird sects latching onto the major religion. Swabian pietism was Lutheranism by name, but it was hermeticism in practice.
The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay
Sovereign Nations
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
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