Quotes (via ChatGPT on alt thinkers it thinks i like:
1. Alan Watts: “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
2. Terence McKenna: “Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.”
3. Aldous Huxley: “Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.”
4. Ram Dass: “We’re all just walking each other home.”
5. Thich Nhat Hanh: “The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.”
6. Jiddu Krishnamurti: “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”
7. Carl Jung: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
8. Marshall McLuhan: “The medium is the message.”
9. Fritjof Capra: “Life is much more than the sum of its parts.”
10. Ervin Laszlo: “The universe is not a world of separate things and events but is a cosmos that is connected, coherent, and bears a profound resemblance to the visions held in the earliest spiritual traditions.”
11. Buckminster Fuller: “Don’t fight forces, use them.”
12. Rachel Carson: “In nature, nothing exists alone.”
13. Aldo Leopold: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
14. Wendell Berry: “The Earth is what we all have in common.”
15. David Abram: “The land speaks in many tongues, and only by inhabiting it can we learn its languages.”
16. Charles Eisenstein: “The more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.”
17. Jane Jacobs: “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
18. Joseph Campbell: “Follow your bliss, and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
19. Mikhail Bakhtin: “Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private property of the speaker’s intentions; it is populated—overpopulated—with the intentions of others.”
20. Gregory Bateson: “The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.”
21. Donna Haraway: “I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”
22. Susan Sontag: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
23. John Cage: “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
24. Brian Eno: “The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band.”
25. Robert Anton Wilson: “The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.”
26. Octavia Butler: “All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you.”
27. Ursula K. Le Guin: “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
28. Alan Moore: “Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
29. Neil Gaiman: “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten
30. Douglas Adams: “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
31. Grant Morrison: “We live in the stories we tell ourselves.”
32. Terence McKenna: “The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation.”
33. Timothy Leary: “Think for yourself and question authority.”
34. Daniel Quinn: “There is no one right way to live.”
35. Noam Chomsky: “Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
36. Nassim Nicholas Taleb: “The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
37. Rudolf Steiner: “Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”
38. William S. Burroughs: “Language is a virus from outer space.”
39. Hakim Bey: “The Temporary Autonomous Zone seeks to provide an intensity of time and space, a free enclave in which people can realize their desires.”
40. James Lovelock: “The Earth is indeed a living being, endowed with a capacity for regulating its climate and chemistry.”
41. Howard Zinn: “You can’t be neutral on a moving train.”
42. Derrick Jensen: “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
43. Vandana Shiva: “In nature’s economy, the currency is not money; it is life.”
44. Joanna Macy: “The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.”
45. David Bohm: “A change of meaning is a change of being.”
46. George Carlin: “The planet is fine. The people are f***ed.”
47. R. D. Laing: “Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”
48. Gilles Deleuze: “What is philosophy, if not a way of life?”