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"The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge.
-William Blake
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"While, in centrally-planned economies, an individual or a select group of individuals must determine the distribution of resources, these planners will never have enough information to carry out this allocation reliably. The efficient exchange and use of resources can be maintained only through the price mechanism in free markets. The price mechanism serves to share and synchronize local and personal knowledge, allowing society's members to achieve diverse, complicated ends through a principle of spontaneous self-organization."
-Friedrich Hayek
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"For those who choose not to deepen, cleanse and expand their consciousness – being who you are, being present and bringing consciousness into the present moment is an entirely outlandish concept. In many cases, it will actually be disturbing. We see people like this all the time, frantic and neurotic, compulsively thinking and doing, filling every possible moment with some trivial rubbish that eats up any potentially unpleasant self-reflection. Compelling and vigorous diversionary tactics (overloading sense data) are deployed to avoid contact with self at all costs. The psychology of previous investment means that many feel they have too much to lose to risk jumping trains from unconsciousness to the sacred inner journey."

-unknown
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"If you trace the origins of the major monotheistic organized religions back far enough, it becomes clear that they were never designed to help the individual grow and develop. They were there to control land, dictate moral and social norms and separate the common man from his divine heritage. Higher consciousness, personal freedom and spiritual communion, far from being the core elements of their basic mystical teachings, were concepts firmly discouraged by the various priest castes. In their place, the disempowering qualities of submission, victimhood, repression and guilt became the preferred tenets of worshipful compliance."
-unknown
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"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked, 'Account overdrawn."
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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"She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence."
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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"Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than as individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism."
-Ron Paul
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"The concrete world has slipped through the meshes of the scientific net."

-Alfred North Whitehead
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Ayn Rand’s Ethics

Ayn Rand's Ethicsby Edward W. Younkins Ethics, a code of values to rationally guide man's choices and actions, is an objective, metaphysical necessity for a man's survival. A proper ethics gives pract...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:51:00 GMT

"So you think that money is the root of all evil?"

"So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Anconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produ...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:40:00 GMT

Taoteching

Tao Te Ching An English-Language Interpolation Part 1 1. The WayThe Way that can be experienced is not true;The world that can be constructed is not real.The Way manifests all that happens and...
Posted by on Wed, 28 May 2008 06:53:00 GMT

Poemandres

The Corpus Hermeticum I. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men translated by G.R.S. Mead Notes on the text: This is the most famous of the Hermetic documents, a revelation account describing a vision of ...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:31:00 GMT

The Gospel of Thomas

The Nag Hammadi Library The Gospel of Thomas Translated by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer (Visit the Gospel of Thomas Collection for additional information)   These are the secret saying...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:23:00 GMT

The Industrial Revolution and its Consequences

The following is full text of the Unabomber's Manifesto: ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- INTRODUCTION1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences ...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:15:00 GMT