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"There was something about the idea that people putting layer upon layer to protect themselves from a potential infection, end up in a sense isolating themselves from one another. And I became obsessed with that."

"Oh, wouldnt it be great if I was crazy? Then the world would be okay."

"Its just like whats happening with us, like the past. The movie never changes. It cant change; but every time you see it, it seems different because youre different. You see different things."

"Games, games. Heres some games. Games you wanna get out. Ha! See, more games. Games, they vegitize you. If you play the games, youre voluntarily taking a tranquilizer...Drugs! Whatd they give you? Thorazine? Haldol? How much? Learn your drugs — know your doses. Its elementary..."

"Telephone call? Telephone call? Thats communication with the outside world. Doctors discretion. Nuh-uh. Look, hey — if all of these nuts could just make phone calls, they could spread insanity, oozing through telephone cables, oozing into the ears of all these poor sane people, infecting them. Wackos everywhere, a plague of madness. In fact, very few, very few of us here are actually mentally ill. Im not saying youre not mentally ill, for all I know, youre crazy as a loon. But thats not why youre here. Thats not why youre here. Thats not why youre here! Youre here because of the system."

"Theres the television. Its all right there — all right there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. Commercials! Were not productive anymore. We dont make things anymore. Its all automated. What are we for then? Were consumers. Yeah. Okay, okay. Buy a lot of stuff, youre a good citizen. But if you dont buy a lot of stuff, if you dont, what are you then, I ask you? What? Mentally ill. Fact, Jim, fact — if you dont buy things: toilet paper, new cars, computerized yo-yos, electrically-operated sexual devices, stereo systems with brain-implanted headphones, screwdrivers with miniature built-in radar devices, voice-activated computers..."

"I appeal to all pupils, students and young people, asking you to focus on the horizons that are opening up for you, and which you could only dream of a year ago. Our future will depend on your desire for education and moral values as well as on your entrepreneurial spirit."

"We have created a wealthy society with tens of millions of talented, resourceful individuals who play virtually no role whatsoever as citizens. Bringing these people in — with their networks of influence, their knowledge, and their resources — is the key to creating the capacity for shared intelligence that we need to solve our problems."

"We are shocked when we see educators, timid before criticism and confused about first principles, betray their trust. And we wonder what can be that philosophy of education which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool."

"I cant read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. I couldnt read the proletarian crap that came out in the 30s; again you had sentimentalism — the poor oppressed workers."

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"One of the first major steps in the direction of modern skepticism came through the victory of Occam over Aquinas in a controversy about language. The statement that modi essendi were replaced by modi significandi et intelligendi, or that ontological referents were abandoned in favor of pragmatic significations, describes broadly the change in philosophy which continues to our time. From Occam to Bacon, from Bacon to Hobbes, and from Hobbes to contemporary semanticists, the progression is clear: ideas become psychological figments, words become useful signs. ... To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of . Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world."