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Epistemology, Plato













At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided......

— Herman Melville,Moby Dick, Cap. XXII

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

— William Shakespeare,Macbeth,Act V,scene V

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

— Aldous Huxley, conference at California Medical School, 1961

One is all for religion until one visits a really religious country. Then one is all for drains, machinery, and the minimum wage.