I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.

The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.