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Nice philosophy
May tolerate unlikely arguments,
But heaven admits no jest.

— John Ford Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629)

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Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

The Lover's Melancholy (1628)

Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.

The Lover's Melancholy (1628)

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear;
The sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

The Lady's Trial (1638)

Her words are trusty heralds to her mind.

Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.

The Lover's Melancholy (1628)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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